Reply #48: Caruso? I'd vote for Placido Domingo. [View All]

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Among the living.

Jerry Hadley, another tenor who did both opera and musicals, left us not too many weeks ago, sadly, by his own hand.

I saw an article on Huffington Post that said that opera singers are drinking too much, doing illegal drugs, and abusing cortisone, like movie stars and sports stars. Destroying their bodies and voices due to the pressure.

How terribly sad. And the music schools are training all the individuality out of musicians, whether singers or instrumentalists. How dare you put in a turn or a trill that wasn't written there!!!