

I learned it for parties and auditions, It’s just so fun. The Habanera was the first thing that I looked at. “Certainly the fourth act is probably vocally the most demanding, so I’ve been working on that for a long time, but I also started looking at that later. And actually, just some life experience,” Bridges says. Because it’s not a role that you can just get out of bed and sing. “It’s been something that I’ve been working on probably for ten years, actually. It’s really an athletic role.” It’s also a dream role, and one that generally takes time to build up to. “By the end of the opera I feel like I’ve just played a basketball game, and I know what that feels like… I like to actually call this role the Beyoncé of opera, because I’m just doing everything. There’s more information about the performances at the San Francisco Opera website.īridges made the decision to follow her musical dreams after having a parallel interest and talent in playing basketball during high school, which she says she’s been reminded of, playing Carmen.
