Lucia Lucas
Lucia Lucas (born c. 1980) is an American transgender baritone. She made history when, in March, 2018, it was announced that she would become the first female (transgender) baritone to perform a principal role on an American operatic stage. The performance on May 3, 2019, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, saw Lucas playing the starring role in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" with the Tulsa Opera. The performance is the subject of the 2020 feature documentary "The Sound of Identity", directed by James Kicklighter. Subsequently, Lucas became the first transgender baritone to appear with the English National Opera in London on  5 October 2019, playing Public Opinion in "Orpheus in the Underworld" at the London Coliseum. Lucas grew up in Sacramento, California. She studied horn and voice at California State University, Sacramento and then did graduate work at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. She moved to Germany in 2009. She decided to transition in November 2013, started taking estrogen and antiandrogens in July 2014 and underwent facial feminization surgery in September. In 2016, she had her gender reassignment surgery. Lucia Lucas married Ariana Lucas in 2009.