This season, J’Nai Bridges makes her house debut in the title role of Carmen at Teatro Real in Madrid alongside Michael Fabiano and Charles Castronovo, conducted by Eun Sun Kim, reprising the role later in the season at both Seattle Opera and Cincinnati Opera. She reprises Maddalena in Rigoletto in her debut at San Francisco Opera, conducted by Eun Sun Kim, and returns to Washington National Opera as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Robert Spano. In concert, she reprises Maddalena in Rigoletto alongside Quinn Kelsey in the title role with Baltimore Symphony conducted by Jonathon Heyward, joins Nashville Symphony for Brian Field’s Hymn for the Hurting, with text by Amanda Gorman, and Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater, and joins the Gulbenkian Orchestra for their New Year’s Concerts, including repertoire by Berlioz, Rossini, Bizet, and Offenbach. In recital, she presents an all-French program at Boston’s Celebrity Series, The Morgan Library in New York, and Wake Forest University. She also presents Damien Geter’s COTTON alongside Justin Austin and Laura Ward at La Jolla Music Society, and a program of Coleridge-Taylor, Libby Larsen, Elgar, and others with Terrence Wilson and the Catalyst Quartet at the Library of Congress and Emory University.

Photo by Dario Acosta