Seven Angels

Seven Angels have fallen through space and time for so long that they have forgotten why. Coming to rest in a desert landscape, they imagine the creation of a legendary garden that once flourished there but was destroyed by greed and neglect.
The English composer Luke Bedford based his chamber opera Seven Angels on John Milton’s masterpiece Paradise Lost, an epic poem that describes the fall of man. The outcome there is well known: Satan falls from heaven and tempts humanity, who are expelled from paradise but ultimately find redemption...
Seven Angels is a reflection on the relationship between humanity and the earth’s resources, in a world without inevitability, without a known story or ending, with forms and rhythms that glide and mutate, with causes that are unclear and consequences that remain unknown.