THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CROATIAN NATIONAL OPERA REPERTOIRE CREATION – THE CROATIAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL OPERA TRILOGY (MISLAV, BAN LEGET, NIKOLA ŠUBIĆ ZRINJSKI) by IVAN von ZAJC

Zajc's Croatian national opera trilogy Mislav (1870), Ban Leget (1872) and Nikola Šubić Zrinjski (1876) was composed in a sequence and by that time Zajc already had had compositional experience in operas, acquired in both his early and intensive operatic periods. After a series of operettas, composing of a historic opera with national elements was a conditio sine qua non, especially after Zajc's a…