When Lucia Lucas was training to be an opera singer at university, first in Sacramento, California, then at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, she always assumed that she was going to have to make a difficult decision one day about her life and her work because she thought they were incompatible. Her plan was to become one of the world’s best, and one of the best paid, opera singers. Then she could walk away. “I would have a big career, be done with the career, then transition to have my own private, separate life,” she says. “It was the most logical idea floating around in my head.”With Pamela Armstrong in Don Giovanni TULSA OPERALogic was thrown out on the day in 2014 when Lucas, then a company baritone in Karlsruhe,…

Source: The Times October 01, 2019 23:04 UTC