[1] He later attended the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and graduated with an Honours Diploma in Orchestral Conducting in 1975 under the tutelage of Karl Österreicher.
In the summer of 1976, Nazareth was a recipient of both the Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship and the Koussevitsky Music Foundation Conductor's Award at Tanglewood in the United States.
On the invitation of Gian Carlo Menotti, Nazareth conducted his first opera, Cosi fan tutte, in summer 1977 at the Spoleto Festival, Italy.
Video productions with MDR Leipzig included Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Mass in C, Anton Bruckner's Te Deum, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.
In August 2000, Nazareth conducted the Opera di Roma's Centenary Production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca at the Roman Olympic Stadium and at the World Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany.