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The Opera Pod

Dec 17, 2020

Multi award-winning composer Philip chats with host Nina Brazier about how he works with his collaborators, how he creates work with such incredible visceral impact, and whether he feels that now is a time where the operatic form is changing for the better.  His work has swept across the world’s stages over the last...


Dec 10, 2020

Multi award-winning Welsh soprano Fflur Wyn talks to Nina Brazier about her earliest performance at the age of three, growing up under the spotlight of a nation, and the two key people who changed the course of her operatic career. For the first time ever she opens up about working through illness and injury, dealing...


Dec 3, 2020

Young director Rachael chats with Nina Brazier about her extraordinary online sensation, Virtual Opera’s digital creation of L’enfant et les Sortilegès with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, created under lockdown with over 135 freelancers. She also talks about her childhood memories eating crisps in the wings of...


Nov 26, 2020

Aurore talks openly with Nina Brazier about her childhood in a small town in central France, where her mother was determined to give her daughters the artistic education that she was denied.  Deciding at school that she was destined to become the future director of the Festival D’Avignon, Aurore made her way through...


Nov 19, 2020

Tim Claydon chats with Nina Brazier about the series of happy accidents that have forged his career, from his early start as a classical dancer, to flying above 20,000 people as an aerialist at the opening of the Millennium Dome, through his current – and completely unexpected - lockdown career. Tim confesses to...