Richard makes his debut at the Grimeborn Festival as one of the Nepo Gods in William Gardner’s new work ‘Eden 2.0’.

In their new chamber opera Eden 2.0, librettist Alexia Peniguel and composer William Gardner take the Garden of Eden as their starting point and ask: what if creation could be rebooted, but this time the tree of knowledge was sanctioned and freely accessible?

Three people from very different eras – a philosopher from the pre-Christian Mediterranean basin, an industrialist from the nineteenth century, and a politician from a post-climate-change future – are plucked from their lives by a pair of bickering gods with dubious intent. Deposited in a vast encyclopaedic garden and granted access to all human knowledge, they are tasked with an extraordinary challenge: to design a world that can endure.

But as their grand experiment unfolds, they begin to discover that knowledge alone may not be enough.

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