Split Summer Festival – more than 60 cultural events

Split

ZAGREB, 4 July (Hina) – The Croatian National Theatre (HNK) Split on Wednesday presented the programme for the 71st Split Summer Festival.

The festival is taking place from 14 July to 14 August 2025 and featuring more than 60 opera, drama, ballet, and concert performances, as well as film screenings, exhibitions, and other events at different venues.

HNK Split director Vicko Bilandžić said that this year’s edition is dedicated to the phenomenon of leaders and leadership.

In this context, two major premieres have been announced – Ivo Tijardović’s opera “Diocletian” and Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”.

Although the festival deals with serious topics this year, it will conclude on a lighter note.

The festival brings together as many as five orchestras: the HNK Split Orchestra, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, which celebrates its 100th anniversary, the Croatian Navy Orchestra, marking the 30th anniversary of the military and police Operation Storm, the Macedonian Jazz Orchestra, and the HRT Orchestra, which will perform music from Tijardović’s opera.

The festival, held in Split since 1954, will once again transform the city’s historic spaces into stages blending art and ambience in a unique way.

What’s on at the 71st Split Summer Festival can be found on the official website here.