I don't have any problem with liking both Dave Burland AND Luciano Pavarotti - what's to dislike? I'm no fan of classical singers performing music outside their sphere - such as jazz or folk - any more than I would like to hear most folk singers attempting the classical repertoire. But I loved operatic singing from the very first moment I heard it as a small child (78rpm shellac records played on my grandparents' old wind-up gramophone) and it has a place for me alongside all the other music I love - folk, blues, classical, ragtime, jazz, rock'n roll. Classical singing may be many things but pretentious it ain't - it's a hard craft requiring rigorous training and application, like most good music.