J’Nai Bridges

Mezzo-soprano

Short Biography

Two time Grammy® Award-winning American mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, known for her “plush-voiced mezzo-soprano” (The New York Times), and “calmly commanding stage presence” (The New Yorker) has been “marked out at and early stage as a singer headed for top flight” (Financial Times), gracing the world’s top opera and concert stages.

In Ms. Bridges' upcoming 2024-25 season, she will make her role debut as Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto at The Metropolitan Opera. Her concert engagements include performing alongside the National Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Tacoma, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She will perform a solo recital as an artist in residence at the Kaufman Music Center, and will feature as the mezzo-soprano soloist alongside the Dessoff Choirs in Verdi's Requiem for a concert at Trinity Church. Returning to Seattle Opera, she will debut the role of Didon in performances of Les Troyens, and in Spring 2025, will play the title role in Carmen at the Wiener Staatsoper. Bridges made her Lincoln Center debut performing Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs, and “with a voice both voluptuous and statuesque, sang with depth and serenity” (The New York Times) had a huge success performing the role of Mary in John Adams' El Niño at the Metropolitan Opera.