Before coming to Chicago, Lisa presented classical music in Columbus, Ohio, and Orlando, Florida. She also co-hosts the Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts. She has hosted many programs for the WFMT Radio Network, including War Letters (2002 Peter Lisagor Award winner), as well as live broadcasts from Salzburg for Mozart’s 250th birthday and Warsaw for the International Chopin Piano Competition. As the midday weekday announcer, she presents The New Releases, hosts live studio performances and interviews guest artists, including Renée Fleming, John Adams, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Lisa Flynn has been a program host and producer for WFMT since 1991. The Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts are generously sponsored by the Caerus Foundation, Inc., with matching funding provided by the Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family, the John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Foundation, and the Richard P. Lyric exists to provide a broad, deep and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance opera’s development by producing and performing consistently world-class opera, with a balanced repertoire encompassing core classics, less-known masterpieces and new works creating a diverse, innovative, wide-ranging program of community engagement and education activities that reaches the widest possible public and developing exceptional emerging operatic talent.Learn more about advertising and sponsorship on WFMT. The company’s mission is to express and promote the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Founded in 1954, Lyric has always distinguished itself by presenting the finest international singers, conductors, directors and designers in classic and less-familiar operatic repertoire and in world-premiere productions. Lyric Opera of Chicago is renowned internationally for its artistic excellence and financial strength.

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