Stuart Howe (born July 19, 1967) is a Canadian operatic tenor who has become particularly noted for his interpretation of the heroic roles of Rossini and Donizetti. Early life Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada and raised in the countryside along the Saint John River, Stuart attended rural elementary and junior high schools before graduating from St. Malachy's Memorial High School in 1985. At the age of fourteen, Howe began what became a highly successful and well known music entertainment company in the Canadian Maritimes. Due to his age, his family had to take turns driving his vans to and from jobs, until he was able to obtain a driver's licence at sixteen. 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. Following high school he attended the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton briefly, before leaving to pursue his true ambition of the time: broadcasting. His talent was quickly recognized and he landed his first job at CFBC in Saint John. His radio career progressed and took him to Prince Edward Island, British Columbia and finally to Alberta. Vocal discovery North of Edmonton, Alberta in the city of Fort McMurray, Howe discovered his singing talent through a series of unexpected events. Until this time, he had not sung or participated in any theatrical pursuits of any kind. 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. While enrolled, he met noted American voice teacher Richard Miller, who encouraged Stuart to devote his talent to opera alone and in the fall of 1993, Stuart moved to Oberlin, Ohio for a two-year Performance Diploma in voice – a curriculum exception created specifically for him by the school at Miller's request. 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. In numerous interviews, Howe has likened his entering the opera world to that of "being dropped on to a strange planet, with a