Exclusive: J’nai Bridges (USA), Round 3, 2015

Exclusive footage of mezzo-soprano J’nai Bridges singing Ô ma lyre immortelle from Gounod’s Sapho in Cardiff Singer of the World 2015.

About the music: The poet Sapho is devastated, as her lover Phaon has betrayed and left her. Sapho sings these to her lyre, reflecting that it is no longer able to bring her consolation in her grief. She bids it farewell, then throws herself into the sea to her death.