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In Conversation with Nina Brazier
Nina chats with Steve Phillips about working in the German system and the realities for singers in a large repertoire house.
Umfrage Opernwelt 2024
Opernwelt's critic Silvia Adler voted for Nina's production of Ascanio in Alba as her rediscovery of the year in Opernwelt's Survey 2024.
Starke Frauen und ein Mann im Traum
Interview in Frankfurter Allgemeiner alongside conductor Alden Gatt on staging Ascanio in Alba at Oper Frankfurt. (German, paywall)
Audition Oracle at Opera Prelude
We were delighted to attend Nina Brazier’s enlightening talk about Working in Germany at Opera Prelude’s annual conference and professional development day, OperaWorks https://auditionoracle.com/nina_brazier_discusses_working_in_germany_audition_oracle_at_operaworks/
Zwischen Einfluss und Kontrolle: Oper Frankfurt Blog
Between influence and control: Nina's discussion of her German debut of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba in Oper Frankfurt's Season 23/24 magazine.
Oper Frankfurt’s Rehearsal Diary for ‘La forza del destino’
As part of Oper Frankfurt's rehearsal diary, Nina Brazier describes her intensive everyday work and provides insights into the process of reviving Verdi's La forza del destino.
Listen to the Radio France recording of Retour à Lemberg
The recording of Retour à Lemberg was recorded at the Theâtre de la Colline, Paris (in French)
Seven tips for staying sane in the Covid-19 crisis
Read Nina's article on Audition Oracle's site with tips and coping mechanisms to help get through this time.
Interview with Irene Kurka
Listen to an interview with Nina featured on soprano Irene Kurka's podcast „neue musik leben“
Opera Today: In conversation with Nina Brazier
When British opera director Nina Brazier tries to telephone me from Frankfurt, where she is in the middle of rehearsals for a revival of Florentine Klepper’s 2015 production of Martinů’s Julietta, she finds herself - to my embarrassment - ‘blocked’ by my telephone preference settings. The technical hitch is soon solved; but doors, in the UK and Europe, are certainly very much wide open for Nina, who has been described by The Observer as ‘one of Britain’s leading young directors of opera’.
Interview with the Baillie Gifford Prize
Nina speaks with the Baillie Gifford Prize on directing the US premiere of East West Street
Feature in The Guardian on Dear Marie Stopes
Read Zoe Williams' article in The Guardian on the opera about pioneer sexpert Marie Stopes and rehearsals with Tête-à-Tête opera festival
Feature in The Stylist on Dear Marie Stopes
Maya Crockett explores how Marie Stopes revolutionised British women’s sex lives
Interview with Bob Books Creativity Series
Nina shares insight into the creative process and how this is facilitated in everyday life
Interview with Hanna Grzeskiewicz on The Winter’s Tale
Nina speaks about RADA Studios Theatre's upcoming The Winter’s Tale from award-winning contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment
Interview with Planet Hugill on directing La Finta Giardiniera
From the rehearsal room of upcoming La Finta Giardiniera
Listen to the Southbank Centre’s recording of If This is a Man
To mark the 70th anniversary of the publication, on 30 April 2017 A.L. Kennedy and Philippe Sands led a live reading of Primo Levi’s powerful account of survival at Auschwitz, If This Is A Man at Southbank Centre.

















