Croatian National Theater in Split
Neo-Baroque theatre rebuilt after a fire, blending its original facade with a modern stage wing.
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This guide to the Croatian National Theater in Split covers the building's odd start in 1893 as the Split Municipal Theatre, once briefly the largest stage in southeast Europe yet staffed for decades by touring Italian troupes rather than a resident company. It follows the fire that tore through the building one night in February 1970, and the decade the actors, singers and stagehands spent performing out of an army officers club and a converted cinema rather than let the company go dark. You'll hear about architect Bozidar Rasica's years spent drawing up plans while the original neo-Baroque facade sat waiting. Look closely at that facade today and you can still trace where his addition begins.
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