I am often surprised at what I like on first exposure. It is sort of like the saying "You should never see how sausage is made." The list of things I don't like is endless but so is the list of things I do.

I think the issue with opera singers is more one of the material than the voice. I once heard an operatic tenor singing Buffy St Marie's song "Up Where We Belong". It sounded great by Jennifer Warnes but stilted and never quite in key by the tenor.(A problem I have with all operatic voices outside of the opera setting)

I often quote Jean Redpath in this regard. "I have a too highly refined sense of the ridiculous to truly appreciate opera."

Shakespeare on the other hand has to be heard rather than read.

Don