The exhibition was opened at the Institute of Cetral European Culture by Croatian Ambassador in Budapest Ivan Bandić, Administration Manager at the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture Zsolt Jekely, the Institute Director Peter Modos, the Museum Adviser Marija Tonković, and the Dubrovnik Festival Manager Ivica Prlender.
 
Dubrovnik Festival thanks the City of Dubrovnik which recognized and enabled this project, perceived by the Dubrovnik Festival as the initiation of a typical work-in-progress project. We are happy that it started precisely here in Budapest, capital of the neighboring country with which both the Festival and Dubrovnik have had major long-term historic and cultural connections. Thus, famous Hungarian artists have been included in the crystallization of the world cultural phenomenon called the Dubrovnik Summer Festival from the very beginning – said Mr. Prlender, who also presented the programmed of the forthcoming Festival season.
 
Hungarian actor Peter Vida, who had taken part in the 2004 Dubrovnik Summer Festival, and Joško Ševo played a scene from Držić’s comedy Uncle Maroje both in the Hungarian and Croatian language, which was warmly received by the audience.
 
Goran Vranić presented himself within the same project with the exhibition of photographs entitled Dubrovnik / During the Whole Year, and both can be seen by 11 April 2008. Apart from the exhibitions, the visitors will have an opportunity to see the extracts from the Festival plays on two video walls and thousands of photographs on the screens, and they can also surf the Dubrovnik Festival web site via the touch screen.

Source: Dubrovnik Summer Festival

Photo: Damil Kalogjera