Homepage News Reviews - Acts - Shows - Screen - Radio - Books - Clubs Interviews Awards 2006 Edinburgh 2005 - Reviews - Blog - Previews Features Archive Awards 2005 Edinburgh 2004: - Previews - Shows - Diary Guestbook Forum © Emporium Of Mirth 2004 Editor: Lauren Murphy Reporters: Fiona Wilkie Natalie Joanne	Emporium of Mirth Kombat Opera Kombat Opera really shouldn’t work… But it does. Singing silly songs in an opera style is always going to be funny, and it kinda makes you wonder why nobody’s done it before. Richard Thomas is a fantastic musician and his sidekick Hayley is clearly a fantastic sport, using her opera singing powers for crimes against the medium (CF. “Outreach”, a song with the lyrics: “We are bringing opera to a wider audience / So they can hate it as well”). Opera may seem like an easy target, but as this particular act of ridicule is undertaken by two people whose careers have heavily relied on the form, it seems a lot more real, informed and in a lot of ways, affectionate. You’ll laugh, but you probably shouldn’t Reviewed by Lauren RSS  Printable version	Visit our Siamese Twin Sister Site!