Valamar Blog

The Dubrovnik Summer Festival traditionally concluded one festival season and announced another, starting with St. Vlaho’s Festivity. A multimedia monograph (DVD) dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Summer Festival was presented on 31 January in the Revelin Fort.

The framework which consisted of large orchestras at the beginning and the end of the Festival was preserved with a rich and various music programme. Zagreb Symphony Orchestra and the ”Ivan Goran Kovacic” Academic Choir will open the Festival with their performances. One of the best known classical pieces, the Carmina Burana opera, will be performed on 11 July in memoriam of a great Croatian conductor Vjekoslav Šutej.

From the numerous concerts included in the programme, we wish to single out the evening of Baroque Handel’s and Vivaldi’s arias performed by the excellent Croatian contratenor Max Emanuel Cencic and a recital by Zoran Todorovich, a tenor who will sing Puccini’s and Bellini’s songs. We should also mention the performance by Stefan Milankovich in an interesting combination with Edin Karamazov, as well as Cellomania, the Zagreb Quartet, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra etc.

A world-known singer Giorgio Surian and Valentina Fijacko will, accompanied by the Varazdin Chamber Music Orchestra, perform Pergolesi’s ”The Servant Mistress“ (”La serva padrona”) and Telemann’s comic cantata ”The Schoolmaster” (”Schulmeister“). Alongside the traditional performances by the folklore ensembles Lado from Zagreb and Lindo from Dubrovnik, the Summer Festival will include many other additional programmes.

Don’t miss out on yet another Dubrovnik summer cultural fever from 10 July to 25 August 2010!