Pafos Aphrodite Festival Cyprus

The Pafos Aphrodite Festival Cyprus is a company established to promote Paphos in Cyprus as an international centre of high-profile cultural events. Its aim is to organise and manage a yearly international artistic event that takes place at the square in front of the medieval castle at the harbour in Kato Paphos. It organises and hosts an opera performance at the end of August or early September and has over the years invited a variety of internationally acclaimed companies and performances to the festival:

Productions

year	opera	composer	company
1999	Aida	Giuseppe Verdi	Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow
2000	Carmen	Georges Bizet	Estonian National Opera
2001	Nabucco	Giuseppe Verdi	Polish National Opera
2001	Zorba the Greek	Mikis Theodorakis	Polish National Opera
2002	Turandot	Giacomo Puccini	Polish National Opera
2003	Tosca	Giacomo Puccini	Arena di Verona
2004	Rigoletto	Giuseppe Verdi	Polish National Opera
2005	La Traviata	Giuseppe Verdi	Polish National Opera
2006	Un Ballo in Maschera	Giuseppe Verdi	Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg
2007	Il trovatore	Giuseppe Verdi	Abai State Academic Opera & Ballet Theatre
2008	Madama Butterfly	Giacomo Puccini	Lyric Theatre Trieste
2009	Lakmé	Léo Delibes	Sofia National Opera
2010	La bohème	Giacomo Puccini	Slovak National Theatre
2011	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Jacques Offenbach	Opera of the National Theatre Prague
2012	Otello	Giuseppe Verdi	Slovak National Theatre
2013	L'elisir d'amore	Gaetano Donizetti	Opera Futura Verona and Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
2014	Così fan tutte	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Opera Futura Verona and Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
2015	La Cenerentola	Gioachino Rossini	Ramfis Productions and Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
2016	Don Giovanni	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	CE.F.A.C. and Cyprus Symphony Orchestra

References

• Associated Press, Aida by Bolshoi Opera launches Paphos Aphrodite Festival, September 11, 1999.

External links

• Pafos Aphrodite Festival Cyprus homepage
• Ramfis Production homepage
• Formazione Alta Cultura homepage