Performers

Groups who perform at the Progress Energy Center.

Carolina Ballet - Carolina Ballet was launched in 1997, under the direction of artistic director Robert Weiss, to serve the ever-expanding Triangle community that includes Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Research Triangle Park, Fuquay-Varina and beyond. After only seven seasons, Carolina Ballet with a budget of $4.3 million is being recognized as one of the top ten ballet companies in the country. The company totals 31 dancers and will perform 62 times in Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Chapel Hill and Wilmington between September 2005 and May 2006.

NC Symphony - The North Carolina Symphony is a full-time, professional orchestra with 65 members. With its home in Raleigh, North Carolina's spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall, the symphony performs about 60 concerts a year in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. The orchestra has also appeared twice at Carnegie Hall in New York City and once each at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and Orchestra Hall in Chicago. Additionally, the Symphony has released five recordings, the most recent of which is "Sketches: 2004-05" with Music Director Grant Llewellyn, featuring a work composed by the Symphony's bass trombonist, Terry Mizesko. Some of the top soloists in the world, such as Itzhak Perlman, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Pinchas Zukerman and Lynn Harrell, have performed with the North Carolina Symphony, and we look forward to welcoming more noted guest artists in the future.

NC Theatre - The mission of North Carolina Theatre is to strengthen the cultural vitality of the region and cultivate musical theatre appreciation by producing outstanding professional Broadway musicals and developing the next generation of artists through youth education, performance and outreach programs.

Pinecone - Traditional music includes fiddle tunes, ballads, bluegrass, blues, gospel, swing, folk, and all the variations and derivations that our culture has nurtured. It is the folk product of community heritage and spirit. it is the musical spice that gives North Carolina its own taste. It is music that increases the attractiveness of our community and contributes a cohesive cultural identity. Its performers learned from their families or community or deliberately sought teachers from a traditional musical heritage.

Raleigh Little Theatre - RLT produces 11 shows each season, professionally supported by complete on-site costume and scene shops, along with a full and part-time professional staff of 16 and more than 500 community volunteers. With the largest subscription base of any community theatre in the area (3,000+), RLT serves more than 40,000 people with shows each season.