PRODUCTIONS
“Evenings like this are too good to miss…”
Opera Magazine
“…utterly riveting…”
Edinburgh Evening News
“…a boldly ingenious experiment.”
The Reviews Hub
“…ingeniously seductive…”
The Guardian
LA DIDONE ABBANDONATA
“It offered a modern audience a precious, irreplicable total sensory experience—a time machine that allowed us to step directly into a vivid, hot-blooded operatic world previously only witnessed on a movie screen”
OPERAWIRE
Ludwigsburg Schlossfestpiele
Schlosstheater Ludwigsbrg
July 2026
Creative team
Conductor: Francesco Corti
Staging: Nina Brazier
Cast
Didone: Jone Martínez
Enea: Mayaan Licht
Iarba: Valerio Contaldino
Selene: Olivia Vermeulen
Araspe: Leadro Marziotte
Osmida: Suzanne Jerosme
EAST WEST STREET
“A sobering, fascinating, and in the best sense provocative evening”
Seen & Heard
Aldeburgh Festival
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
20th June 2026
Creative team
Director: Nina Brazier
Dramaturg: Paul Cremo
Cast
Writer & Narrator: Philippe Sands
Narrator: Katja Riemann
Bass baritone: Laurent Naouri
Pianist: Guillaume de Chassy
RIGOLETTO
“an unflinching vision of how wickedness first manifests itself in the human world”
Classical Source
If Opera
Church Farm, Wingfield
7-16th August 2025
Creative team
Conductor: Oliver Gooch
Director: Nina Brazier
Designer: Elliott Squire
Lighting Designer: Luca Panetta
Movement Director: Monica Nicolaides
Cast
Rigoletto: Alexey Gusev
Gilda: Inna Husieva
Duke of Mantua: Andrés Presno
Sparafucile: Ronald Nairne
Maddalena: Alyona Abramova
Giovanna: Gráinne Gillis
Countess Ceprano: Katey Rylands
Borsa: Gareth Dafydd Morris
Count Monterone: Thomas D Hopkinson
Marullo: Matthew Siveter
Count Ceprano: Kieran Rayner
Page/Lady: Susie Buckle
Courtier: Sam Marston
KIezPalast: City life
“Frankfurt’s musical KiezPalast continues its successful run / Der musiklaische Frankfurter Kiezpalast ist weiter auf Erfolgskurs”
Frankfurter Allgemeiner
HR Sinfonieorchester
Alte Oper, Frankfurt
30 January 2025
Creative team
Conductor: Frank Strobel
Staging: Nina Brazier
Cast
Katja Riemann
Ascanio in Alba
“Brazier succeeds in giving each of the opera’s virtuosic vocal jewels engaging theatrical life… There was not a single dull moment”
Neue Musikzeitung
Oper Frankfurt
Bockenheimer Depot
17th December 2023 – 3rd January 2024
Creative team
Conductor: Alden Gatt
Director: Nina Brazier
Designer: Christoph Fischer
Costume Designer: Henriette Hübschmann
Lighting Designer: Jonathan Pickles
Dramaturg: Deborah Einspieler
Cast
Venus: Kataryna Kasper
Ascanio: Cecelia Hall
Silvia: Karolina Bengtsson
Aceste: Andrew Kim
Fauno: Anna Nekhames
Frankfurter Opern-und Museumsorchester
Acis & Galatea
“The curtain didn’t fall just once because the audience didn’t want to stop applauding”
Bietigheimer Zeitung
Ludwigsburg Festival
Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg, Schlosstheater
8 July 2022
Creative team
Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann
Director: Nina Brazier
Cast
Galatea: Keri Fuge
Acis: Joshua Ellicott
Damon: Benedikt Kristjánsson
Polyphemus: Andreas Wolf
Chorus & Orchestra of the Gaechinger Cantorey
Der Mond
“…uses the tight space on the stage of the beautiful Beethovensaal for many entertaining moments under the direction of Nina Brazier”
Stuttgarter Nachrichten
Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart
Stuttgart Liederhalle, Beethoven-Saal
6 March 2022
Creative team
Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann
Director: Nina Brazier
Consultant Dramaturg: Mareike Wink
Cast
Erzähler: Benjamin Bruns
Petrus / Ein Bauer: Krešimir Stražanac
1. Bursche: Dávid Csizmár
2. Bursche: Tobias Ay
3. Bursche: Christoph Pfaller
4. Bursche: Timo Hannig
Chorus of the Gaechinger Cantorey
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker
Ariadne auf Naxos
“…this no frills production is more enjoyable than the mildly surrealist Ariadne normally in the company’s repertoire.”
Opera Canada
Oper Frankfurt
11–27 June 2021
Creative team
Conductor: Thomas Guggeis
Director: Nina Brazier
Dramaturg: Mareike Wink
Cast
Primadonna / Ariadne: Ambur Braid
Zerbinetta: Sarah Aristidou
Der Tenor / Bacchus: AJ Glueckert / Andreas Schager
Der Komponist: Diana Haller / Claudia Mahnke
Najade: Florina Ilie
Dryade: Zanda Švēde
Echo: Angela Vallone
Harlekin / Ein Lakai: Mikołaj Trąbka
Scaramuccio / Ein Offizier: Theo Lebow
Truffaldin / Ein Perückenmacher: Kihwan Sim
Brighella: Michael Porter
Ein Tanzmeister: Michael McCown
Ein Musiklehrer: Sebastian Geyer
Der Haushofmeister: Peter Schröder
Dear Marie Stopes
“…profoundly moving and sometimes heartbreaking.”
Planet Hugill
Wellcome Collection / King’s Place London
August 2018 / September 2019
Creative team
Composer: Alex Mills
Librettist: Jennifer Thorpe
Director: Nina Brazier
Producer: Kate Romano
Lighting Designer and Video Projection: Lucía Sánchez Roldán
Costume Designer: Alexa Moore
Cast
Soprano: Alexa Mason
Contralto: Jess Dandy
Countertenor: Feargal Mostyn-Williams
Viola da Gamba: Liam Byrne
Cello: Lucy Railton (Wellcome) Clare O’Connell (Kings Place)
Le Nozze di Figaro
“Brazier’s production was characterized by an economy of gesture married to an unbridled sense of whimsical fun.”
The Prickle
Berlin Opera Academy
Theater im Delphi, Berlin
12–13 July 2019
Creative team
Conductor: Peter Leonard
Director: Nina Brazier
Designer: Jeannie Chandler
Costume Designer: Alexa Moore
Cast
Figaro: Tormey Woods / Ignas Melnikas
Susanna: Elen Lloyd Roberts / Karen Schriesheim
La Contessa: Josi Ann Ellem / Alice Wielant
Il Conte: Edward Kyungduk Kim / Rui Ma
Cherubino: Sarah Fleiss / Sophie Kidwell
Bartolo: Miguel Maduro-Dias / Katagan Zhumagulov
Marcellina: Judith Ankoue / Katherine Wiswell
Basilio: Mikael Englund / Patrick Tsoi-A-Sue
Antonio: Carlos René García Santiago / Izaya Perrier
Orchestra: Berlin Opera Academy