Brazhnik was born on 25 February 1945 in
Magnitogorsk. He was educated at both
Saint Petersburg and
Ural conservatories and later performed over 50 operas in such countries as China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Poland, South Korea, Spain, and the United States. One of his first performances was
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya which he was a conductor of at the time but became known more for his conducting of
David Lloyd-Jones' version of
Boris Godunov which was performed at the
Yekaterinburg Opera for the first time in Russian history. Since 1999 he had worked for the
Helikon Opera and by 2012 became the
Golden Mask recipient for his conducting of
The Tales of Hoffmann which was performed in
Moscow's
Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre. ==References==