...not my cuppa tea.

Here's a different type of woman singer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29kiM7C3txU

I had the privilege of working for a conductor who worked with Angela. Lovely singer.

In the world of Opera, the perfect is the enemy of the good.

To many this performance would be better than good. When first I listened I was greatly tempted by the emotion, which seems powerful.

When second I listened after having considered that there were questions of pitch, I found examples. Although the parameters are very narrow. Perhaps two cents is all that is allowed.

Most of the music world is overtaken by popular taste and a criteria that finds no problem with singers, or instrumentalist that are unable to put TWO NOTES together even close to the pitch. By close, I mean perhaps twenty cents.

A trained musician would call them incompetent. There are examples posted here regularly.

By comparison, if a surgeon or airline pilot performed their functions within the equivalent of the musical two cents, you would say that is within the limits of human perfection.

If either were only within twenty cents, the surgeon would be sued for malpractice and the airline pilot would be dead in a pile of wreckage.

This performance is much much closer to the two cent limit. That may be faint praise.

We are only human after all.