I like the sound of opera singers when they sing opera, but not when they sing folk music. Last year I started to go to Metropolitan Opera rebroadcasts at a cineplex near me. It's a genr, of music I've had little chance to listen to except when singers appeared on TV variety shows, like the Ed Sullivan Show, when I was a child. At that time I hated their sound: screeching or shouting, I thought. Over the last several years I've found myself in groups of people that included opera fans and decided, in my early 60s, to try to find out why. However, I don't like it when opera singers sing folk songs as if they were songs in an opera. I've heard this in some of the public television specials along the lines of The Three Tenors. That does not work for me. Opera music will never be my favorite. I'm definitely a folkie. Also, when I see the operas it helps that the acting is much better than I had expected and that there are English subtitles. I'm even beginning to think of some opera singers as my favorites in that genre, but I probably like them because of their acting since I am a just learning about the sounds.