Noah Stewart: 'I haven't even started yet'

Tenor Noah Stewart has become the first black musician to top the classical chart. Ad-land dream or the real deal?I so wanted to be able to diss Noah Stewart, classical music's latest "sensation". For a start, his record company, Universal, is promoting him as the "first modern opera star". (Callas, Pavarotti, Domingo anyone?) Then there is the "first black artist to top the classical music charts" factor, which Stewart became this week; a landmark of sorts, but a largely meaningless claim given...

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