Sharon Abreu

Soprano

Sharon Abreu was singing harmony by the age of three. When she got a little older, she was a soloist for the Puccini Heroines lecture series at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.

Sharon was selected to sing in an audience-attended master class with Metropolitan Opera soprano Licia Albanese, who said of Sharon’s “O mio babbino caro”, “This is Puccini!” Sharon performed as “Waffle from Belgium” in the improv comedy vocal quintet Whatever4 at the New York Buskers Fare and the Streets Ahead Festival in England. She sang for three years with the professional children’s opera company Opera Enterprise, and has sung lead roles in several operas including Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte.

On Orcas Island, Sharon has been a guest soloist with the Orcas Choral Society and the Olga Symphony. She presented a full classical voice concert at the Orcas Center in 2007 and starred in the musical The Taffetas at Orcas Center and in Summer Stock at the Bellingham Ferry Terminal in 2002. Sharon has sung in the Night of the Living Divas concerts and One World benefit concerts for The Funhouse, the local nonprofit children’s science and activity center, at Orcas Center.

Sharon has performed at Lopez Center for Martin Luther King Day, the first KLOI benefit concert, and in the Actors Theater of Orcas Island production of The Vagina Monologues.

In November 2008, Sharon was the soprano soloist for Mozart’s Regina Coeli in a gala celebration of 135 years of choral singing at New York University.

In February 2009, she was the soprano soloist for Mozart’s Vespers in Seattle with Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers.

She has sung for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Mount Vernon and the Stanwood Historical Society annual benefit dinner. Sharon has performed in concert with legendary folksinger Pete Seeger, at the Northwest Folk Life Festival in Seattle, the United Nations in New York, U.N. World Environment Day in San Francisco, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa.