[Galway Independent, 1 March 2006]

Modern myth and tabloids would have one believe that today's eleven-year-old boy is a crack smoking, car-jacking, father-of-several whose closest contact with music is an ear-bashing bootlegged download of Marilyn Manson. In the 'good old days' it was all so different, of course, and Opera Theatre Company bring an example of one particularly precocious pre-teen's pastimes to the Town Hall stage in a sprightly version of 'Apollo and Hyacinthus'.