She Gave Up On A Pro Basketball Career To Sing Opera. Now She´s One Of The Met´s Next Stars
(ArtsJournal)

In younger days, J’Nai Bridges, who’s been getting terrific reviews for her house debut as Nefertiti in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten, really was a championship-level basketball player back home in Washington state. (When a singing rehearsal conflicted with a finals game, she made her choice.) But Bridges still plays, often with fellow musicians, for exercise and […]