The Opera Project

08/28/2021

$10 Billion+ Settlement Announced!

04/03/2020

The group are singing at Monteverdi's grave. I planned to meet them there at St. Rocco but got a little lost.
When I arrived I couldn't find them so I missed the singing. As you can see, it was very cold that day.

TENET Vocal Artists January 7, 2020 Venice, Italy Performers Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, sopranos Virginia Warnken Kelsey, mezzo-soprano Jason McStoots,...

03/12/2017

11/14/2016

St Andrews Episcopal Church - Corner of Main and York Streets, Lambertville, New Jersey

11/14/2016

The next concert...

03/01/2016

Our next concert...

On Saturday November 26th at 7:30 pm, the Harvest Home Concert - An Evening of Opera Arias and Art Songs and Duets, will be held at St. Andrew’s Church, 50 York Street Lambertville, New Jersey.

12/23/2015

Created by Karen Mintz.

05/25/2015

Award and Grant winners for the 2014-2015 season.

02/28/2015

Photo collection

09/26/2014

After acting and directing in community theater for many years, by the late 1970’s Don Sheasley became an operatic baritone and continues to please audience with his “Verdi” vocal style at 80 years old.
While working as a high school English teacher and as a golf coach, for more than thirty five years he also performed most of the baritone operatic roles in opera companies throughout the New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia regions. The first of such roles was with the Princeton University Opera Theater in 1978. Continuing with this company in several major baritone parts, Don’s Lincoln Center debut was with this company in 1982 where he sung the part of Don Pizarro in Beethoven’s Fidelio.

At the height of his career Don sang Rigoletto, Scarpia, Tonio and other roles with the Trenton Civic Opera. He reprised his Tonio role with the Boheme Opera, adding the Alfio role before joining the Piccolo Opera with a Count DeLuna performance among others. After singing several major roles with the Opera Festival in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, he then joined the Berks Grand Opera in Reading, PennsylvaniaA, as Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

Don was regarded a stalwart of Opera International in the 1990’s and appeared at Merkin Hall and Alice Tully Hall in concert and oratorio settings for Hollywood composer Phil Springer. During that time he also sang with with Jersey Lyric Opera, the Baroque Orchestra of NJ, Concert Opera of NJ, as well as the Little Opera of NJ, the Verismo Opera and the Regina Opera.

In recent times Don produced and led a cast of eight in a World Concert Premiere of his long-time collaborator and accompanist Dr. Dennis Hyams’ opera “The Golden Arrow”. In addition to being heard as a regular soloist at the Rossmoor Community Church in Monroe, New Jersey, Don now performs in various concerts with the Baroque Orchestra of NJ, and regularly for the Opera Project in Hunterdon County, with the Eastern Opera Company in Morris County, and in concerts throughout the state.
In addition to his singing, Don contributes his formidable vocal talents as a reader for Learning Ally, a non-profit organization supporting those with learning difficulties and also as a reviewer for 55PLUS programs. He continues actively to encourage singers old and young to be involved in the Operatic arts.