Everybody is entitled to their opinion but as a performer from that very concert I feel that your comment about the soprano soloist comes out of ignorance. It's one thing if you don't like the soprano sound in general but to degrade someone's performance based on that is wrong. Both of the soloist did top-notch performances.

"Ignorance" doesn't seem to really be the word you're looking for here; I think you're just accusing me of being unrefined. Which is fair, I suppose, if one defines a refined ear as "enjoying opera". I'm quite aware of the style, and as I pointed out, the soprano soloist was an excellent example of the genre.

But I don't like that sound, and I didn't like the sound of those parts of the performance. In keeping with a main mission of this blog---giving me practice articulating the reasons why I like or dislike things---I posted about it. Anyone's free to disagree with me; God knows I've never claimed to be an actual authority on music, art, theatre, or most of the other things I review here (linguistics excepted).

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