Seriously, though, can Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins really sing opera?

It's a curious line of inquiry everyone who has heard her asks. Eventually.

And a lot of the times that question gets posited--"Is Kath Jenkins truly capable of singing opera?"--it is the answers that ain't fair.

Classical music snobs are a notoriously hard bunch to please. Yes.

On the Internet, proper, they can be downright cruel.

(OK, so maybe 'catty' is better word to describe something like this...)

As a classical music outlet here on the internet, well, Classicalite.com is here to tell you, once and for all: "Yes, Virginia, there is a corner of it--the Internet, proper, that is--where Katherine Jenkins is, in fact, a real opera singer."

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