Stuart Howe

Despite these obstacles, Howe was able to build the company into the largest of its kind in Atlantic Canada and his various inventions and innovations have become mainstream in the mobile disc jockey industry today.

Not without substantial risk, he ended his successful radio career and began the challenge of returning to school as a mature student to begin vocal training, first attending Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton where he obtained a diploma in Music Theatre.

After completing this diploma at Oberlin, Stuart spent two more years studying the finer details of operatic performance with John Moriarty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, before moving to Germany to pursue his career.

When Howe made his European debut as Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore in Oporto, Portugal in November 1997, he had been given only three weeks prior to the opening performance to prepare.

Despite being based in the somewhat smaller Canadian market, Howe was still able to take on major tenor roles of all kinds including those in Lakmé, Falstaff, Don Pasquale, Lucia di Lammermoor, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, La Fille du Régiment, Gianni Schicchi, The Bartered Bride, Die Fledermaus, Rossini's William Tell, Verdi's Attila, Lehár's The Merry Widow, Susannah by Carlisle Floyd, Bellini's La Straniera, Romberg's The Student Prince, Rota's The Italian Straw Hat and many others.

Prior to this debut, he also created the extensive lead role of John Higgs for Pacific Opera Victoria's critically acclaimed world premier of Erewhon from Canadian composer Louis Applebaum and librettist Mavor Moore.

For a singer who approached the career of opera in a non traditional way and then with such a varied repertoire, Howe has been embraced by audiences and has been a consistent favorite of the media, who have praised him at every opportunity.

This led to his being featured in countless magazine and newspaper articles, as well as innumerable radio and television interviews and performances, resulting in a somewhat larger notoriety than usually afforded opera singers in Canada.