Golden Gate Opera - Marin County Opera

Artistic Director and General Manager of Golden Gate Opera since 1996, founded Outreach Opera-tunities enrichment program for school children and has led GGO in presenting full operas at Marin Center and innovative up-close opera performances throughout Marin since 2005. Ms. Wain-Becker's professional opera career includes 30 years of international and U.S. regional opera company engagements including The Israel National Opera, New Opera Festival di Roma, Portland Opera, Mississippi Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Arizona Opera, Whitewater Opera, Marin Opera, Berkeley Opera, Sacramento Opera, San Francisco Opera and others.

As featured soloist with symphonies in the west, she has had performances with Sacramento Symphony, Jackson Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Billings Symphony, Diablo Philharmonic, Marin Symphony, Santa Barbara Choral Society, Oakland Symphony among others. Winner of Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Award, her awards also include the Wagner Society of Northern California, William Matheus Sullivan Musical Foundation of New York and more.

She has over 50 roles in her repertoire in operas by such composers as Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Donizetti and Puccini. She's on the faculty of the California Opera Association Summer Institute in Fresno, an international training program for rising opera talent. Golden Gate Opera is a member of Opera America and places an emphasis on bringing essential fine arts to school children and the community through GGO's outreach programs of professional opera.