Manuela Trasobares

Manuela Trasobares (August 28, 1962) is a Spanish artist and politician.

Trasobares was born in Figueres in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. She studied Fine Arts at the Facultat de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi of University of Barcelona, Painting and Sculpture in the ateliers Massana and Leonardo da Vinci in Barcelona and Bell Canto in the Conservatory of Sofia. She has performed as a mezzosoprano in Liceu de Barcelona, La Scala or Palau de la Música de València.

She has also directed opera shows and her works as a sculptor and as a painter have a clear surrealist influence.

As a politician, she is the first Spanish transsexual town councilor in Geldo with the political party Acción Republicana Democrática Española (Spanish Democratic Republican Action).