🇭🇷 Croatia: Dora 2026 Guest Performers & Voting Rules Announced

The Croatian broadcaster HRT has announced the artists who will be making guest performances at Dora 2026, as well as how voting in the competition will work.

Guest Performers

Across the three nights of Dora 2026, musicians from the history of Dora and Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest will perform for audiences. In Semi-Final One, Danijela Martinović, who represented Croatia at Eurovision 1995 and 1998, will perform. Semi-Final Two will see Luka Nižetić perform a compilation of the five songs that he has competed in Dora with.

For the final of Dora 2026, Marko Bošnjak will return to the contest stage having won the contest in 2025. Tonči Huljić and the group Magazin will be performing during the interval.

Voting in Dora 2026

In the Semi-Finals of Dora 2026 each of the eight acts that will qualify from each Semi-Final for the Grand Final will be chosen by televoting alone.

In the Grand Final, the winner will be determined by 50% televoting and 50% jury voting. The juries will be formed of four juries in Croatia (Zagreb, Split, Rijeka and Osijek) and four international juries. Each jury will be formed of three jurors who must be involved in music in their professional careers. The juries in Croatia will also vote in the Semi-Final, but will only be used should the televote fail.

Dora 2026

Dora 2026 will take place on February 12, 13, and 15. The 24 acts that will compete to represent Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 have been divided into two different semi-finals in the following way:

Semi-Final One – February 12

Lima Len – “Raketa” (Rocket)
Jasmina Makota – “Higher”
Ananda – “Dora”
Tony Sky – “O ne!” (Oh no!)
Fran Uccellini – “Ako bolje bude sutra” (If it’s better tomorrow)
Ema Bubić – “Vrijeme za nas” (Time for us)
Noelle – “Uninterrupted”
Alen Đuras – “From Ashes to Flame”
Fenksta – “Memento mori”
Cold Snap – “Mucho Macho”
ToMa – “Ledina” (Meadow)
LELEK – “Andromeda”

Semi-Final Two – February 13

Ritam Noir – “Profumi di mare” (Scents of the sea)
Irma – “Ni traga” (No trace)
Gabrijel Ivić – “Light up”
Zevin – “My Mind”
Ivan Sever – “Crying Eyes”
Lana Mandarić – “Tama” (Darkness)
Stela Rade – “Nema te” (You’re gone)
Devin – “Over Me”
Kandžija – “3 ujutro” (3 a.m.)
Marko Kutlić – “Neotuđivo” (Inalienable)
Sergej – “Scream”
Lara Demarin – “Mantra”

8 entries from each semi-final will advance to the final on February 15.

Dora 2026 will take place in HRT Studios in Zagreb and will consist of two semi-finals and a final. The winner will represent Croatia in Vienna at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest and will perform in the first half of the first semi-final, on May 12.

Marko Bošnjak represented Croatia at Eurovision 2025 with the song “Poison Cake”. He finished 12th in Semi-Final 1 with a total of 28 points and thus, did not qualify for the Grand Final.

Source: HRT, HRT