The importance of cultural management should be high on each country's priority list. Institutions operating in this circle need to be improved and guided with the goal of daily progress. The field of political culture at the global level is constantly changing, expanding, and sometimes dispersing in large circles, and it is difficult to keep up with such developments. No, first of all it is necessary to see the work of our cultural institutions and their structure of the current management in culture, to reveal and show the public all the shortcomings of the same. The main and reference example of this thesis is the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, which certainly needs the implementation of modern management methods in culture, and their implementation. Only when the modern model of management in culture begins to be applied will problems arise that now come to the surface in fragments. Neglecting the basic postulates of art and its progress through the most important things in every theater, namely artists, creative and technical staff and all employees. They need to be satisfied and only then do we produce art, especially the most perfect music among the arts. The leadership of Opera, Ballet and Drama should not be one abnormal body of a great mastodon, but divided in its full form into Opera and Ballet, as independent statutorically and legally as Drama. The guidelines for progress and work are different, the directions of action are on opposite sides. Through this work, we will try to present fragments of the error in the work of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, trying to give an honest opinion about the future of this cultural institution. Current and former employees are very aware of the situation, they were ready to say something about the current situation, which is also realistic. The only right path and view towards the future of opera and ballet is the need to separate the Opera and Ballet Directorate into an independent statutory and legal unit of a public institution, which would have the status of National / State Opera and Ballet Theater of the Republic of Croatia, Croatian State Opera and Ballet.