Stjepan Miletić: Croatian theatre history and the making of HNK Zagreb — slow Croatian podcast

There is a name every student of Croatian theatre history must know. Stjepan Miletić — intendant, director, writer, reformer. A man who, in just four seasons between 1894 and 1898, transformed the Croatian National Theatre from a struggling institution into one of the leading theatre houses in Europe.This episode for A2–B1 Croatian learners moves slowly through Miletić's life and legacy — the reforms he introduced, the acting school he founded, the repertoire he built, and the great night of 14 October 1895, when his Slava umjetnosti was performed in the new HNK building before Emperor Franz Joseph I and thousands of Zagrebians.One hundred and thirty years later, the same institution opened a new stage — its first new stage since that evening in 1895.They called the opening Slava umjetnosti 2.0.Some names do not age. Spoken slowly and clearly in Croatian, for heritage speakers and diaspora learners at A2–B1 level.More about learning Croatian: talktimecro.com