Croatian National Theatre
Grand opera and drama house with a painted ceremonial curtain and a sculpted fountain at its door.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb is about the people who worked inside it, from the more than two hundred labourers who broke ground in eighteen ninety-four to the actors of its resident company. It centres on Vlaho Bukovac's ceremonial curtain and on Marija Ružička Strozzi, a Moravian-born actress who made her Zagreb debut in eighteen sixty-eight playing an orphan girl. Stand facing the main facade on the square while you listen.
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