echt versus ersatz

Vesselina Kasarova relates to the Associated Press the trials and tribulations of an honest-to-god opera career, while over at The Telegraph, Steve Silverman suggests Katherine Jenkins stop claiming she has one...or will have one...whatever. Normally this would go without saying, but just having seen Susan Boyle described elsewhere in the mainstream media as an "opera singer" -- a claim I doubt Susan Boyle herself would make -- well...you know.