Breanna Sinclairé Featured in Boston Premiere of Trans Requiem with Coro Allegro November 22
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Acclaimed Soprano Breanna Sinclairé
Featured in Boston Premiere of Trans Requiem
with Coro Allegro November 22
San Francisco artist returns for concert marking Trans Day of Remembrance weekend
Breanna Sinclairé
(photo by Spencer Brown)
6 November 2026 — San Francisco, CA / Boston, MA: Acclaimed soprano Breanna Sinclairé (www.breannasinclaire.com) will join Coro Allegro, Boston’s LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus, for the Boston premiere of Andrew Yee’s Trans Requiem on Sunday, November 22, 2026, at 3 p.m. at the Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston. Led by Artistic Director David Hodgkins, the concert marks Trans Day of Remembrance weekend and opens Coro Allegro’s 2026–2027 season.
“I’m honored to share a work that lets us bring our whole selves to the stage,” said Sinclairé. “As we remember the trans lives we have lost, this music also makes room for those of us still here, with all our fears and our joy. I hope people leave this concert with a deeper understanding of our lives and of what it means to be heard and loved.”
Sinclairé sang in the work’s world premiere at Trinity Church in New York City on September 18, 2025. Commissioned by Trinity, Trans Requiem is written for trans voices, mixed chorus and string orchestra. Yee combines traditional Latin Requiem texts with personal writing exploring the trans experience. In Boston, Sinclairé will perform the fifth movement, “Lux Aeterna,” and the seventh, “I Am Afraid.”
The performance brings Sinclairé together with two-time Grammy Award-winning composer and cellist Andrew Yee, performing on cello and voice, and tenor Sam Crosby-Schmidt. It is Sinclairé’s second appearance with Coro Allegro, following the chorus’s Identity: I Believe concert in 2024.
The program also includes Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass and the presentation of Coro Allegro’s Pinkham Award to Giselle Byrd, Executive Director of The Theater Offensive and co-chair of Boston’s Trans Day of Remembrance vigil.
Tickets and information: www.coroallegro.org/season/trans-requiem. Advance purchase is encouraged.
About Breanna Sinclairé:
Breanna Sinclairé is a San Francisco-based American soprano whose career spans opera, concert performances, film and television. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and earned her master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she was the first transgender woman in the opera program. Her operatic credits include Carmen, The Magic Flute and La Calisto, and she has performed at major venues across the United States and in Europe.
In June 2015, Sinclairé became the first transgender woman to sing the U.S. national anthem at a professional sporting event, performing before an Oakland Athletics game. In 2018, she became the first transgender singer to perform with the San Francisco Symphony. Her honors include Out magazine’s 2015 OUT100 list and a 2021 Outstanding Voices award from the San Francisco Business Times.
Sinclairé appeared in the 2022 opera-film Bound, produced by Toronto’s Against the Grain Theatre, and in PBS’s True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs. She is featured in Tessitura, the 2025 documentary directed by Lydia Cornett and Brit Fryer, which received the Outstanding Documentary Short Award at the Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival. She is also the subject of Nicole Opper’s documentary Mezzo. Her work and story have been featured by The New York Times, NPR and CNN. In 2025, she was a featured soloist in the world premiere of Andrew Yee’s Trans Requiem at Trinity Church in New York City. For more information, visit www.breannasinclaire.com.