I know this will considered a heresy and I'm sorry but I just hate the sound of 'classically trained' singer - tenors, sopranos and the like. They sound so unnatural and forced and have the effect on me like chalk squeaking on a blackboard. And why do they have to affect such silly accents such as pronouncing 'bosum'as 'boo'sum'and 'hill' as 'heel'. And then there's that silly r rolling which sounds like that parody of a Scot from the Goon Show. Then there the unctious backing they always seem to require. Pretentious, precious of course: what all cultured people should like. When they attempt folk music the result is really quite ridiculous. OK, it may be techically clever to do what they do,rather like ultra high speed banjo playing, but to my ears that doesn't necessarily sound pleasant. Yes, I'd rather listen to Dave Burland and Christine Kidd than Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland.
Doc John
PS I think Shakespeare's plays are a verbose, incomprehensible, badly researched pantomine too.
PPS The Philistines had a bad press