It was announced in early 2012 that Lyric Opera Baltimore would plan to stage three operas in its second season, including one in partnership with the nearby Peabody Institute, founded 1857, facing the landmark Washington Monument, which is now part of The Johns Hopkins University. In partnership with the city's historic and premier Peabody Institute (music conservatory), Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress was also staged. The first season (2011–2012) consisted of La traviata (with Elizabeth Futral and Eric Margiore), Le nozze di Figaro (directed by Bernard Uzan), and Faust (starring Stefania Dovhan and Bryan Hymel). A number of smaller companies have also produced operas in Baltimore, on various scales. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Saint Paul and 20th Streets, was named the new Artistic Director of Lyric Opera Baltimore.Īnother company, Baltimore Opera Theatre, had already resurrected opera in the city shortly after the bankruptcy of the BOC, albeit at a venue closer to the city's central business district, but this company is no longer producing operas. James Harp, formerly the Artistic Administrator of the former Baltimore Opera Company and Cantor/Organist-Music Director at St. Lyric Opera Baltimore performed in Baltimore's historic Lyric Opera House of 1894 in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere-Mount Royal neighborhood north of downtown, also the former home of the old BOC along with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Maryland Ballet Company, now renovated again, renamed and called the Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric, in honor of Art Modell (1925-2012), and his wife's bequest to the city's arts and culture scene by the late longtime owner of the Baltimore Ravens professional football franchise. That company had become known for its espousal of American singers and its commitment to education and outreach since its beginnings as the Baltimore Civic Opera Company in the 1920s and under the later sponsorship of the nationally renowned diva and Baltimorean, the late Rosa Ponselle. The group performed its inaugural season in 2011, bringing opera back to the Lyric Opera House on Mount Royal Avenue after the unfortunate 2009 bankruptcy filing at the beginnings of the recent Great Recession of 2008-2009 of the now-defunct longtime Baltimore Opera Company. Lyric Opera Baltimore was an American opera company based in Baltimore, Maryland.
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