"a brilliant collaboration of visual artist, baroque orchestra and wonderful singers; and the fact that it was in a slate quarry – it was magical. And the music is beautiful. That really stood out as a different and important event……’ Olive Braiden"

"But while she’s been to the opera at Verona and the Met, nothing beats Opera Theatre Company’s performance she attended last August in the quarry on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry…… Kate Holmquist"

"And there was an aura of intangibility and fragility that attached itself to the experience of music in such strangely spectacular surroundings, induced perhaps by the contrasting scale of visual image and sound.’"

"was strangely transfixing, an event whose atmosphere was even added to by persistent drizzle.’"

"‘Opera Theatre Company (OTC), the small –scale modern touring ensemble, is one of Ireland’s brightest hidden gems. Variously entertaining, charming, challenging or experimental, an OTC show never fails to excite and there is always something appealingly anti-Establishment about its approach to things…………….An andtidote to the serious and predictable offerings from larger companies…………their most adventurous production to date, Stabat Mater "