LA Opera and Classical KUSC Present the 7th Season of LA OPERA ON AIR

LA Opera is collaborating with Classical KUSC to produce the seventh consecutive season of LA Opera on Air, a weekly broadcast series of LA Opera performances recorded live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Beginning with Bizet's Carmen at 10am on Saturday, May 17, 2014, the weekly series will be hosted by KUSC's Duff Murphy and will feature six operas from LA Opera's 2013/14 season. The series will be broadcast locally on Classical KUSC 91.5FM, its repeater stations (see below) and also streamed live online at www.KUSC.org.

The "LA Opera on Air" broadcasts will subsequently be syndicated throughout the United States on the WFMT Radio Network beginning on July 12, 2014. These national radio broadcasts will be heard on 88 main stations and in 256 total markets in 28 states. Broadcast dates and times on the WFMT Radio Network vary in differing media markets; please visit www.WFMT.com/RadioNetwork for more information.

[Corrected:] LA Opera on Air is made possible by a generous grant from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, spearheaded by the efforts of Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky.

About Classical KUSC
Classical KUSC 91.5fm is the largest and most listened to public radio and non-profit classical music station in the country. KUSC is dedicated to preserving classical music as a living art. The station is a broadcast service of the University of Southern California at 91.5 fm in Los Angeles and Santa Clarita; 88.5 KPSC in Palm Springs; 91.1 KDSC in Thousand Oaks, 88.7 KQSC in Santa Barbara and 99.7 in Morro Bay/San Luis Obispo. For more information, please visit www.KUSC.org.

About WFMT
The WFMT Radio Network is a premier creator and distributor of radio programs that are syndicated to hundreds of radio stations throughout the United States and internationally, with a focus on classical music, jazz, folk, science, and world culture programs. The network presents a full series of opera broadcasts with performances from LA Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera and Houston Grand Opera, as well as concerts by the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic. For more information, please visit www.WFMT.com/RadioNetwork.

About LA Opera
Now in its 28th season, LA Opera is one of America's most exciting and ambitious opera companies. Presenting benchmark productions of standard repertoire as well as new and rarely-staged operas, LA Opera brings together world-renowned singers, designers, directors and conductors for performances that attract the attention of international audiences and critics. Highlights of recent seasons include the Los Angeles premiere of Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, the world premiere of Daniel Catán's Il Postino,the Company's first complete Ring cycles, and the first major U.S. production in four decades of Verdi's The Two Foscari. In addition to its mainstage performances, LA Opera presents a robust variety of educational programming and innovative community engagement offerings, experienced by more than 120,000 people each season. For more information, please visit www.LAOpera.org.

Artist headshots and production photos from LA Opera's 2013/14 season can be found on the LA Opera Press Gallery at www.LAOpera.org/press/Press-Photos/201314-Season.

Opera Month in L.A.
The launch of LA Opera on Air is just one of many notable operatic highlights taking place throughout Los Angeles County during the month of May. The weekend of May 17-18 will see two company premieres opening at LA Opera-Jules Massenet's Thaïs and André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, which stars Renée Fleming-followed by a recital by baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky on May 22. Other highlights include Così fan tutte produced by the LA Philharmonic; The Tallest Tree in the Forest, a play about bass Paul Robeson, as well as The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, both presented by Center Theatre Group; a double-bill of An American Soldier's Tale and A Fiddler's Tale at Long Beach Opera; La Calisto presented by Pacific Opera Project; andspring concerts by the Verdi Chorus.

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