San Francisco Opera
Ilana Rainero-de Haan has extensive experience in the arts and music management sector, currently serving as the Music Planning Manager at San Francisco Opera since March 2015, where previous roles included Associate and Assistant to the Managing Director - Artistic. Prior to this, Ilana worked as Concert Manager and Office Staff at KUNSTENISRAËL, overseeing a concert series across the Netherlands. Additional experience includes positions as Operations Manager and PR at the International Jewish Music Festival, Operations Manager at Musica Reale, and Personal Assistant to cellist Tanya Tomkins. Ilana has also contributed to various music-focused organizations, such as Dickinson College, Impulse Art Management, Museo della Musica di Bologna, The Walden School, and San Francisco Symphony. Education includes a Master of Arts from Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna and a Bachelor of Arts from Dickinson College, with a focus on music composition and Italian studies.
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San Francisco Opera
Founded in 1923, San Francisco Opera is the oldest surviving opera company on the West Coast and a leader in arts education and innovation. It all started, according to legend, over a game of poker. In his travels across the United States, the Neapolitan conductor Gaetano Merola had noticed that San Francisco audiences hungered for opera. Over a card game in the North Beach neighborhood, an idea took hold: Why not give San Francisco its very own resident opera company? Merola rallied local leaders and music lovers, and soon — on September 26, 1923 — the curtain rose on a new beacon in the art world: San Francisco Opera. Starting with that very first performance of “La Bohème,” San Francisco Opera established itself as destination for world-class talent and incomparable artistry. Artists like Leontyne Price and Birgit Nilsson would arrive to make their American stage debuts. New operas like “Dead Man Walking” and “Appomattox” would take shape under its proscenium. And new technology like supertitles and simulcasts would be adopted early on to make opera more accessible for everyone. Matthew Shilvock leads the company as its seventh general director, having assumed the role in August 2016. He succeeds company founder Gaetano Merola (1923-1953), Kurt Herbert Adler (1953-1981), Terence A. McEwen (1982–1988), Lotfi Mansouri (1988–2001), Pamela Rosenberg (2001–2005) and David Gockley (2006–2016). He is joined by the leadership of music director Eun Sun Kim, who follows in the footsteps of previous music directors including Sir John Pritchard (1982-1989), Sir Donald Runnicles (1992-2009) and Nicola Luisotti (2009-2018). Come visit us in our historic 1932 home, the War Memorial Opera House, the first municipally owned opera house in the United States — and one of the last Beaux-Arts buildings to be built in the country. Or find us out and about in our community, where we hold free events like Opera in the Park. To learn more, please visit sfopera.com.