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In Conversation with Nina Brazier

March 2026

Nina chats with Steve Phillips about working in the German system and the realities for singers in a large repertoire house.

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Umfrage Opernwelt 2024

September 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.

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Starke Frauen und ein Mann im Traum

December 2023

Interview in Frankfurter Allgemeiner alongside conductor Alden Gatt on staging Ascanio in Alba at Oper Frankfurt. (German, paywall)

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Audition Oracle at Opera Prelude

November 2023

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/

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Zwischen Einfluss und Kontrolle: Oper Frankfurt Blog

November 2023

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.

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Oper Frankfurt’s Rehearsal Diary for ‘La forza del destino’

June 2022

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.

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Listen to the Radio France recording of Retour à Lemberg

January 2022

The recording of Retour à Lemberg was recorded at the Theâtre de la Colline, Paris (in French)

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Seven tips for staying sane in the Covid-19 crisis

March 2020

Read Nina's article on Audition Oracle's site with tips and coping mechanisms to help get through this time.

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Interview with Irene Kurka

February 2020

Listen to an interview with Nina featured on soprano Irene Kurka's podcast „neue musik leben“

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Opera Today: In conversation with Nina Brazier

September 2019

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’.

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Interview with the Baillie Gifford Prize

September 2018

Nina speaks with the Baillie Gifford Prize on directing the US premiere of East West Street

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Feature in The Guardian on Dear Marie Stopes

August 2018

Read Zoe Williams' article in The Guardian on the opera about pioneer sexpert Marie Stopes and rehearsals with Tête-à-Tête opera festival

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Feature in The Stylist on Dear Marie Stopes

August 2018

Maya Crockett explores how Marie Stopes revolutionised British women’s sex lives

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Interview with Bob Books Creativity Series

January 2018

Nina shares insight into the creative process and how this is facilitated in everyday life

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Interview with Hanna Grzeskiewicz on The Winter’s Tale

August 2017

Nina speaks about RADA Studios Theatre's upcoming The Winter’s Tale from award-winning contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment

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Interview with Planet Hugill on directing La Finta Giardiniera

July 2017

From the rehearsal room of upcoming La Finta Giardiniera

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Listen to the Southbank Centre’s recording of If This is a Man

April 2017

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.

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