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Lucia Lucas, who will make history this May when she performs the title role in Tulsa Opera’s upcoming production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” is the subject of a new documentary that will chronicle her life and her preparations for her Tulsa debut.

Lucas is the first transgender woman to perform a lead role in an opera in the United States — in this case, the role of notorious womanizer Don Giovanni, whose devil-may-care attitude toward life in general and women in particular seals his fiery fate.

Kirkpatrick & Kinslow Productions, the Tulsa company responsible for such films as “Boomtown: An American Journey” and “Unlikely Family,” are producing the film, which has as its working title “Lucia’s Voice,” with Los Angeles-based producer Josh Bachove. James Kicklighter, whose films include “The American Question” and “Angel of Anywhere,” will direct.

Filming began this week as Lucas arrived at Tulsa International Airport to begin rehearsals for “Don Giovanni.”

A California native, Lucas has performed primarily in Europe, working with opera companies in Belgium, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy and Germany, where she has lived for the past decade. One critic described Lucas as possessing “one of the most powerful and beautiful baritone voices you could hear.”