{"id":5119,"date":"2014-07-24T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceidiog.com\/pr\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2019-04-24T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T09:57:36","slug":"llangollen-eisteddfod-reminds-opera-star-noah-stewart-early-chorister-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceidiog.com\/pr\/news\/llangollen-eisteddfod-reminds-opera-star-noah-stewart-early-chorister-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Llangollen Eisteddfod reminds opera star Noah Stewart early chorister days"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMERICAN opera star Noah Stewart said making a triumphant return visit to Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod to watch the day\u2019s young performers in action reminded him of his own early days as a chorister.<\/p>\n

Noah, who gave a performance from the Eisteddfod stage at an evening concert which won him a standing ovation, was back the following morning to receive the rare honour of being chosen as the festival\u2019s Day President.<\/p>\n

\"Noah<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking about what this meant to him, he said: \u201cI performed at Llangollen for the first time last year and to come back this year, especially as Day President, has been truly special for me.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been 12 months since then but it\u2019s actually like I\u2019ve never been away. It still has all the same energy and excitement I saw first last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing to Llangollen reminds me of my own early days as a chorister.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was at the time I was studying to be an engineer back home in New York City and I joined a junior choir.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my second year we started to do competitions and the choir director told me he had seen something special in me, and that\u2019s where my solo singing began.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until then that I realised that you could combine music and travelling and make it a career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noah added: \u201cI fell in love with music because it gave me a connection that I didn\u2019t get through science and engineering.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I enjoy other styles of music, my first love is classical music and it was through classical music I got my first big break.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was with the San Francisco Opera when I was asked to fill in for the tenor in the role of McDuff in Verdi\u2019s Macbeth. From there I went on to start my career as a solo artist in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noah said he was a great honour to be the Eisteddfod\u2019s Day President.<\/p>\n

\"noah<\/a><\/p>\n

He explained: \u201cWhen I heard I was being asked to do it I went crazy because I just love the excitement, colour and atmosphere of peacefulness of the festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also look forward to coming back to Wales because the people are so warm and open and have such a great appreciation of culture, which is what the Eisteddfod is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noah went up on stage to be introduced to the audience in the pavilion and gave a powerful performance of the rousing American standard Without a Song.<\/p>\n

He was presented with flowers by seven-year-old Annie Roberts from Trevor, a pupil of Ysgol Garth, who said: \u201cI enjoyed walking on the stage, his singing is really good.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love singing and I really like One Direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noah was trained at the Juilliard School in New York and at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

His debut album became a major success in the UK, topping the classical charts for seven weeks.<\/p>\n

In 2010 he made a critically-lauded debut at Covent Garden as Hassan in Judith Wier\u2019s Miss Fortune, a role he premiered at the Bregenzer Festpiele in 2011.<\/p>\n

He has gained many awards and honours including first prize in the Florida Grand Opera competition and he is in constant demand to take part in operas sand concerts in the UK and around the world.<\/p>\n

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