Merrill Auditorium, Performance venue in Portland, United States
Merrill Auditorium is a performance hall in the Arts District of downtown Portland, Maine, built for theater, music, and dance. The hall seats around 1,900 people and is designed with acoustics that support a range of live performance formats.
The auditorium opened in 1912 and was established as the city's main performance space from the start. It went through several rounds of renovation over the following decades to keep it in working order and adapted to changing needs.
The Portland Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Ballet call this hall home, which makes it the center of the city's performing arts life for many residents. Attending a show here means sharing a space that local artists and audiences have returned to for generations.
The hall sits in the center of Portland and is easy to reach on foot or by public transit from most parts of the city. Checking the program in advance is useful since the range of events goes from symphony concerts and ballet to other stage formats.
Inside the hall stands the Kotzschmar Organ, a large historic pipe organ donated to the city of Portland in the early 20th century. The organ is still played regularly in concert, making it one of the few instruments of its kind in active use in a working concert hall.
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