Lucy Lucas: «Trans people can be whatever we want"

GAYLES.TV.- Singer Lucia lucas made history last year becoming the first trans singer to take a leading role in an opera in the U.S. His "Don Giovanni" in the Tulsa Opera marked a before and after in his life. Lucia lucas He has also played roles such as wotan on " Die walküre«, The four villains in«Les Contes d'Hoffmann", sharpless in "Madama Butterfly" Y escamillo in "Carmen«.

Grew up in Sacramento, California . He studied the trunk and voice in the California State University, Sacramento and then did a graduate job in the Chicago Performing Arts College . He moved to Germany in 2000 and decided to transition in November 2013. After their gender change, estrogens have not sharpened their voice and Lucas He made the conscious decision not to retrain his to sing the highest notes. "I finally did don giovanni, which is between the 10 or the 5 most famous operas and is super masculine, it is the womanizer par excellence”She says proudly.

Own sound

Tobias Picker, the artistic director of Tulsa, he chose Lucas as Don Giovanni because he just fell in love with her voice. «Lucia has its own sound", He said pickers, who currently writes an opera based on the novel of David Ebershoff of 2000 about a transgender painter, «The Danish Girl", with Lucas in the leading role. “It shines. It has specks of light like gold ».

Lucas She is one of the most innovative singers of her generation. She has performed in the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Lyric Opera of Dublin, Oper Wuppertal. She will be the first transgender woman to perform in the opera of New York and will interpret Billy Budd, because as she says “trans people can be what we want" It has the complete agenda until 2022.