Memorial Auditorium at Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts

One of the finest performing arts facilities in North Carolina, Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium is rich with history and continues to nourish an outstanding repertoire of performing arts events in grand tradition, providing beauty, comfort, and convenience for patrons and performers alike.

Home to the North Carolina Symphony and the North Carolina Theatre, the Auditorium has entertained audiences with outstanding performances in opera, ballet, orchestral music, theater, comedy, and popular music concerts, featuring some of the world’s most celebrated artist such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Itzhak Perlman, Roberta Peters, Sarah Vaughn, The Moody Blues, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra, Pat Metheny, Natalie Cole, Ray Charles, Tony Bennett and Prince, as well as Broadway musical presentations of Cats, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, and Rent are just a few.