Seven Angels - review

CBSO Centre, BirminghamThe basic idea of Seven Angels, the first opera by Luke Bedford, commissioned jointly by The Opera Group and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is plausible enough. Glyn Maxwell's libretto takes Milton's Paradise Lost as its starting point, imagining a group of seven angels, outcasts from heaven, overlooked by Milton and forgotten by history, who have fallen through space and landed in a desert, which they realise was once a beautiful garden. Piece by piece they construct...

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