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

PEOPLE Posted: November 14, 2019 12:01 pm

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 stress relief. Says her best friend, pianist Sakura Myers, “J’Nai is a low-key sadist when it comes to exercise.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine

PEOPLE Published: 11.13.19

Read the story in T — The New York Times Style Magazine Published: 11.13.19

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