There's a spotlight of a different kind for Parliament's Speaker Lockwood Smith.
The trained opera singer will be performing a duet with Will Martin and the New Zealand Pops Orchestra later this month at the Auckland Town Hall.
He's had a 20 year break from singing after "wrecking" his voice.
His last big role - apart from reprimanding errant MPs - was Figaro in the Marriage of Figaro.
But Dr Smith says he now enjoys the more popular stuff, so he likes the idea of the Pops Orchestra.
