By raising the Libertas flag on the city bell tower and with the verses of the Hymn of Freedom in front of the church of St. Vlaho, the 72nd Dubrovnik Summer Festival will be officially opened on Saturday night, reports tportal.hr.
Over the next 47 days, until August 25, nearly seventy drama, music, dance, folklore, and other programs will be performed at fifteen stage and ambient locations.
The opening ceremony is directed by Hrvoje Korbar and features the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestro Stjepan Vuger, percussion ensemble Percussion Club and Folklore Ensemble Linđo with the participation of the Festival Drama Ensemble, which will be joined by acting and dance students from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Attendance at the ceremony will require an EU digital covid certificate or other valid evidence of vaccination, a negative test result, or recovery from infection.
The drama program of the festival will also include two premieres. The first is ‘Out of Yourself’, the work of Nataša Rajković, Ivan Penović, and the acting ensemble, as part of the EU project ‘Port of Dreamers’. As part of it, the Games will also feature the play ‘Celebration’ of the Slovenian National Theater from Maribor by Ivor Martinić and directed by Jan Krmelj, and the play ‘Under the Same Roof’ directed by Ivana Janošev and co-produced by the civil society organization Kulturanova and Újvidéki Színház, a minority Hungarian theater. from Novi Sad.
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The second premiere will be ‘The Lion’s Head’, based on the novel of the same name for the first time by Ivan Salečić, adapted by playwright Marijana Fumić and directed by Aida Bukvić. The plays “Hamlet”, “Mara and Kata” and “Grižula” will be shown again, and the Student Theater Lero will perform the play “Jugo” by the author and director Davor Mojaš.
The music program of the festival will include, among others, the Percussion Club, the HRT Choir and Jazz Orchestra, Lovre Marušić, Julija Ležnjeva with the ensemble La Voce Strumentale, Eva Šulić with the chamber ensemble of the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and quartet, Martina Filjak, Felix Klieser, Andrej Bielow, Lawrence Brownlee with Vesna Podrug Kossjanenko, Petrit Çeku, Goran Filipec, Richard Bona, Alfred Rodríguez.
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The unique music program “Dubrovnik on the music cliff” brings performances by Lovro Mercep, Marija Grazio, and Dubravka Separovic Musovic.
The festival will close with an opera gala concert by the HRT Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ivan Repušić with Diana Damrau, Nicolas Testé, and Roko Radovan.
According to the financial plan, the budget of the 72nd Dubrovnik Summer Festival is almost 8 million kunas, which is 1.5 million more than last year.
The audience will follow the performances by maintaining a physical distance from one seat with the obligatory wearing of face masks.
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