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Tomislav Bralić and Klapa Intrade at Trsat: a klapa evening above Rijeka

Tomislav Bralić and Klapa Intrade are coming to Trsat Castle on Friday, 19.06.2026 at 21:00, to the area of Nugent Park next to Trsat Castle. It is an ambience that suits their music well: an open space, a view toward Kvarner, historic walls and an audience that, at performances like this, rarely remains only an observer.

This concert has not been announced as an experiment or as a project with unknown guests, but as an evening of recognizable Dalmatian song. In the foreground will be the voice of Tomislav Bralić, the polyphony of Klapa Intrade and a repertoire that has been built for years on the blend of klapa singing, festival melodicism and songs that the audience knows how to sing without screens or reminders. Tickets for this event are in demand.

Rijeka is an interesting host for such a concert. Trsat is not a classic indoor venue entered directly from a parking lot, but an urban viewpoint reached with a little climbing, planning and patience. Precisely for that reason, an evening at the Castle has a different rhythm: the arrival is part of the experience, and the first tones begin in a space that already has character before the concert.

The voice by which modern klapa song is recognized

Tomislav Bralić has for decades been one of the most recognizable names on the Croatian klapa scene. His warm baritone and manner of phrasing have given Klapa Intrade a clear color: the song remains klapa at its foundation, but it also addresses an audience that perhaps does not follow klapa festivals, but remembers choruses from radio, television broadcasts, summer stages and large halls.

Klapa Intrade grew out of the Zadar musical circle, and with Bralić over time created a repertoire that can be heard in more intimate spaces, on coastal squares, in fortresses and in large concert arenas. This is a rare path for a klapa ensemble: to remain tied to polyphony, while at the same time attracting an audience that comes for emotion, collective singing and songs that are passed from family to family.

Their career is especially often connected with the fact that they brought klapa song closer to large concert spaces. Arena Zagreb in 2011 remained an important point in that story, and later performances throughout Croatia and abroad confirm that not only a narrow circle of genre connoisseurs gathers around Bralić and Intrade. At their concerts one can meet longtime fans, people who grew up with Dalmatian song, but also an audience that comes because of several big choruses and the atmosphere of singing together.

Songs the audience carries in its voice

For the Rijeka concert, an exact list of songs has not been published, so it makes no sense to write the set list in advance as a finished thing. Still, Bralić and Intrade have a clearly recognizable enough catalogue that one can speak about the songs that form the backbone of their concert identity. These are compositions in which Dalmatian longing, love images, family motifs, the sea, departure and return alternate.

• "Zora bila" is one of the songs by which the broadest audience recognizes them most quickly, with a chorus that the audience often takes over at concerts.
• "Ne mogu te prestat jubit" belongs to the emotional part of the repertoire, with a melody that works well in an open space.
• "Zalutali pogled" and related songs show how the klapa sound can be brought closer to a pop audience without losing its polyphonic foundation.
• "Kapetane, tribali bi doma" carries that kind of Mediterranean melancholy that is easily connected with summer concerts by the sea.
• "Croatio, iz duše te ljubim" is part of the broader patriotic and ceremonial layer of their repertoire.

Such songs do not need a large stage story in order to have an effect. What matters most to them is that the voice is heard, that the polyphony remains clear and that the audience has space to react. At Trsat, precisely that closeness between performers and listeners could be the greatest advantage of the evening.

The current phase of the career: anniversary, anthology and summer performances

Bralić and Klapa Intrade have in recent seasons entered a phase in which they simultaneously look back on the path they have traveled and continue to expand their concert calendar. The year 2025 was connected with marking 40 years of the klapa, and performances were announced at locations that are important to them in their career. This is not only a commemorative number, but a good context for the concert in Rijeka: the audience is not coming to listen to performers at the beginning of their journey, but an ensemble that has already shaped its own concert language.

In December 2025, the release "Antologija" was published, with 40 songs and a duration longer than two and a half hours. Such a selection shows well how broad their catalogue is: from songs close to klapa tradition to compositions that have become part of general domestic pop memory. For visitors to the Rijeka concert, this means that the evening has a firm foothold in familiar material, but also that a cross-section of different periods may be heard.

The album "Još bi tija" further strengthened their newer phase, with authorial signatures of people who have long been writing for Dalmatian song. With Bralić and Intrade, continuity is important: there is no sharp break between earlier and newer songs, but the repertoire is arranged as a sequence of motifs - love, home, the sea, family, homeland and togetherness.

Trsat Castle and Nugent Park as a concert stage

Trsat Castle, or the Trsat fortress, is one of the most recognizable viewpoints in Rijeka. The City of Rijeka states that it is located on a hill 138 meters high, above the gorge of the Rječina and with views toward the city. Nugent Park, the space next to the Castle, is a former outer defensive courtyard and today functions as part of the Trsat whole.

For a concert, this is more important than the postcard image itself. An open space changes the way of listening: the sound is not enclosed by the walls of a hall, the audience moves differently, and the evening air and view toward Kvarner create a frame that is difficult to produce through scenography. In klapa music, in which the voice and the shared breathing of the ensemble are at the center, such an ambience can be very rewarding.

Seats are disappearing quickly.

• Concert location: Trsat Castle - Nugent Park, Rijeka.
• Park address: Partizanski put 9b, 51000 Rijeka.
• Ambience: an open space next to the historic Castle, at the Trsat viewpoint above the city.
• Event start: 21:00.
• The ticket is valid for one day.

For visitors coming for the first time, it is good to understand Trsat as a district that is not reached simply "right to the door". Part of the audience will come by public transport, part on foot, part by taxi or car to the wider Trsat zone. It is best to plan on arriving earlier, especially because summer programs at the Castle do not take place in a space with a large access plateau like sports halls.

How to get there and what to plan before departure

From the center of Rijeka toward Trsat, bus line number 2 operates, and the nearest useful point for arrival toward the Castle is the area by the Shrine of Our Lady of Trsat, from where one continues on foot toward the Castle. For those who want to combine the concert with a short city walk, there is also another route: the Trsat Stairs, which connect the city center and Trsat.

By car, one should be more careful in planning. Trsat has streets and parking zones that quickly become burdened when a larger number of visitors gather at the same time. The City of Rijeka indicates that most public parking lots are managed by Rijeka plus, and for visitors arriving from other cities it is more practical to decide in advance whether they will park in the wider center and then continue by bus or on foot, or look for a space closer to Trsat.

For a more pleasant arrival, it is useful to have a simple plan:

• check the city transport timetable before departure, especially for the return after the concert;
• arrive earlier because of the climb, possible crowds and finding the entrance to the event area;
• choose comfortable footwear, because Trsat includes walking uphill and over stony or uneven parts;
• bring a light layer of clothing, because in an open space the temperature after sunset can change noticeably;
• do not rely on arriving by car at the last minute if you do not know the district.

The opening time of the entrance is not stated in the available announcements, so it is more reasonable to plan arrival with a reserve than to count on entering immediately before 21:00. At open-air concerts, the most is gained precisely when one arrives without rushing: there is time for orientation, the view from Trsat and entering the mood before the first songs.

Rijeka as host: a city that receives summer concerts well

Rijeka is rewarding for visitors from other parts of Croatia because the concert can be combined with a short stay in the city. Trsat gives a different experience from Korzo and the coastal zone: it is calmer, more historically layered and physically raised above the city. Before the concert, it is possible to walk around the Castle, look toward Kvarner or spend time in the Trsat part of the city.

In recent years, Summer at the Castle has developed into a program that turns Trsat Castle and Nugent Park into the city's open-air stages. Concerts, plays, programs for children and other cultural content alternate there, so Bralić's performance does not come into an empty space, but into an already recognizable summer rhythm of Rijeka. This is important for the audience because the location has experience with evening events and visitors of different generations.

For whom this concert is especially attractive

This is a concert for an audience that wants to hear klapa song in a format larger than an intimate konoba, but without the coldness of a large sports hall. It will mean the most to those who have followed Bralić and Intrade for years, because Trsat will offer closeness and a space in which the voice can come to the fore. But this is not only a concert for loyal fans.

It is also attractive to a broader audience that knows several key songs, couples looking for an evening outing in Rijeka, families who love Dalmatian song and travelers who want to connect a summer concert with an urban ambience. Klapa music here does not act as a museum genre, but as a living practice: the audience listens, sings, comments on the lyrics and often reacts to the first bars before the song reaches the chorus.

What to expect from the evening without inventing details

There is no confirmed information about guests, an opening act, the duration of the performance or special production effects. Therefore, they should not be expected as a promise either. What can be expected is a concert built around the voice, polyphony and songs that have endured several concert seasons. With Bralić and Intrade, the strongest moments most often arise when the audience catches the chorus and when the boundary between stage and auditorium is almost erased for several minutes.

Trsat Castle can give such moments a very natural frame. It is not a space in which everything comes down to a screen, lighting and a distant stage. Here, the view, the acoustic feeling of an open space, the summer evening and the fact that the audience stands or sits near the historic core of the city are important. It is worth securing tickets on time.

For those who come because of one song, the evening will probably open the door toward the rest of the repertoire as well. For those who come because of the entire career, the Rijeka concert will be an opportunity to hear the current phase of Bralić and Intrade in a space that does not require excessive scenography. Voices, well-known verses and Trsat as a backdrop that does not pretend to have a Mediterranean atmosphere, but truly has it, are enough.

Sources:
- Event page - confirmed event name, date, time and location in Nugent Park.
- Scardona - information on the current phase of the career, anniversary, concert continuity and releases by Tomislav Bralić and Klapa Intrade.
- Visit Rijeka - information on Trsat Castle, Nugent Park, the address and arrival by bus or the Trsat Stairs.
- City of Rijeka - historical context of Trsat Castle and information on its position on a hill above Rijeka.
- Apple Music and Deezer - information on the 2025 release "Antologija" and the song list.