Bass Noah Lauer is in his first year of the Master of Music in Voice Performance program at the IU Jacobs School of Music, where he studies with Peter Volpe. The Magic Flute is Lauer’s first production at Jacobs. He has previously performed with Chamber Opera Chicago as a sailor and soloist in a new musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, which toured the United Kingdom and Canada; as Charlie in the children’s opera Miracle!; and with the ensemble in Amahl and the Night Visitors. Other performances include Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Grandpa Moss in The Tender Land, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, and The Gondoliers at Luther College and the title role in The King and I , Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors, Captain Von Trapp in Sound of Music, Captain Keller in The Miracle Worker, Warner in Legally Blonde, and Les Misérables at Theatre Cedar Rapids. He placed second at the National Association of Teachers of Singing Central Regional Competition