In the early 20th century, the Lyric Opera featured opera tenor Enrico Caruso who appeared there with the Metropolitan Opera in a performance of Flotow's Martha. and firmed up the continuity of the Metropolitan Opera's annual visits. However Kahn's purchase caused the venue's name to be changed to the Lyric Theatre. Prior to the 1909 purchase of the building on behalf of the Metropolitan Opera by Otto Kahn, Oscar Hammerstein I presented an opera season and began to make plans to remodel it by enlarging the stage area. The name reverted to 'The Lyric' on March 31, 2021. The name was changed to 'The Patricia & Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric' in 2010, in recognition of a $3.5 million donation over a 10-year period beginning that year by Baltimore Ravens football team owner Art Modell and his wife Patricia Breslin. In 1909, it became the 'Lyric Opera House', its name for rest of the twentieth century. Over the years, the venue has had various names, beginning with 'The Music Hall' (1894-1909). The Grote Zaal (Great Hall) of the Concertgebouw after which the Baltimore Lyric Opera House was modeled It was founded after the demise of Baltimore Lyric Opera.

The Lyric has been the home of the Lyric Opera Baltimore company since 2011. When entrepreneur and football team owner Art Modell and his wife pledged a $3.5 million donation in 2010, it was renamed The Patricia & Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric in their honor. Between 19, it was known as the Lyric Opera House. The venue was originally called The Music Hall at its founding in 1894. Beginning in 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 that company's liquidation in 2009. The building was modeled after the Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam, and it was inaugurated on October 31, 1894, with a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Australian opera singer Nellie Melba as the featured soloist. The Lyric Performing Arts Center is a music venue in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, located close to the University of Baltimore law school.

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