Seven angels have fallen through space and time for so long, they have forgotten why. Coming to rest on a desert, they imagine the creation of a legendary garden that once flourished there and its destruction from greed and neglect. Read more …
Moving and magical, Seven Angels interprets the themes of Milton’s poetic masterpiece Paradise Lost for an audience facing up to the challenges of a changing climate.
Featuring a live chamber orchestra, this is the eagerly-awaited opera from Luke Bedford, one of the UK’s leading young composers.
John Fulljames's production and Tadasu Takamine's designs – a mad scattering of books are the metaphorical "resource", consumed to near-extinction by a wasteful King and Queen and their spoilt son, the Prince – are what makes it come alive to a limited extent, though never so convincingly as that brief animated point in the second act where a crisis summit focuses more angrily on the issues.
Tramway, Glasgow from Tuesday June 28, 2011, until Wednesday June 29, 2011. More info: www.tramway.org
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