Breanna Sinclairé

 

Breanna Sinclairé is a graduate from Calarts and San Francisco Conservatory of Music (first Trans person in the Opera program). On the stage, she has performed in many operatic works: Carmen, Samson and Delilah, Durufle's Requiem to name a few. She has sung with the SF, Washington DC and Los Angeles  Gay Men's Chorus as their guest artist, recently she performed for the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention (alongside House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi). She sang the national anthem for the SF GIANTS, OAKLAND A’s , and The San Francisco Deltas as the first trans singer to perform at a national sporting event. Breanna was named OUT Magazine's LGBT Hero of the Year 2015.

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She has traveled across the States and Canada. Her debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in July 2017 was one of the huge milestones in her operatic career. She performed at the Lincoln Theater, Nourse Theater and many celebrated halls.December 31st, 2018 she made her debut with the San Francisco Symphony as the first trans singer to perform with the orchestra.

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She was recently in The New York Times in July 2019: NY Times article by Michael Cooper. “Transgender Opera Singers Find Their Voices” and have been featured in KQED. She was interviewed in 2019 for NPR Station KQED Radio “Three Transgender Opera Singers on the Risks They took to Live Autentically”. Breanna Sinclaire sang a rendition of the National Anthem in an episode for the Hit Emmy Award Television show “United Shades Of America with Kamau Bell” on May 30th, 2021, Memorial Day Special. She made her debut in the role as “Kelly Davidson” in the new Opera Film “BOUND” by Kevin Lau directed by Joel Ivany, a Canadian opera production by the Against Grain Theater which premiered March 27th,2022. Breanna attended the Berlin Opera Academy, August 2022 and was cast as Gertrude, the mother in the opera, "Hansel und Gretel" by Humperdinck.