Lyric Opera House
The Lyric Opera House is a music venue in Baltimore, Maryland. It opened in 1894, and was modelled after the Neues Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany.
It is currently the home of the Baltimore Opera and institutions which have performed in the Lyric Opera include the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (until 1982), Metropolitan Opera, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
The Lyric Opera House's opening, on October 31, 1894, included the famed Australian singer Nellie Melba. In the early 20th century, the Lyric Opera featured opera tenor Enrico Caruso, a boxing match between Joe Gans and Mike Sullivan, and the first public showing of electric cooking in Baltimore, as well as hosting speakers like Aimee Semple McPherson, Will Rogers, Richard Byrd, Clarence Darrow, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh and William Jennings Bryan.
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