Talk:Operatic pop

is a musical genre!!! no subgenere

It's called classical crossover. It is an official genre. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nottedeluce (talk • contribs) 21:16, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with your recent page move from “operatic pop” to “classical crossover (musical genre)” and your grammatically incorrect additions to the lead. There is already a subsection of the article on Crossover (music) about classical crossover, which is where users go when they type "Classical crossover" into the search field. That section is far more substantive than this entire article. This article was never intended to be about "Classical crossover" in general. By changing the whole focus of the article, you have made this page redundant and in some ways incorrect.

Actual "Classical crossover" is a much broader field than “operatic pop” or “popera” that includes both classical musicians/singers performing pop music and pop singers/musicians performing classical music. Operatic pop, on the other hand, deals only with 1) opera rather than classical music in general and 2) specifically pop music that has in some way been influenced by operatic music. These are not the same thing. You have entirely changed the whole focus of the page. You should write your own article on “Classical crossover (musical genre)” instead of hijacking this article on a different topic. I am changing it back to the actual topic/name this article is supposed to be about. Rmm413 (talk) 22:33, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Pavarotti?

Should be Pavarotti included? 79.167.114.131 (talk) 16:27, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and added him. Looking at various sources, he is often mentioned as one of the foremost operatic pop or popera singers (although, of course, his main career was as an actual opera singer). Rmm413 (talk) 11:23, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Michael Jackson?

Why is Michael Jackson in this list? He isn't associated with classical or crossover any bit. I don't even know any of his songs or singing referring to classical.
At least to me, Freddie Mercury was more classical-oriented. He certainly released classical, not sure if he ever did it solo. 85.217.41.33 (talk) 19:18, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Whoever removed the list...

... ought to PUT UP the said "category" for the artists and not just delete stuff without thinking!! Obviously the remover was too lazy and just deleted everything but didn't bother putting up a category. -andy 77.7.15.132 (talk) 12:22, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Is the list of operatic pop singers helpful?

The first sentence of the current definition of operatic pop reads, "Operatic pop is a subgenre of pop music that is performed in an operatic style, or a song, theme or motif from classical music stylized as pop." The definition seems to describe the genre well enough, but including a list of singers under this genre is subjective at best, especially when their individual repertoires may included more than just operatic pop. How many classical numbers must a singer have in her/his repertoire? Or how "operatic" sounding should a singer of non-classical pop songs be to be classified as an operatic pop singer? The genre definition makes room for both of these approaches (e.g., classical songs sung by a pop singer, or pop songs sung in an operatic voice), but it seems to me that neither a list of songs, nor a list of singers helps to clarify the definition.

Take Jackie Evancho for example. She is known for singing in a lovely bel-canto-ish style, and has performed pieces such as Nessun Dorma and O mio babbino caro, but lately has shifted to songs from the movies. What genre does she belong to now? Renee Fleming sings part time in a rock band. She sang "In a Sentimental Mood," an old jazz standard, and "Somewhere" with Placido Domingo; should they both be added to the list? Susan Boyle just released an album of show tunes? Is she in or out? Hollie Steel's career has barely begun, so who knows what her "genre" is?

It seems to me that the definition already given explains the term well enough, and that the list of singers should be deleted. But if there is a need for examples, then maybe it would be better to decide on just a few singers whose entire repertoire and singing style best combine as clear and consistent examples of the operatic pop genre. What do you think? McNoodly (talk) 11:53, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Lana Del Rey?

Seems out of place to have her on this list, isn't she more just straight up pop? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nablais (talk • contribs) 18:50, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Article Is Incorrect

This article has incorrect information. The term popera or operatic pop is an alternate name given to the Classical Crossover genre. These two links contain the correct information about the genre (http://www.classical-crossover.co.uk/help/utrophy-faq/142.html and http://www.classical-crossover.co.uk/help/disclaimer/143.html). Please use them to make the necessary corrections to this Wikipedia article.

Also, some of the artists listed in this Wikipedia article are incorrect. The following links are to help correct that.

Female classical crossover vocalists (http://www.classical-crossover.co.uk/artprofiles/female-vocalists.html)

Male classical crossover vocalists (http://www.classical-crossover.co.uk/artprofiles/male-vocalists.html)

Vocal groups in the classical crossover genre (http://www.classical-crossover.co.uk/artprofiles/vocal-groups.html)

Choirs in the classical crossover genre (http://www.classical-crossover.co.uk/artprofiles/choirs.html) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.146.50.3 (talk) 19:26, 26 August 2019 (UTC)