Opera Chic -- a Cilea fan -- has always found Catalani's work to be amazingly cheesy, La Wally a perfect example of the composer's banality (yes, Toscanini loved his stuff: even the masters have lapses of taste sometimes). It doesn't really matter who's singing Catalani's music, not even Maria or Renata can save him from his lowbrow self.
This beery commercial only validates OC's admitted bias.