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:[1]

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
2014 Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera Futura Verona

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