With the raising of the Libertas flag to the lyrics of the Hymn to Freedom on July 10 at 9 PM in front of the church of St. Blaise 74th Dubrovnik Summer Festival was opened and will traditionally be held until August 25 at various scenic and ambient locations in the city of Dubrovnik.
74th Dubrovnik Summer FESTIVAL
This year’s ceremonial opening of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, as the center of Croatian and world spirit and culture, as a place of creation and a meeting place of ideas, was traditionally held in front of the church of St. Blaise.
The opening ceremony grew out of the collective memory of carnival, the period of the year when traveling actors, troubadours, and other artists could enter the city and entertain the citizens with their shows and performances until Ash Wednesday.
The Prince of the Republic of Dubrovnik gives the actors the keys to the City and thus symbolically allows them to perform there. This year, the program returns to its basic settings: the urban ritual and includes the traditional basics of the opening, which thematizes the basic settings of Dubrovnik’s urbanity – the city’s recent history.
47 days of the festival in its 74th edition
The Dubrovnik Summer Festival is one of the oldest festivals in Croatia, which gathers the best of Croatian dramatic art on the streets and squares of Dubrovnik. The Dubrovnik Summer Festival is the pinnacle of theater art – which has captivated with its attractiveness for 74 years and is considered a ‘must-see’ event in Dubrovnik by every Croatian drama artist and many foreigners.
In 47 days, the festival will offer almost 70 dramatic, musical, dance, folklore, and other performances to a large domestic and foreign audience. On July 11, the first exhibition of the 74th Dubrovnik Summer Festival, a series of Croatian painters and graphic artist Fadil Vejzović under the name “Laka je mlados”, opened in the atrium of the Sponza Palace.
