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The Lyric Opera House is home to the Baltimore Opera Company, but it also hosts music acts, comedians, family programs and Broadway shows. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra played at the venue until 1982, when it moved to the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The 2,564-seat theater in Mount Royal is on the National Register of Historic Places. It opened in 1894 as the Music Hall with a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was renamed the Lyric Theater in 1909 when it changed owners. The theater, known for its acoustics, has hosted such names as Charles Lindberg, Amelia Earhart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn and Will Rogers. More recently, performances, including "The Nutcracker," "...
The Lyric Opera House is home to the Baltimore Opera Company, but it also hosts music acts, comedians, family programs and Broadway shows. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra played at the venue until 1982, when it moved to the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The 2,564-seat theater in Mount Royal is on the National Register of Historic Places. It opened in 1894 as the Music Hall with a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was renamed the Lyric Theater in 1909 when it changed owners. The theater, known for its acoustics, has hosted such names as Charles Lindberg, Amelia Earhart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn and Will Rogers. More recently, performances, including "The Nutcracker," "Evita," Jungle Jack Hanna, Bill Maher and Queen Latifah, have filled the schedule. The nonprofit Lyric Foundation purchased the theater and launched a $14 million renovation plan to cope with the loss of the BSO. In 1982, the renamed Lyric Opera House -- with a new entrance, lobby, seating arrangement and backstage facilities -- opened as a multipurpose venue. The Lyric has struggled with competing theaters such as the Hippodrome and Meyerhoff, changed hands several times and dealt with financial setbacks. But it continues to adapt to the changing arts scene in Baltimore.
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City opera plans need not be grand
No, I haven't stopped thinking about Baltimore's opera future. And, thanks to some others in the area similarly focused, I've got a lot more to think about. Last week, Giorgio Lalov and Jenny Kelly announced the debut season of their Baltimore Opera...Tags: 1st Mariner Arena, Opera, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Mount Vernon, Music Theater
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Domingo to conduct 'Turandot' at Lyric
The first time Placido Domingo stood on the stage of Baltimore's Lyric Opera House, he sang. When he returns on Tuesday, after 43 years, he won't open his mouth. Instead, the eminent Spanish-born singer, who has performed at all of the world's leading...Tags: Opera, Mount Royal, Employees, Music Theater, Music Industry
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UM orchestral institute concerts start Thursday
The gulf between conservatory training and the professional music world can be sizable and daunting. The National Orchestral Institute, a project of the University of Maryland School of Music, helps bridge that gulf. Students and recent grads receive four...Tags: Opera, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), George Washington University, Tennessee Williams, Music Theater
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New venue for Mobtown Modern
Arts sceneMobtown Modern, the most way-out-there music organization in Baltimore, has announced another boldly unconventional lineup for the 2009-2010 season, along with a new venue. The concert series will still be presented by the Contemporary Museum, where...Tags: Lucian Freud, Opera, Pablo Picasso, Philip Glass, Steven Spielberg
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Placido Domingo to conduct 'Turandot' in Baltimore
When Washington National Opera brings a concert version of Puccini's Turandot to Baltimore on June 2, the company will bring its general director along. Placido Domingo, the celebrated tenor who runs WNO (and the Los Angeles Opera), will conduct this...Tags: Janet Jackson, Celebrity, Opera, Debra Winger, Dave Matthews Band (band)
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'Chicago' gets its razzle-dazzle from long list of actors
The stage version of Chicago has been hunkering down on the Great White Way for such an extended period - since Nov. 14, 1996, to be precise - that it has become a recognized and reliable source of income for A-list, B-list and, yes, even C-list...Tags: New York Times, George Hamilton, Usher, Opera, Cinema Industry
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Lyric to host Washington Opera
Operatic voices will again fill the Lyric Opera House this season. Washington National Opera will present a concert version of Puccini's Turandot there on June 2, just before the end of its fully staged presentations of the work at the Kennedy Center....Tags: Bankruptcy, Opera, Music Theater, Classical Music, Poetry
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Bringing opera back to the city?
The loss of the Baltimore Opera Company, which filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in March, left a gap in the community's cultural life that several people are interested in filling, none more energetically than Giorgio Lalov.
The colorful Bulgarian-born...Tags: Opera, United States, Music Theater, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Poetry
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Opera we can believe in
Baltimore needs an opera company it can believe in now that the venerable Baltimore Opera Company has closed up shop. For 58 seasons, the company's singers and musicians performed what has been called "the most extravagant art" - a lavish collage of...Tags: Opera, Valkyrie (movie), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Birgit Nilsson, Beverly Sills
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Spinal Tap, minus the big hair and big sound
The members of Spinal Tap will be onstage Tuesday night at the Lyric. But Spinal Tap won't. Harry Shearer wants to be sure fans understand the difference.
"It's not a Spinal Tap tour," says Shearer, who played bass for the band that began life as a...Tags: Christopher Guest, Opera, Rob Reiner, Acoustic, Censorship
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Baltimore Opera Company items go on block
Instead of "bravo," the final sendoff for the Baltimore Opera Company will be an auctioneer shouting "sold." The giant Sphinx-head that once stared down on the glittery Triumphal March in Aida, the carefully detailed cathedral where Tosca sang a love...Tags: Public Employees, Opera, Personal Data Collection, Vehicles, YouTube
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