Luke Bedford’s Seven Angels will have its German première today, on 21 June 2013 at the Opera stabile in Hamburg.

The chamber opera received rave reviews when it premièred in 2011:

“Atmospheric music, often lyrical and pleasantly marinated in tonality … succulently scored.” (The Times)

“Bedford’s score is impeccably crafted and it is sensitively played by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.” (Daily Telegraph)

"A score of substance and ultimate quality combined with beautiful words with extraordinary creative and artistic direction from the creative team and magnificent staging from John Fulljames." (Paul Guest/Ceasefire magazine)

View the full score of Seven Angels.

Watch the trailer for the world première, which took place on 17 June 2011 in Birmingham:

Luke Bedford: Seven Angels
for 7 singers and 12 instruments | 85’
1 0 1 1 - 0 1 1 0 - perc, pno, vla(4), cb
prem. 21/6/2013, Opera stabile, Hamburg
artists of the Internationales Opernstudio, cond. Alexander Winterson
Further performances: 22, 25, 26, 28 and 30/6/2013