About Susanna
Soprano Susanna R. Lauer, a native of Washington, D.C., graduated from the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at Catholic University with a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Performance, studying under Mrs. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios.
She graduated with a Masters in Vocal Performance from West Virginia University as a student of Cynthia Conner-Bess. Ms. Lauer finished an intense summer institute with Mr. Neil Semer in Germany. She attended programs at Boston University at Tanglewood and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria where she performed the role of Musetta in excerpts from La Bohème at concerts in Vienna and Graz.
Ms. Lauer has had the opportunity to perform as Mrs. Nolan in The Medium and Lady Billows in Albert Herring. She also sang the role Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. She has won first place awards at competitions held by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), where she is a full-fledged member, and the Folger Shakespeare Theater.
She became focused on a musical career after singing the title role in the Washington Opera’s North American premier of Brundibar, a children’s opera, when she was just 16 years old. Ms. Lauer enjoys working with young people, teaching privately, and directing musicals.
Ms. Lauer has been working and teaching in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina for the last year and is excited to be back in her hometown of Washington DC and its energized opera scene.