Interview with Maestro Nicholas Braithwaite

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/q8o9a8fuG4Y

The WSNC Webinar Series continues with an interview with Maestro Nicholas Braithwaite. London-born Maestro Nicholas Braithwaite who is interviewed by WSNC President Terri Stuart.

Based in Adelaide Australia, Nicholas Braithwaite is a well known opera and symphony conductor throughout the UK, Europe and Australia. Maestro Braithwaite has led performances of more than 70 operas, including at the English National Opera where he conducted an acclaimed Ring Cycle. The son of a conductor, Braithwaite experienced his first Bayreuth Festival as a child in 1951 and returned as a young musician to attend Friedelind Wagner’s Bayreuth Master Classes. Braithwaite studied at the Royal Academy of Music, at the Festival masterclasses in Bayreuth and with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. In the 1960s, Braithwaite was Associate Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He served as Resident Conductor at Sadler’s Wells Opera for three seasons, from 1971 to 1974, where he conducted the Ring Cycle. After departing Sadler’s Wells in 1974, Braithwaite held two important operatic posts. First as the Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1976-1980, and later, in Gothenburg, as Music Director at the Stora Theater Opera from 1981-1984.