Open Square Day is an event that Croatian National Theater (HNK) started last year in efforts to present high culture as approachable, exciting and entertaining. Last year’s event was closely tied to the grand reopening of the Music Academy across the street from marshal Tito square on which the theater is situated. The purpose of the event was to bring students and professionals together to promote and present their opera, ballet, classical, chamber, string and brass music sections to the general public.
Prompted by the success of last year’s event, HNK has decided to go at it again this Saturday, September 26th. This year’s partner of the event is Randez-vous festival of french culture in Croatia, and Open Square Day will be a part of their White Night (Nuit Blanche) program encompassing different aspects of culture presented on the streets of Zagreb throughout Saturday night.
Open Square Day starts at 16h with ballet lessons for children and ends at 1:30 with an open air party in front of the theater.
The full program is as follows:
16 – 16:30 west lawn
Zagreb’s School of Classical Ballet
The only high school of this type in Croatia will hold basic ballet lessons for children.
16:40-16:55 in front of HNK
Opera on the square
G. Verdi Rigoletto, aria La donna e mobile by Stjepan Franetovic
G. Puccini La Bohème, aria Donde lieta by Tamara Franetovic Felbinger
G. Bizet Carmen
, Habanera by Dubravka Separovic Musovic
G. Puccini Turandot
, aria Nessun dorma by Stjepan Franetovic
17 – 17:40 east lawn
String quartet from HNK’s orchestra
Vlatka Peljhan, Tin Matijevic, Magda Skaramuca, Petra Kusan
W. A. Mozart String quartet in D-dur KV575, (Allegretto i Andante)
A. Borodin String quartet no.2, Notturno
Solists: Mia Domacina, Tena Lebaric, Alen Rusko
W. A. Mozart Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni and Zerlin duet (La ci darem la mano)
Ch. W. Gluck Orfei i Evridika, Orfei’s aria (Che faro senza Euridice)
W.A. Mozart Figaro’s wedding, Susanne’s aria (Deh vieni non tardar)
17 h east lawn
Gold embroidery workshops
17:45 – 18:15 Well of Life
IRIS BROSCH vs. OPERA HNK
AGEISM: Transfer – part one
G.Puccini Gianni Schicchi
, Laurette’s aria (O mio babbino caro) by Ivana Lazar
G.Puccini La Bohème, Rodolf’s aria (Che gelida manina) by Stjepan Franetović
18:15 – 18:55 east lawn
Musical academy’s brass quintet SIRIUS
Performing Boris Papandopulo, Claude-Paul Taffanel, Franzi Danzi
19:10 – 19:30, Well of Life
IRIS BROSCH vs. OPERA HNK
AGEISM: Wisdom – part two
G.Puccini La Bohème,
Musette’s aria (Quando me’n vo’) by Ivana Lazar
C. Saint-Saens Samson i Dalila, Dalile’s aria (Mon coeur) by Dubravka Separovic Musovic
19:40 – 20:00, west lawn
ANDREJA VESELA, piano concert
Chopin Poloneza in A-dur op. 40, no. 1
Liszt Transcendental etude no. 2 in a-mol
Debussy Pour les octaves, Etude no. 5
Rahmanjinov Etude of paintings op. 33, no. 7 in Es-dur
20:00 – 20:30 Musical academy
ZAGREB PHILHARMONIC
dir:Veton Marevci
B. Bersa Idyl
Chaminade Concertino for a flute, op. 107
Sorkocevic Simphony in D-dur
Soloist on flute: Marta Sesar
20,40 – 21,00
SOUND PERFORMANCE
Alen and Nenad Sinkauz, Vedran Petrnel i Nenad Kovacic
21:05 – 21:30
IRIS BROSCH VS. OPERA HNK
AGEISM – Unknown, part three
G.Bizet Carmen (Seguidilla) by Dubravka Separovicc Musovic
W. A. Mozart Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni’s and Zerline’s aria (La ci darem la mano) by Tamara Franetovic Felbinger i Ljubo Puskaric
21:30 – 21:40 in front of HNK
HNK’s drama section performance
22:10 – 22:25
SOUND PERFORMANCE 2
Alen i Nenad Sinkauz, Vedran Petrnel i Nenad Kovacic
22:45 – 23:15 HNK facade
ORNAMENT, Ivan Lusicic Liik’s projection mapping
23:30 – 23:45 around HNK
CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATER BALLET
Ryan Teague Cascades
23:45 – 00:00
SOUND PERFORMANCE 3
Alen i Nenad Sinkauz, Vedran Petrnel i Nenad Kovaci
00:00 – 00:30 HNK facade
Ivan Lusicic Liik’s projection mapping
00:30 – 1:30
DJ party
16 – 18, 23 – 02 HNK
The secret history of HNK
Night tours of Croatian Nation Theater led by their actors.
The fallowing institutions orbiting marshal Tito square will also participate with their own programs indoors. Those include:
The Musical Academy
Museum of crafts and arts
Croatian museum of schooling
Folk songs and dances ensemble LADO
Academy of Dramatic Arts
