Baritone

Benjamin D. Laur is an active baritone soloist in stage productions and song recitals, currently from Bowling Green, OH. He has recently performed as King Hildebrand in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Princess Ida and as Aeneas in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas with the Bowling Green State University Opera Theatre, Dandini in John Davies’ The Billy Goats Gruff with the Bowling Green Children’s Opera Theatre, as bass soloist in Handel’s The Messiah, as Giuseppe in Verdi’s La Traviata with the Toledo Opera and as Hercules in Handel’s Hercules with the Bowling Green State University Opera Theatre. Other performed roles include Don Giovanni in Mozart’s opera of the same name, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and Fred/Petrucchio in Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate. Laur obtained his Bachelor in Music, Voice Performance at Central Michigan University, where he was the recipient of the 2009 R. Cedric Colness Vocal Award and the 2009 CMU Summer Scholars Award. He is currently a candidate for the Master in Music Performance, Vocal Performance, at Bowling Green State University, where he is also a graduate teaching assistant and private voice instructor. Upcoming engagements include the role of Baron Cascada in Lehar’s The Merry Widow with the BGSU Opera Theatre.