The gala concert on the occasion of the 40^th anniversary of inclusion of the Old City of Dubrovnik on UNESCO's World Heritage List and the 10^th anniversary of inclusion of the Festivity of St Blaise on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, was performed by the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ivan Josip Skender, with renowned soloists Marija Kuhar Šoša, Dubravka Šeparović Mušović, Domagoj Dorotić and Ljubomir Puškarić, last night, 1 February at the main conference hall of Hotel Rixos Libertas. 

© Željko Tutnjević 

The concert programme consisted of the most beautiful arias from Verdi's operas Il trovatore, Don Carlo and Rigoletto, Léo Delibes’s opera Lakméand arias from Ivan Zajc’s opera Nikola Šubić Zrinjski and Jakov Gotovac’s Ero the Joker. The programme also included the works of Boris Papandopulo, Blagoje Bersa and Luka Sorkočević.

The concert on the occasion of the 40^th anniversary of inclusion of the Old City of Dubrovnik on UNESCO’s World Heritage List was organized by the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in collaboration with the City of Dubrovnik and the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, supported by Hotel Rixos Libertas.

@ Željko Tutnjević