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date = "2016-11-25T13:23:00+00:00"
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title = "Breanna Sinclairé"
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Breanna Sinclaire is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and a graduate of the esteemed Baltimore School for the Arts. She earned her B.F.A. at the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, under the tutelages of Maria Fortuna Dean and former Cirque du Soleil star Kate Conklin.

She recently graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Master of Music in Vocal Performance Program, as the first transwoman of color, under the pedagogy of Ms. Ruby Pleasure.

Previous performance engagements include Mozart's *The Magic Flute*, Ravel's *L'enfant et les sortilèges*, Rameau's *Platée*, Gershwin's *Porgy and Bess*, and Bernstein's *West Side Story*. She has also performed in special projects in Los Angeles, at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (Meredith Monk's *Songs of Ascension*) and at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Zachary Sharrin's *Time Bodies*). She was most recently seen performing as Carmen in "Melons! Coupons!" from *Carmen*, and as Furie in Cavalli's *La Calisto*, The lead, Miss Todd in Menotti's *Old Maid and thief* on the opera stage at the Conservatory. Sinclaire performed at the 14th Annual Fresh Meat Festival: Transgender and Queer Performance Z space theater. She performed as a guest for the SF Gay Men's Chorus "Elton Sing-Along" show at the Nourse Theater, San Francisco. Also, Ms. Sinclaire recently sang the National Anthem for the Oakland A’s first LGBT Pride Night June 17th.
