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| J’Nai Bridges as Dido in our 2025 live performance efficiency of Berlioz’s Les Troyens at McCaw Corridor. © David Jaewon Oh |
As soon as hailed by Black Leisure Tv as “the Beyonce of opera,” J’Nai Bridges is a three-time Grammy winner who has carried out on the prime opera homes throughout the US and Europe. Better of all, she’s our hometown star.
Raised simply outdoors of Tacoma in Lakewood, WA, J’Nai describes her childhood as “well-rounded.” Alongside her siblings and fogeys, she performed sports activities, took music classes, went on household holidays, and attended church, the place she sang within the youngsters’s choir. These early experiences planted the seeds for what would turn into an distinctive worldwide profession.
As we speak, J’Nai is a extremely sought-after mezzo-soprano. She was a part of the 2026 Grammy Award-winning dwell recording of Intelligence, composed by Jake Heggie.
J’Nai typically credit her success to the group that raised her. “There are such a lot of individuals from Seattle, Tacoma, and Lakewood who’ve poured a lot love into me,” she mentioned.
Among the many native organizations that performed pivotal roles in J’Nai’s growth are Tacoma Youth Refrain, Charles Wright Academy, Tacoma Opera, and the School Success Basis. The muse coaches and helps under-resourced college students making ready them to graduate from school as transformational leaders.
To honor the group that embraced her by means of the years, J’Nai ceaselessly returns to the Pacific Northwest to carry out at Allen AME Church and at numerous group occasions. She additionally seems at Seattle Opera. Most just lately, she carried out the position of Dido in our live performance efficiency of Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Classical Voice mentioned, “She has the majesty and dignity befitting a queen, and a beautiful softness of grain in her timber which melted into the throbbing strains of the love duet…she discovered a brand new ardour and depth, each as a singer and as an actress.”
Now Seattle Opera is proud to showcase J’Nai, our hometown star, in Carmen.
Carmen is on stage Might 2–17, 2026 at McCaw Corridor. Be taught extra and purchase tickets at seattleopera.org/carmen.
