This year the Dubrovnik Summer Festival is being held under the slogan "The Myths of the City".
During the 47-day festival, some 80 plays, concerts, dance performances and other events will take place at about 30 venues in this southern Croatian seaside city, featuring 2,000 musicians, singers, actors, artists, dancers and culutral workers.
In attendance at the opening ceremony was President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Culture Minister Nina Obuljen Korzinek and some other state officials.