Koncertna dvorana Vatroslava Lisinskog
Modernist concert venue with a copper roof, home to two orchestras and a vast exhibition foyer.
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This guide to the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb follows the composer whose name is on the building: Ignatius Fuchs, a young clerk of the eighteen-forties who wrote what is counted as the first Croatian opera. It takes you to Prague in eighteen forty-seven, where he went to train, and to the patriotic Illyrian movement that shaped him. It also reaches forward to the hall's own opening night in nineteen seventy-three. Best heard outside the main entrance, facing the copper roof.
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