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JANUARY 2017

4/1/2017

100 Guitars

CYPRUS GUITAR ORCHESTRA

 

The largest guitar concert ever held in Cyprus, led by conductor Vangelis Bountounis and Artistic Director Antonis Koizas, with the guitar duet Stelios & Vassilis, guitar soloist Maro Razi, string virtuoso players String Demons et.al.

 

Vocals: Margarita Elias, Dalida Mitzi

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7/1/2017 (170’)

Nabucco

G. VERDI

THE MET LIVE IN HD

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime collaborator James Levine.

 

Liudmyla Monastyrska is his daughter Abigaille, the warrior woman determined to rule empires.

 

Live transmission with English subtitles.

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8/1/2017

Karagiozis the Chef

REGGETIKO PROJECT

 

Shadow theatre for children with live music by Reggetiko Project (reggae/jazz/ rebetiko).

 

In this comedy, Karagiozis opens a restaurant, determined to conceal his lack of cooking skills!

 

In Greek.

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10/1/2017

David Bowie Is

 

A tribute on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of the great artist.

 

A film based on the fastest-selling exhibition in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, which provides expert insight into the most memorable music videos, original costumes and more personal items such as album cover artwork, which reveal the creativity and evolution of Bowie’s ideas.

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11/1/2017

Chinese Shaolin Kongfu Show

As part of the cultural exchanges between China and Cyprus and the celebrations for the Chinese New Year, the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Cyprus and the Chinese Friendship Association in Cyprus presented a performance with twenty Shaolin fighters.  Shaolin is an ancient martial art dating back over 1500 years, which was developed by the monks of the legendary Shaolin Temple.

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12/1/2017 

The Underground Millionaire 

CRISTO BOITCHEV 

SATIRIKO 

Αn unemployed musician, while fast asleep, hears a loud noise coming from underneath his bed. Someone “underground” opens a hole in the floor and appears with one million euros, which he wants to give him. 

 

Directed by: Slavko Peef 

Translation-adaptation: Yuri Stupel 

Music: Yuri Stupel 

Sets-costumes: Slavko Peef 

Lighting: Vikentios Christianidis 

 

Actors: 

Marianna Kafkaridou (Cleopatra), Spyros Georgiou (Anibal), Vassilis Michael (Vassilis), Andreas Rozou (Petros) and Maria Mesariti (Sofia) 

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14/1/2017  

Wolfgang 

CYPRUS THEATRE ORGANISATION 

Yiannis Mavritsakis’ play is inspired by the true story of a man in Austria who kidnaps a ten-year-old girl and holds her hostage for eight years.

 

When the girl escapes, the man commits suicide.  

 

Directed by: Marios Mettis. 

 

With English and Turkish surtitles. 

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18/1/2017

Bonne Année – Bon Αppétit

CYPRUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

 

H.C. Lumbye’s exuberant Happy New Year! the senior Strauss’ seasonal polka and L.H. Hoiby’s tasty opera Bon Appetit! are presented with a selection of songs from the two main exponents of Greek operetta.

 

Conductor: Andreas Tselikas.

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21/1/2017

Romeo et Juliette

CHARLES GOUNOD

THE MET LIVE IN HD

(184’)

 

New York Times said, “the temperature rises nearly to boiling every time Damrau (Juliette) and Grigolo (Romeo) are on stage together.”

 

The production has already won acclaim for its vivid 18th-century milieu and stunning costumes during runs at Salzburg and La Scala.

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22/1/2017 

Sleeping Beauty 

THEATRO LEXI 

A beautiful princess, a prince and a persistent subversive king encounter the good fairy and the “necessary” evil witch. 

 

In Greek. 

 

Author: Charles Perrault 

Song adaptation and song lyrics: Stavros Stavrou 

Directed by: Christos Nikolaou 

Sets / Costumes: Susanna Tomazou 

Music: Andreas Michalopoulos 

Choreography *: Antigone Tasouri 

Photography: Pantelis Panagiotou 

Poster Design: Maria Grigoriou 

Stage construction: Nikos Kourtellidis 

Production Organization: Maria Papapetrou 

Cast: Ermina Kyriazi, Vasiliki Dialyna, Panagiotis Kyriakou, Vassilis Charalambous, Stella Filippidou, Andreas Koutsoumbas, Savvina Georgiou, Christos Maos 

 

Cast: Ermina Kyriazi, Vasiliki Dialyna, Panagiotis Kyriakou, Vassilis Charalambous, Stella Filippidou, Andreas Koutsoumbas, Savvina Georgiou, Christos Maos 

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23/1/2017

Lampedusa

ANDERS LUSTGARTEN

ΝΕΟS KOSMOS THEATRE

 

Lampedusa, where North Africa meets Italy. Picturesque villages, dreamy beaches, and strange garbage washed away by the sea. Stefanos, although he comes from a family of fishermen, collects bodies of immigrants from the cold waters of the Mediterranean. Further north in England, Denise, a Chinese-English working student, is a mixed race, different and therefore discriminated against.

 

An exceptionally current play about the human stories behind the headlines by award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten (2015).

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26 - 31 /1/2017

Fresh Pics

RIALTO VISUAL ARTS

 

Αn exhibition presenting the work of students of the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts (Cyprus University of Technology).

 

It includes posters exploring “obsession”, while on an opening day visitors will be able to explore the photographic books of a new generation of photographers, on stage.

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29/1/2017

P.I. TCHAIKOVSKY

Swan Lake

MATTHEW BOURNE

A screening of the iconic production, best–known for replacing the traditional female corps de ballet with a menacing male ensemble.

 

With more than 30 international theatre awards including three Tonys and an Olivier, became the longest-running ballet in the West End and on Broadway.

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31/1/2017 

BERTOLT BRECHT, KURT WEILL 

Τhe Threepenny Opera  

NT LIVE ENCORE SERIES 

Mack the Knife is back in town in a darkly comic new adaptation by Simon Stephens.  As London scrubs up for the coronation, the thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull while the police cut a deal.  

 

With Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Othello, James Bond) as Macheath, alongside Rosalie Craig (As You Like It, My Family and other Animals) as Polly Peachum and Haydn Gwynne (The Windsors, Drop the Dead Donkey) as Mrs. Peachum.  

 

Contains scenes of a sexual nature, violence and filthy language.  

 

With English and Greek  

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feb

FEBRUARY 2017

1/2/2017

Exupery. Towards the Stars

MOSCOW THEATRE OF ROMAN VIKTYUK

 

A play about the difficult relationship of the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry with his wife.  Excerpts from The Little Prince are organically woven into the fabric of the play, with the author symbolising the Little Prince and his wife the Rose. In Russian.

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1 - 28 /2/2017

Fresh Pics

RIALTO VISUAL ARTS

Α poster exhibition exploring “obsession” and presenting the work of students of the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts.

Cyprus University of Technology

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6/2/2017 

EDWARD ALBEE 

Three Tall Women 

Three women (92, 52 and 26 years old) are in the same room.  Albee's scenes are charged with wit, pain, and laughter, and his observations tell us about forgiveness, reconciliation, and our own fates. 

 

In Greek 

 

Directed by Marios Mettis. 

With Annita Santoriniou, Stella Fyrogeni, Niovi Charalambous. 

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7, 8 /2/2017

YIANNIS KOTSIRAS

 

The popular Greek singer returns to Rialto for two concerts in which songs from his latest album are performed together with older songs.

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9/2/2017

Chinese New Year

CYPRUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

 

Together with the erhu (two-stringed Chinese violin) virtuoso Zhang Zhao, Cy.S.O celebrates Chinese New Year with works by two Chinese composers as well as by Gluck, Weber, Schmitt, Kreisler and Strauss, all of them directly or indirectly linked to China.

 

Conductor: Akis Baltas.

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11/2/2017

Νow Happiness

LEFTERIS MOUMTZIS

 

A selection of songs from the first solo album of the Cypriot musician/ composer of the group Trio Tekke, in which he is attempting a more acoustic, minimal approach with elements from folk, jazz, ambient and classical music.

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12/2/2017

Τhe Car Man (Bizet’s Carmen Re-imagined)

MATTHEW BOURNE

Screening of internationally acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne’s Dance Company award-winning production loosely based on Bizet’s popular opera.  In a greasy garage-diner in 1960’s America, the dreams and passions of a small-town are shattered by the arrival of a handsome stranger.

 

Filmed live at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London in August 2015.

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15/2/2017

Youth Awards 2016

 

Cooperative Central Bank and the Youth Board of Cyprus presented the “Youth Awards”, aiming to highlight, encourage and reward the work and actions of today’s young people.

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17 & 18 /2/2017 

The General Secretary 

CYPRUS THEATRE ORGANISATION 

An illiterate but wealthy provincial man supports a local member of parliament in order to acquire a job in the public service that will secure him a ticket to a life of distinction in the capital. 

 

In Greek.   

 

With English and Turkish subtitles. 

 

Adaptation / Direction: Vassilis Nikolaidis 

Sets / Costumes: Stavros AntonopoulosMusic / Stage musician: Savvas Savva 

Choreography / Movement: Efi Karakosta 

Lighting Design: George Koukoumas 

Acoustic Design: George Christofi 

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20, 21/2/2017

The Drama Short Film Festival travels to Cyprus

The awarded Greek films of the Drama Short Film Festival 2016, Greece’s leading short film festival, travel to Cyprus.

 

Organized by: Ministry of Education and Culture, Rialto Theatre and Drama International Short Film Festival.

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22/2/2017 

The Omission of the Coleman Family 

CLAUDIO TOLCACHIR 

CYPRUS THEATRE ORGANISATION 

The play by an Argentine playwright tells the story of a large family and the difficulties of coexistence.

 

Violence is the only means of communication, and the grandmother the person that links them all together.   

 

Directed by Maria Kyriakou 

In Greek with English and Turkish surtitles 

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23 /2/2017 

Ιn The World Of J. Brahms 

CYPRUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

The concert featured one of the composer’s many waltzes for piano, his Double Concerto for violin and cello and one of his early works, the Serenade no. 1 in D major.  

 

Soloists: Wolfgang Schroeder (violin), Benedict Kloeckner (cello).   

Conductor: Daniel Raiskin. 

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25/2/2017 

A. DVORAK  

Rusalka  

THE MET LIVE IN HD 

Kristine Opolais stars in the role that launched her international career, the mythical water nymph, who sings the haunting Song to the Moon. Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Dvořák’s fairytale of love and longing, rejection and redemption.  

 

With subtitles in English. 

 

Conductor: Sir Mark Elder 

Directed by: Mary Zimmerman 

Set Design: Daniel Ostling 

Costumes: Mara Blumenfeld 

Lighting: T.J. Gerckens 

Choreography: Austin McCormick 

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28/2/2017 

HAROLD PINTER 

Νο Man’s Land 

ΝΤ LIVE 

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the roles of two aging writers drinking into the night.  As the pair become increasingly drunk, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.   

 

Also starring Owen Teale and Damien Molony, the live broadcast will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the cast and director Sean Mathias. 

 

The screening followed by an exclusive Q&A with the cast and director Sean Mathias. 

 

In English. 

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mar

MARCH 2017

3-5/3/2017

17th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Platform

 

 

10 dance projects by established and upcoming choreographers were presented within the framework of the 17th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Platform, organized by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Rialto Theatre.

 

That year offered, according to the call of submissions, the opportunity to oldest productions presented at Terpsichore and Culture Programs, even in previous editions of the Platform to participate. In this framework, they had presented their works Alexandros Michael, Machi Dimitriadou – Asomates Dynameis, Elena Antoniou and Milena Ugren Koulas. Along with these 4 performances, another 6 new proposals by established and younger choreographers, selected by the Selection Committee, complete the 10 performances had presented at that year's celebration of Dance.

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7/3/2017 

Filio Haidemenou 

A play based on the autobiographical book Three centuries one life by Filio Haidemenou, born in 1899 in Asia Minor, who went to Greece in 1922 as a refugee and died in 2007.

 

In Greek.

 

Cast: Despina Bembedeli, Zacharias Karounis, Mary Saousopoulou, Dimitris Karaviotis, George Floratos 

Adaptation: Andri Theodotou 

Directed by: Vassilis Eftaxopoulos 

Sets - Costumes: Angelos Aggeli 

Music - Artistic curation: Zacharias Karounis 

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8/3/2017 

Tribute to Mikis Theodorakis  

CYPRUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

Two of the composer’s own works, Oedipus Rex and Concerto for piano no. 1, are presented together with a suite written by conductor A. Baltas based on melodies penned by Theodorakis.   

 

Soloist: Elena Mouzalas: piano   

Conductor: Νikos Tsouchlos 

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9/3/2017 

How the other half loves 

ALAN AYCKBOURN  

Α situation comedy about three couples coming from different age and social groups, with the men all working for the same firm, becoming entangled in a series of misunderstandings. 

 

In Greek. 

 

Translation / Direction: Iosif Vardakis 

Sets / costumes: Lakis Genethlis 

Lighting: Alexander Jotovich 

Actors: Sofia Kalli, Christos Giagkou, Penny Finiri, Panagiotis Larkou, Christodoulos Martas, Menia Mathioudaki 

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11/3/2017 

G. VERDI 

La Traviata  

ΤΗΕ ΜΕΤ LIVE IN HD 

 

Based on Dumas’s La Dame aux Camélias, it is a love story shrouded in sacrifice and misunderstanding. Sonya Yoncheva sings the tragic courtesan Violetta, opposite Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo.

  

Live transmission with English subtitles. 

 

Directed by: Willy Decke 

Conductor: Nicola Luisotti 

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18/3/2017

 

Dancing for Life

 

Songs and dances from Cyprus, Macedonia, Lesvos, Thessalia and Crete to support the «Prosvasi» Day Center for Adult People with Intellectual Disabilities.

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19/3/2017 

P.I. TCHAIKOVSKY 

The Sleeping Beauty 

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CINEMA 

Screening of the Royal Ballet’s landmark production with princesses, fairy godmothers and magical spells.  A much-loved classic combining the best of classical ballet, with all its charms and virtuosity, splendid music and talented dancers. 

 

Choreograph: Marius Petipa 

Additional choreography: Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon 

Production: Monica Mason and Christopher Newton after Ninette de Valois and Nicholas Sergeyev 

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20/3/2017 
Francophonie 2017  

ANNA’S TIME (Switzerland, 2016, 90’) 

 

A young watchmaker falls head over heels with a mysterious woman. They get married and go through all life experiences together until Anna… 

 

Director: Greg Zglinski.   

 

In French with English subtitles.  

 

GHADI (Lebanon 2013, 100΄) 

A music instructor, marries his childhood sweetheart. To the dismay of his family and friends, he has two baby girls.  Their third child is a boy, who has Down syndrome.   

 

Directed by: Amin Dora 

 

In Arabic with English subtitles  

 

In collaboration with Institut Français de Chypre and the Embassies of Switzerland and Lebanon 

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21/3/2017 

Amour – Amour 

Andreas Empeirikos 

The Rialto Theater, on the occasion of World Poetry Day, hosted Leonidas Empirikos, historian and holder of the archive of his father Andreas Empirikos (1901-1975). Art landscape, music and readings compose a new dream-poem that wants to communicate directly with the audience.

 

Original music on stage: Dimitris Spyrou 

Stage set: Elena Kotasvili 

Direction / dramaturgy / narration: Elena Agathokleous 

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22/3/2017   

WAJDI MOUAWAD 

Scorched 

CYPRUS THEATRE ORGANISATION 

A mysterious will sends a brother and a sister to the Middle East in search of their roots after their mother’s passing.  

 

Directed by: Paris Erotokritou 

With English and Turkish surtitles. 

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24/3/2017

Dimitra Galani

Efstathios Drakos

Celebrated Greek singer and songwriter Dimitra Galani returned to Rialto, joined by her younger colleague Efstathios Drakos.

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25/3/2017

W.A. MOZART

Idomeneo

THE MET LIVE IN HD

(238’)

 

James Levine conducts Mozart’s opera set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, starring Matthew Polenzani in the title role. The classic direction by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, repeated for the first time in a decade, presents Matthew Polenzani in the eponymous role. The distribution also includes Elza van den Heever as Electra, Nadine Sierra as Iliad, Alice Coote as Idamanthi and Alan Opie as Arvaki.

 

With subtitles in English.

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7/3/2017 

FRANCOPHONIE 2017* 

HIPPOCRATES (France, 2013, 102’)  

A darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern who begins his internship at the hospital ward run by his father. Director: Thomas Lilti. In French.  

 

ME, MYSELF AND MUM (France, 2012, 85΄) 

An inventive comedy about a young man’s upbringing, his relations with his mother, and his eventual embracing of his inner heterosexual. Director: Guillaume Gallienne. In French with English subtitles. 

 

In collaboration with Institut Français de Chypre and the Embassies of Switzerland and Lebanon.  

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28, 29* /3/2017  

Egoland 

THEATER COLLECTIVE SRSLY YOURS 

Τhe creators of Fear Industry (Rialto Premiere 2015, listed “Best Theater Performances on Berlin Stages” Zitty Magazine/Berlinale Issue) return to Cyprus with their new production. Taking place in the age of the “I” based on fiction, true stories and “alternative facts”, the performance entangles its players in a breathtaking mix of celebrities, dogmas, nationalistic ideals and heroic figures.  

 

Direction: Achim Wieland (Co-dramaturgy: Marios Ioannou),  

Protagonist: Martin Nick Alexandersson.

 

In English.  

 

*Morning performance 

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29 /3/2017 

Amadeus 

PETER SHAFFER 

NT LIVE  

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arrives in Vienna.  Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Α screening of the National Theatre’s production with live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia.  

In English. 

 

Antonio Salieri: Lucian Msamati  

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adam Gillen Constanze, Weber (later Mozart) Karla Crome Venticelli: Sarah Amankwah, Hammed Animashaun 

Director: Michael Longhurst 

Designer: Chloe Lamford  

Music Director & Additional Music: Simon Slater  

Choreographer: Imogen Knight  

Lighting Designer: Jon Clark  

Sound Designer: Paul Arditt 

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30/3/2017 

The Heavenly Life 

CYPRUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA  

The ethereal Fairies by Cypriot composer Andreas Keliris together with Shostakovich’s Concerto in C minor for piano, trumpet, and string orchestra and Mahler’s Symphony no. 4.   

 

Soloists: Gareth Griffiths (trumpet), Gergana Georgieva (piano), Elli Koutsouli (soprano) Conductor: Alkis Baltas 

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APRIL 2017

2/4/2017

Orfeas Peridis, Lizeta Kalimeri

 

An important singer/ songwriter meets one of the most characteristic voices of the Thessaloniki school.

 

Old acquaintances on and off stage, join forces at Rialto Theatre to present their personal repertoire and popular songs that connect them.

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5/4/2017

Mata Hari

ELENA GREMINA

LUNA THEATRE, MOSCOW

 

A story of love, betrayal and remorse, rivalry and revenge.  In the centre of it the most famous spy of the First World War, Mata Hari, together with her friend and rival Hannah Wittig.  

 

In Russian.

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6/4/2017

Piano Recital

YIANNIS GEORGIOU

 

The acclaimed Cypriot pianist presented a dream sequence consisting of favorite music miniatures by Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Debussy Chopin and Economou, which are full of contrasts.

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8, 9/4/2017

12th Cyprus Ballet Competition

 

Rialto Theatre hosted the Cyprus Dance Association and its annual competition aiming to discover talented ballet dancers and promote them across Cyprus and abroad.

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10/4/2017 

Young Soloists in Concert 

CYPRUS YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

Τalented young pianists Nicolas Georgiades and David Anastasiou join the Orchestra as soloists to perform Mozart’s Piano concerto no. 23 and Liszt’s Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Melodies, respectively.

 

With Easter just around the corner, the evening ends with Mozart’s Requiem, together with the excellent Limassol Lyceum Choir.

 

Choir Conductor: Solon Kladas 

Conductor: Yiorgos Kountouris 

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19/4/2017

Woolf Works

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CINEMA

The first revival of Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych, inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves, with elements of her letters, essays and diaries.

 

Acclaimed British composer Max Richter creates a specially commissioned score incorporating electronic and live music.

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20/4/2017 

To Ξύλο Βγήκε Από Τον Παράδεισο 

ΑΛΕΚΟΣ ΣΑΚΕΛΛΑΡΙΟΣ 

ΣΑΤΙΡΙΚO ΘEΑΤΡΟ 

Maiden's Cheek 

 

Α young teacher arrives to teach at a girls' high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich families, are very spoiled making his and the other teachers’ work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him, while the most undisciplined, falls in love with him.  In Greek. 

 

Directed by: Marianna Kafkaridou 

Sets-costumes: Lakis Genethlis 

Music: Manos Hadjidakis, Savvas Savva 

Choreography: Eva Papageorgopoulou 

Lyrics: Alekos Sakellarios, Marianna Kafkaridou 

Assistant director: Efi Papageorgiou 

Painting: Martin Meason 

Lighting design: Vikentios Christianidis 

Light Designer: Artemis Houtris 

 

Starring: 

Andri Angelidou, George Anagiotos, Spyros Georgiou, Marios Dimitriou, Loukia Mousouliotou, Vassilis Michail, Andreas Rozou, Zina Kafkaridou, Irini Vyra, Mikaella Kasinou, Kristi Charalambous, Panagiota Anaxagoras, Panagiota Anaxagoras

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22/4/2017

Sergey Manukyan

JAZZ SERIES

Sergey Manukyan is a vocalist, an instrumentalist, a composer, an arranger, a keyboardist and a drummer, well-known to a wide audience as a musician who artfully combines jazz elements and popular music.  

 

In Cyprus, he performed with the acclaimed Cyprus musicians Andreas Stefanou (drums) and Leonid Nesterov (piano)

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22/4/2017 

Eugene Onegin 

THE MET LIVE IN HD  

Anna Netrebko stars as Tatiana, the young woman whose impulsive declaration of love is coolly rejected by Mariusz Kwiecien’s Onegin—with unexpected consequences years later. Pushkin’s timeless tragic romance is broadcast live from the Met stage in Deborah Warner’s moving production.   

 

With subtitles in English. 

 

Conductor: Robin Tcciati 

Production: Deborah Wagner 

Set Designer: Tom Pye 

Costume Designer: Chloe Obolensky 

Lighting Designer: Jean Kalman 

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5/4/2017

Hedda Gabler

NT LIVE

Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free... Trapped but determined, she tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.  

 

Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic Theatre) returns to National Theatre Live screens.  Ruth Wilson (Jane Eyre) plays the title role in a new version by Patrick Marber (Closer).

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27/4- 6/5/2017

Cyprus Film Days 2017

 

The greatest film festival of the year, in its 15th edition, presented a variety of films, screened at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol and Zena Palace Cinema in Nicosia. An international competition section (Glocal Images), internationally acclaimed film premieres (Viewfinder), tributes, parallel programmes and music events make up this year’s official International Film Festival of Cyprus dedicated to feature fiction films. For the second time the Festival also presented a children’s film festival “Cyprus Film Days for Children and Youth”.

 

Organised by: Cultural Services – Ministry of Education and Culture & Rialto Theatre.

 

All films were screened in their original language with subtitles in English.

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MAY 2017

27/4- 6/5/2017

Cyprus Film Days 2017

 

An international competition section (Glocal Images), internationally acclaimed film premieres (Viewfinder), tributes, parallel events and a programme for Children and Youth make up the official International Film Festival of Cyprus dedicated to featuring fiction films.

 

Organised by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Rialto Theatre. All films will be screened in their original language with subtitles in English.  The festival programme can be found on www.cyprusfilmdays.com

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10/5/2017

Women

 

A performance intertwining music with theatre, masterfully combining storytelling with songs.

 

Three women confess the stories, melodies and passions of a lifetime.

 

In Greek.

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11/5/2017

Percussion Sounds

CYPRUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

 

The CSO presents Polyosti dances by contemporary Cypriot composer Evagoras Karageorgis, followed by the Violin concerto in A minor by J. S. Bach, contemporary French composer E. Sammut’s Sugaria Concerto and W.A. Mozart Linz Symphony.

 

Conductor: Michalis Economou

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12/5/2017

Monika in concert

 

Hailed as one of Greece’s most promising young artists, singer and songwriter Monika performs for the first time in Limassol and on Rialto’s stage, presented her first three English-speaking albums Avatar, Exit and Secret In The Dark

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13/5/2017

Der Rosenkavalier

R. STRAUSS

THE MET LIVE IN HD

 

The dream cast of Renée Fleming as the Marschallin and Elīna Garanča as Octavian star in Strauss’ grandest opera.

 

In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the opera’s subtext of class and conflict against a rich backdrop of gilt and red damask.

 

With subtitles in English.

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14/5/2017

The God of Carnage

YASMINA REZA

 

When two eleven-year-old boys get involved in a fight at the park, the victim’s parents invite the perpetrator’s parents at home.

 

A multi-awarded chamber farce with four initially civilized adults gradually becoming more brutal than their own children.

 

In Greek.

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20/5/2017

Crawfish cry

JOHN MURRELL

VAKHTANGOV THEATRE

 

The great actress Sarah Bernhardt is trying to reconstruct events of the past. In her memories, she is on the stage again, in her childhood, in the conflict with her mother, in conversations with her lover.

 

In Russian.

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23/5/2017 

St Joan 

G. BERNARD SHAW 

NT LIVE 

Joan of Arc: daughter, farm girl, visionary, patriot, king-whisperer, soldier, leader, victor, icon, radical, witch, heretic, saint, martyr, woman. Bernard Shaw's classic play directed by Josie Rourke (Coriolanus, Les Liaisons Dangereuses) for the Donmar Warehouse, with Gemma Arterton in the title role.

 

Screening in English. 

 

Directors: Josie Rourke, Tony Grech-Smith (co-director) 

Writer: George Bernard Shaw 

Stars: Fisayo Akinade, Gemma Arterton, Matt Bardock  

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27/5/2017

Chinese Zodiac 

 

A man searches the world for a set of mystic artifacts: 12 bronze heads of the animals from the Chinese zodiac. Hong Kong-Chinese action film co-produced, written, directed by, and starring Jackie Chan. The film won Best Action Choreography at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards.  

 

In Mandarin with subtitles in English.

 

Organized by: Embassy of the People's Republic of China.

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28/5/2017

Jewels

G. BALANCHINE

ROYAL BALLET ROYAL

OPERA HOUSE CINEMA

A masterclass in the many luminous facets of classical ballet and indeed of The Royal Ballet itself: the virtuoso choreography of Balanchine, the intensity of the soloists and the precision of the entire Company.

 

The French Romantic music of Fauré provides the impetus for Emeralds, while the fire of Rubies comes from Stravinsky and the jazz-age energy of New York. Grandeur and elegance complete the ballet with the music of Tchaikovsky in Diamonds.

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june

JUNE 2017

1/6/2017 

150th anniversary of the Moscow Conservatory:

From Classical to Modern Music.

 

With Irina Kirillova (winner of international piano competitions, Professor of the Moscow Conservatory P.I.Tchaikovsky), Mikhail Golovushkin (soloist of the Helicon Opera) and Daria Davidova (lyrical soprano).

 

Also featuring: T. Pugacheva (violin), Ch. Neofitou (violin), M. Neofitou (piano), J. Onisiforou (piano), Y.Georgiou (piano) 

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Twelfth Night

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

ΝΤ LIVE

@Rialto Summer Cinema

 

Tamsin Greig is upright housekeeper Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy hit. Malvolia is in love with her employer Olivia, who is, in turn, in love with Cesario, who is really Viola dressed as a young man to survive on her own after her ship is wrecked on the rocks.

 

A whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love where nobody is quite what they seem and anything proves possible.

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11/6/6/2017 
20th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival 

ANNNA  

ALEXANDRA WAIERSTALL  

10’ 

ELEANA ALEXANDROU  

@ Pallas Theatre, Nicosia 

 

In ANNNA Alexandra Waierstall creates a physical landscape where movement is weaved like a long breath through ever-changing relations of sound and silence and fast shapeshifting movements and stillness.  In piece 10’ Eleana Alexandrou raises questions about the role of the artist, art in general, and especially the role of this “incomprehensible” dance. 

 

Organizers: Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theater 

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13/6/2017

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

TOM STOPPARD

NT LIVE: THE OLD VIC

@Rialto Summer Cinema

 

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) stars in Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy.  

 

Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two ill-fated minor characters take centre stage.  As they stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.

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17/6/2017

20th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival

The Roots

CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE

NATIONAL DE LA ROCHELLE

FRANCE

 

An ode to a brilliant 30-year-old story: the hip-hop. The Roots is first and foremost a human adventure, a journey.

 

Eleven outstanding dancers are the performers of this adventure. Music plays a major and meaningful role: with Brahms, Glazunov, and mainly electronic music, it opens its doors to dancing humanity. The piece draws upon everyone’s story: the story of every dancer, with both their wealth and distinctiveness.

Organizers: Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre

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18/6/2017

20th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival

Horses in the Sky

KIBBUTZ CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY

ISRAEL

 

One of the leading dance companies in the world (Artistic Director: Rami Be’er), comes to the Rialto stage with its technically strong and physically eclectic cast of sixteen dancers and its dynamic sensibility, to present a piece that premiered at the Sydney Opera House in the Fall of 2016 before embarking on an international tour.

 

Organizers: Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre

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20/6/2017

Oleg Pogudin

 

The bright tenor, the winner of numerous state awards and a member of the Council for Culture under the President of Russia, returns to Rialto accompanied by a folk instruments ensemble.

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21/6/2017

12th Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival

Quartet Aléas

 

Alliance Française and Rialto Theatre celebrated La Fête de la Musique with four musicians from Toulouse: Cyril Laurent (saxophone), Stéphane Guionie (guitar, ney), Mathieu Jardat (bass, double bass) and Xavier Guionie (drums, percussions).

 

Their music identity, widely influenced by their common passion for Oriental music and African tunes, immerses the audience in a charming and colourful universe.

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24/6/2017

20th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival

Candy's Camouflage

CHRIS HARING

AUSTRIA

 

An ode to weird and messiness, to the controlled chaos of grimaces and erupting dance.  A dreamlike piece, surreal and ambiguous.

 

Projections of the feminine – or what one may take for it – are called up; deceptive stereotypes and fragile clichés are put to the endurance tests they deserve.

 

Organizers: Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre

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25/7/2017

20th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival

withOut - a ConcerDance for three bodies

EGLI_ITEMS

SWITZERLAND

 

As if being a string trio, the performers step on stage with their body-instruments, sit down, arrange scores, wait for silence.

 

By playing without musicians, a visible connection from the architecture of music to the dancing body is created, aiming to achieve movement being watched as music is being listened to at a concert! Concept, choreography: Philipp Egli.

 

Organizers: Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre

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26/6/2017

20th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival

Hybrid*k

MOTOKO HIRAYAMA, AINU & OREKA TX

SPAIN

@ Attikon Open Air Theatre, Pafos

 

A collaboration of Basque and Japanese artists showing the richness of bringing together two ancient cultures, in a contemporary and open way.

 

This project is a part of the Donostia San Sebastian European Capital of Culture 2016 program, which is being reworked by the choreographer Motoko Hirayama, especially for Pafos2017.

 

The performances in Pafos are part of the program for the Pafos Cultural Capital of Europe 2017.

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27/6/2017 

20th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival 

Roots 

SPAIN 

KUKAI, OREKA TX  

@ Attikon Open Air Theatre, Pafos  

Two internationally awarded ensembles, Kukai Dance Company and Oreka TX music ensemble, having their roots in the Basque culture, combine music and dance, convinced that there is music in dance just as there is dance in music production. Choreography: John Maya. 

 

The performances in Pafos are part of the programme for the Pafos Cultural Capital of Europe 2017. 

 

Organizers: Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre 

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july

JULY 2017

3/7/2017

INDIAN SUMMER @ RIALTO SUMMER CINEMA

Tanu Weds Manu (2011)

Directed by Anand L. Rai

 

A Bollywood romantic comedy in which a London-based doctor Manu (Dr. Manoj Sharma) returns home to Delhi and, in the company of his parents, goes to meet his prospective bride, Tanu.  Though he does approve of her, Tanu tells him that she already has a boyfriend and plans to marry him even against her parents' wishes. Manu informs his parents, and they set about to see other girls for their son - albeit in vain - as he has his heart set on Tanu.

 

SEK parking space - behind Rialto

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10/7/2017 
INDIAN SUMMER @ RIALTO SUMMER CINEMA  

Hawaa Hawaai (2014)  

Directed by Amole Gupte  

A Bollywood movie that centers around a young boy, Arjun, and his journey towards being a champion skater. After his father's death, Arjun moves to Mumbai and starts to work in a tea stall. As much as he would like to skate, he finds the skates too expensive so his friends make a pair of skates for him out of garbage and call it hawaa hawaai. Aniket, a skating coach, gets impressed by Arjun and decides to guide him through skating and through life.  With English subtitles. 

 

SEK parking space - behind Rialto 

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17/7/2017 

12th Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival 2017 

BandAdriatica 

A MEDITERRANEAN ODΥSSEY  

 

Carried by the whirling winds blowing along the shores of the Adriatic sea, BandAdriatica rows on the rough sea of traditional Salento music using Balkan and North African elements. It starts from the traditional brass bands usually playing at celebrations, funerals, parties, processions in Puglia, and traveling at night from town to town. The journey expands and looks at the Mediterranean Sea like at a complex “Babilonia” (the title of the band’s latest release), where all the languages begin to harmonize around the popular melodies in the mestizo fervor of the ports. Babilonia is the title of Band Adriatica’s latest release, a meeting of cultures, a challenge of communication.  

 

Claudio Prima: Organetto, vocals
 

Emanuele Coluccia: Alto sax  

Andrea Perrone: Trumpet
 

Vincenzo Grasso:Clarinet, tenor sax  

Gaetano Carrozzo: Trombone
 

Morris Pellizzari: Guitars, saz, kamalè ngonì  

Giuseppe Spedicato: Bass 

Ovidio Venturoso: Drums  

 

Organisers: Rialto Theatre, Cooperative Central Bank, Platres Community Council, Eventpro 

Supported by: Limassol Municipality, Cultural Services, Embassy of Cuba in Cyprus 

Member of EFWMF – EFFE Label 

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19/7/2017

12th Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival 2017

Abhisek Lahiri

 

One of the youngest award-winning Indian sarod artists (a stringed instrument of India, used mainly in Hindustani classical music, known for a deep, introspective sound.), who was trained under his eminent father and guru Pandit Alok Lahiri.  He started performing in public at an early age of 11 years and since 1977, he has been touring Europe, U.S.A., Canada, Sri Lanka, Japan, Bangladesh apart from India.  Abhisek's music albums Sparkling Sarod and Mood Of Puriya Kalyan got nominated at GIMA (Global Indian Music Awards) in 2010 and in 2014 respectively.

 

Organisers: Rialto Theatre, Cooperative Central Bank, Platres Community Council, Eventpro

Supported by: Limassol Municipality, Cultural Services, Embassy of Cuba in Cyprus

Member of EFWMF – EFFE Label

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24/7/2017 

12th Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival 2017 

Trio Tekke 

ZIVO 

Τhe acclaimed Neo-Rebetiko group made a comeback with a strong new release which marks a departure from the purely acoustic sound of their previous two records and is their first to consist of exclusively original compositions. The band’s sound is enhanced by electric guitar, electric bass, effected tzouras, drums, percussion and some electronics, creating a genre-hopping cocktail of Greek Rebetiko-style tunes infused with Afrobeat, Cumbia, Acid Rock, Psychedelia and Jazz. The 13 tracks of the album produce a fresh sonic, stylistic and aesthetic outcome, which strengthens the band’s performance dynamic and makes it approachable for even more diverse audiences.  

 

Antonis Antoniou: tzouras, vocals 

Lefteris Moumtzis: electric guitar, vocals 

Colin Somervell: double bass, Electric bass, vocals 

Dave De Rose: Drums  

 

Organisers: Rialto Theatre, Cooperative Central Bank, Platres Community Council, Eventpro 

Supported by: Limassol Municipality, Cultural Services, Embassy of Cuba in Cyprus 

Member of EFWMF – EFFE Label 

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26/7/2017 

12th Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival 2017 

Vasiliki Anastasiou 

Τhe Amalgamation project  

A journey balancing between a fresh Mediterranean sound, the echoes of the mountains of the Balkans and the rich timbre of polyphony. The band will present adapted traditional songs, an amalgamation between the West and the East, as well as their own compositions, with some small stories/poems here and there. At this year's festival, they will also present their first full album titled Vasiliki Anastasiou – the Amalgamation project. 

 

Vasiliki Anastasiou: voice, research, composition 

Ermis Michail: guitar, arrangements 

Alkis Agathokleous: ney 

Rodos Panagiotou: / percussion 

Pavlos Carvalho: cello 

Argyro Christodoulou: vocals  

Eugenia-Evaggelia Chatzaki: vocals 

 

Organisers: Rialto Theatre, Cooperative Central Bank, Platres Community Council, Eventpro 

Supported by: Limassol Municipality, Cultural Services, Embassy of Cuba in Cyprus