“Habanera“ from Bizet’s Carmen | J’Nai Bridges

Mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges performs Carmen’s famous Habanera (“L’amour est un oiseau rebelle“) from Bizet’s Carmen. Jacques Lacombe conducts the COC Orchestra. #COC2223 #COCCarmen **** CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS Conductor: Jacques Lacombe Director: Joel Ivany Lighting Designer: Jason Hand Original Set Designer: Michael Yeargan Original Costume Designer: François St. Aubin Fight Director and Intimacy Coordinator: Siobhan Richardson Price Family Chorus Master: Sandra Horst Carmen: J’Nai Bridges, Rihab Chaieb (October 20 and 22) Don José: Marcelo Puente Micaëla: Joyce El-Khoury, Anna-Sophie Neher (October 28, 30, and November 4) Escamillo: Lucas Meachem, Gregory Dahl (October 30 and November 4) Zuniga: Alain Coulombe Le Dancaïre: Jonah Spungin Le Remendado: Jean-Philippe Lazure Frasquita: Ariane Cossette Mercédès: Alex Hetherington Moralès: Alex Halliday With the COC Orchestra and Chorus A Canadian Opera Company production The COC Orchestra is generously sponsored, in part, by W. Bruce C. Bailey