Breanna Sinclairé fled from a conservative, religious, sometimes-abusive family in Baltimore, moving west in her late teens to study vocal performance at California Institute of Arts and later at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
She made history as the first trans woman to sing with the San Francisco Symphony in 2018 and to sing the national anthem at a professional sporting event — a baseball game between the Oakland Athletics and the San Diego Padres in 2015.
At 29, Sinclairé was prepped and eager to make her professional operatic stage debut in Toronto last year when COVID derailed those plans.
As California eases its pandemic restrictions, her June 20 solo recital in San Francisco's esteemed Old First Concerts series will be