{"id":477193,"date":"2026-02-15T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477193\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:03:16","slug":"what-to-expect-in-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477193\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect in Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"uj1r8\">Your guide to Croatia&#8217;s pre-selection for Vienna<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"xwwht\">HOW TO WATCH: The final of Dora 2026 starts at 20:15 CET on Sunday 15 February. Croatian viewers will be able to watch via broadcaster HRT, while international audiences can stream it live on the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"84bkv\">Viewers have already been able to enjoy two semi-finals of Dora 2026, during which 24 entries became the 16 finalists that will compete on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"aatcq\">Barbara Kolar, Du\u0161ko \u010curli\u0107, Ivan Vuku\u0161i\u0107 and Iva \u0160ulenti\u0107 will be your hosts for the Dora final. The opening act will come courtesy of last year&#8217;s winner Marko Bo\u0161njak, while an interval performance will be delivered by Ton\u010di Hulji\u0107 and the group Magazin, who have participated in Dora many times and represent Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1995.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Dora 2026 stage\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/178521d9-d389-412a-9aa9-25ed8110135b-width=800-width=800.jpeg\" width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4495a\">You can <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLmWYEDTNOGUICGZ-b-VUmPsI2TqathGEz&amp;si=WxN4y8uP8smQQjjF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">listen to the full Dora 2026 lineup<\/a> over on the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2ppm9\">These are the Dora finalists in the order that they will be performed on Sunday evening:<\/p>\n<p>Ananda \u2013 Dora<\/p>\n<p>Sergej \u2013 Scream<\/p>\n<p>Noelle \u2013 Uninterrupted<\/p>\n<p>Alen \u0110uras \u2013 From Ashes to Flame<\/p>\n<p>Irma \u2013 Ni Traga<\/p>\n<p>Lana Demarin \u2013 Mantra<\/p>\n<p>Ema Bubi\u0107 \u2013 Vrijeme Za Nas<\/p>\n<p>Lima Len \u2013 Raketa<\/p>\n<p>Lana Mandari\u0107 \u2013 Tama<\/p>\n<p>Ritam Noir \u2013 Profumi Di Mare<\/p>\n<p>Marko Kutli\u0107 \u2013 Neotu\u0111ivo<\/p>\n<p>Devin \u2013 Over Me<\/p>\n<p>LELEK \u2013 Andromeda<\/p>\n<p>ToMa \u2013 Ledina<\/p>\n<p>Stela Rade \u2013 Nema Te<\/p>\n<p>Cold Snap \u2013 Mucho Macho<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A decorative pink-to-blue gradient line\" height=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Website_Divider-width=800.png\" width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6ala\">Scores for the 16 Dora finalists will come via a public vote (50%), an international jury (25%) and a national jury (25%).<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"14sva\">The winner of the 2025 edition of Dora was Marko Bo\u0161njak, who took his song Poison Cake to represent Croatia at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fhob3\">At Basel 2025, Croatia celebrated its 30th appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest, following the country&#8217;s debut in 1993.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your guide to Croatia&#8217;s pre-selection for Vienna HOW TO WATCH: The final of Dora 2026 starts at 20:15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-477193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}