Noah Baetge discovered a talent for music while attending Olympic College and decided music might make good career, a decision confirmed by receiving the Mary Baker Russell Music Scholarship at Pacific Lutheran University.  He is currently preparing to finish his Bachelor of Music at PLU, focused on Vocal Performance, and has sung in the Choir of the West and the Choral Union.  He has also sung with the Tacoma Master Chorale and Choral Arts Northwest.  At PLU, opera took a guiding hand in his career, steering him towards Seattle Opera, where he is a member of the regular chorus and has sung in Parsifal, Lohengrin, Rigoletto, Manon Lescaut, Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Die Fledermaus as well as the upcoming productions of Cosi fan tutti and Macbeth.  His first principal role was Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Skagit Opera in March 2005.  He has performed Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro in concert with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra and Arcadio in previews of Florencia en al Amazonas with the Seattle Opera Guild.  Mr. Baetge has recently accepted an offer to join the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program beginning in October of 2006, and has also won the MET District competition and will be moving on to the Regional competition on February 12^th.  This is Mr. Baetge’s debut with the Concert Opera of Seattle.