Last night, after having sat through nearly three hours of torture at the Hohum Cultural Society’s “production” of Verdi’s “Aida”, I decided to have a few stiff whiskeys at “Tom’s Irish Pub” to recover. I cannot find words to describe what I have felt as a cruel joke on the citizens of Hohum. It is obvious that this group has never had any experience in producing an opera. The “singers” should have tried out their “talents” on people with good hearing before the performance rather than make the public suffer… As for the “orchestra”, their performance is below comment. In the future I recommend they put on an operatic performance of “Mickey Mouse and Minnie”. The two leading singers in “Aïda” sounded just like them. Jack Sokemgood