Peter Brathwaite

[12][13] In 2018, he developed the show Effigies of Wickedness (Songs banned by the Nazis) in collaboration with English National Opera and the Gate Theatre.

[22] Brathwaite created the role of Narrator in Wolf Witch Giant Fairy, a devised collaboration between The Royal Opera and Little Bulb.

[24] In May 2022, Brathwaite made his debut at the Munich Biennale singing the role of Paul in the world premiere of Ann Cleare's opera The Little Lives with Ensemble Musikfabrik.

[26] In January 2023, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden announced Insurrection: A Work in Progress, a series of semi-staged sharings co-developed by and featuring Brathwaite.

[29] Concert appearances have included Britten's Canticles at Leeds Lieder Festival[30] with Mark Padmore, Iestyn Davies and Joseph Middleton, and Mozart arias with Tonu Kaljuste and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in Tallinn.

[32] His series of photographs, Rediscovering Black Portraiture, began as part of the online Getty Museum Challenge to recreate works of art.

"[40] Brathwaite's re-creation of Portrait of an African, attributed to Allan Ramsay, is featured in a film produced for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum exhibition In Plain Sight: Transatlantic Slavery & Devon.

[49] Brathwaite's reimagining of Portrait of an African Man, a painting by the Dutch Renaissance painter Jan Mostaert, was acquired for the renewed permanent collections of the Museum Hof van Busleyden in Mechelen.

[56] His audio essay series for BBC Radio 3, In Their Voices, on five singers from whom he has drawn inspiration, was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society award for storytelling.

[57][58] Brathwaite's BBC Radio 3 documentary Rebel Sounds sees him travel to the land of his ancestors to discover the music of enslaved people in Barbados, as seen through the lens of his own family's history.

"[62] In a New York Times article on artists redefining Black history, Brathwaite was noted for his “scholarly sense of deadpan.” His book Rediscovering Black Portraiture was highlighted for its reimaginings, where he “traverses history by dropping himself into Rococo portraits.”[63] In 2024, Peter Brathwaite curated the exhibition Mischief in the Archives at the Bodleian Library, focusing on the Codrington Collection’s 18th-century records of slavery and colonialism in Barbados.

[65] In connection with the development of this book, Brathwaite was named one of the winners of the Eccles Institute and Hay Festival Writer's Award for 2025 at a reception held at the British Library in December 2024.