Posted on 05/04/2019 8:03:47 PM PDT by OddLane
Lucia Lucas is the first transgender person to play a lead role in a U.S. opera, performing the title role in Don Giovanni at the Tulsa Opera on May 3 and May 5. Although Lucas identifies as a woman, he plays a man, singing the baritone role of Don Giovanni. This casting reveals the truth that transgender identity cannot hide: Lucas is male, not female.
"Making history, Tulsa Opera presents baritone, Lucia Lucas in her American operatic debut as a transgender woman. Lucia Lucas’ appearance here will mark the first time a trans woman has performed a principal role on the operatic stage in the United States," announced Tobias Picker, artistic director at the Tulsa Opera.
Picker auditioned Lucas for the role in 2018, planning the situation as a "transgender opera," Classic FM reported. He reportedly discovered his clips on YouTube and decided to offer him the role on the spot...
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A man is playing a man in the opera.
Another reason to hate opera.
:p
How is this path-breaking for him to play a man if he’s already a man?
This seems kind of like me identifying as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
Stupid
This is just a schtick trick for tickets...
Midway Carney act...
Truth is once again stranger, and sicker, than fiction.
Easier title: Man sings man’s role in Opera.
If you refer to a person who sings baritone, has male anatomy, has male chromosomes, and has a male brain with male pronouns, that is hate speech. Welcome to the brave new world of 1984’s newspeak.
“Easier title: Man sings man’s role in Opera.”
In 2019 liberal Wokeland that is Man Bites Dog !
We can hardly wait till the first “transgender woman” sings the bass role.
When TV does this it’s called stunt casting.
Wrong. Man claims to be a woman but is so obviously a man that he sings as a man, and not as a woman.
But he is insane and so is everyone who calls him a trans woman.
They know. We know they know. They know we know they know. But, do they know we know they know we know?
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