The Lyric Opera House is a music venue in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, located in direct proximity to the University of Baltimore, with which it shares a stop on Baltimore's blue line light rail route.
The building was modeled after the Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam, and it was inaugurated on 31 October 1894 with a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Australian opera singer Nellie Melba as the featured soloist. Beginning 1904, it was also used for touring performances by the Metropolitan Opera, and from 1950, it was the home of the Baltimore Opera Company until the company's liquidation in 2009.
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