October 2025
2 Thu 20:00 (60’)
PΙΑΝΟ QUARTET Brahms & Mahler I CySO -Chamber Music 1
The distinguished CySO violinist Ayşe Karaoğlan and cellist Pinar Bayraktar, long-standing chamber music partners, are now turning their artistic curiosity towards the piano quartet repertoire. To embark on this new journey, they join forces with two exceptional musicians: CySO’s sub-principal violist Vladimir Tkachenko and the brilliant Cypriot pianist Manolis Neophytou.
Sharing a deep love for Brahms, their programme starts with his Piano quartet no. 3 in C minor composed in 1875 — a piece with a fascinating connection to the composer’s life. Brahms famously described it with dark emotional imagery, writing to his publisher: “Imagine a man who is about to shoot himself because nothing else remains to him.” This vivid sentiment reflects the quartet’s turbulent emotional landscape - rooted in Brahms’ deep inner conflict between pain for the mental illness of his friend Robert Schumann and his own love for his wife, Clara Schumann.
Just one year later, in 1876, the 15 year-old Gustav Mahler, then student at Vienna Conservatory, composed his Piano quartet in A minor. There is a foreboding darkness and intensity of emotion in this very early work, whereby one can hear echoes of the music of Schumann and Brahms.
Johannes Brahms: Piano quartet no. 3 in C minor, op. 60
Gustav Mahler: Piano quartet in A minor
Ayşe Karaoğlan violin
Vladimir Tkachenko viola
Pinar Bayraktar cello
Manolis Neophytou piano
Supporters: Rialto Theatre
4 Sat 20:30 (50’) (16+)
NECROPOLIS - Arkadi Zaides / On Stage
Open House Festival Ι Dance House Lemesos
Since 1993, UNITED for Intercultural Action, a network of hundreds of anti-racist organizations from all over Europe, has been compiling a list of refugees and migrants who lost their lives on their way to the continent. As of June 2025, when the latest updated version was released, the list included information on 66,519 reported deaths. The total toll is certainly much higher, as many people are neither found nor registered. When scrolling through the many pages of the list one cannot ignore the fact that only a very small number of the deceased are mentioned by name, leaving the vast majority without identifying details.
NECROPOLIS is an ongoing choreographic and documentary work about unknown bodies - a poignant reflection on the ongoing human tragedy at Europe's borders. By integrating data analysis, choreographic gestures, and documentary practices, Arkadi Zaides and his team delve into the practice of forensics to conceive a new virtual depository mapping the remains of the many whose deaths remain to this day mostly unacknowledged. This archive, revealing a cartography made invisible, stretches across space and time, weaving together the mythologies, histories, geographies and anatomies of those who have found their way to NECROPOLIS. Although there are no bodies to dance with in the city of the dead, it is precisely this absence - the collective body of NECROPOLIS - that Zaides brings to life.
Concept & direction: Arkadi Zaides
Dramaturgy, text and voice: Igor Dobricic
Research assistant: Emma Gioia
Performers: Arkadi Zaides, Emma Gioia
Sculpture: Moran Sanderovich
3D modeling: Mark Florquin
Avatar animation: Jean Hubert | Animation assistant: Thibaut Rostagnat
Light: Jan Mergaert
Sound design: Asli Kobaner
In English with Greek surtitles
5 Sun 20:30 (50’)
ILAND - Ody Icon & Alejjos
Rialto Associate Artist Residence Scheme 2025
Every person is an island. A fracture in time, a pause that makes way for a new beginning - a singular topography in the archipelago of human experience.
ILAND, a music performance by Cypriot artist ody icon, in collaboration with music producer Alejjo and video artist Diyala Muir, is being presented again at the Rialto Theatre.
Inspired by the unique geography and layered history of Cyprus, and the thought of philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the performance explores the island not as isolation, but as a possibility for connection.
We are islands floating in the same archipelago—bearing our own fractures, silences, hopes, gestures, and language. And within that distance, the need to build bridges arises—not from lack, but from love.
ILAND is a journey toward community. An act of resistance against estrangement. A hymn to the possibility of coexistence.
The performance is dedicated to the Palestinian people and to all those who struggle for freedom, autonomy, and dignity.
The performance will be presented with simultaneous interpretation in Greek Sign Language for deaf and hard of hearing people
Concept – Idea – Artistic Direction: ody icon (@odyicon)
Music production: Alejjos (@alejjos_)
Animation – Video Art: Diyala Muir (@diyala.muir)
Text - Dramaturgy: ody icon
Light design: Vasilis Petinaris (v_petinaris)
Costume design: Froso Christou (@itsfrosochristou)
On stage: ody icon, Alejjos
(K) 11 - 17 Sat – Fri 20:00
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (18+)
The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (ISFFC) returns to the Rialto Theatre’s screen for its 15th edition, featuring dozens of short films directed by Cypriot and international filmmakers. Held under the artistic direction of Keti Papadima and Diomedes Koufteros, this year’s programme offers audiences a rich and multifaceted competition lineup, presenting fiction, animation, experimental and documentary films — all reflecting the creativity and vitality of both the local and global film scene.
Free parallel events and special screenings once again enrich the Festival’s programme, while the international intensive training workshop What’s the Story? Cyprus (13–17 October), organised in collaboration with Talents Generator Factory, provides guidance to selected directors and screenwriters from Cyprus and the wider Eastern Mediterranean region.
The Festival is an annual institutional event of the Deputy Ministry of Culture (Department of Contemporary Culture), co-organised with the Rialto Theatre.
With Greek and English subtitles
Tickets: €5 / Festival pass: €25
22 Wed 20:30 (130’)
Dr. Strangelove – National Theatre Live
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.
This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack, is led by a world-renowned creative team including Emmy Award-winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley. Βroadcast live from National Theatre in London. With Greek and English subtitles.
A production from Patrick Myles and David Luff
Co-adapted by Armando Iannucci.
Co-adapted and directed by Sean Foley.
Director: Sean Foley
Βroadcast live from National Theatre in London.
With Greek and English subtitles.
23 Thu 20:30 (75’)
Aliki Kayaloglou inside Mikis Theodorakis galaxy (1925-2025)
Mesmerizing greek singer Aliki Kayaloglou, one of Mikis Theodorakis’ closest collaborators in Greece and abroad, brings his spirit and artistic genious to life, along with 3 of the composer’s most beloved musicians.
A magical musical reunion will take place on Rialto Theatre’s stage, in honor of one of the greatest composers of the 20th century worldwide. His 4 collaborators through decades of concerts, recordings, rehearsals and tours, will reveal and share mostly unknown and diverse musical aspects of his work.
Travelling inside Mikis Theodorakis’ galaxy of 77 cycles of songs (among many more monumental works such as Operas, Symphonies, Concertos etc), light will be shed on works which he chose to record with the expressive voice of Aliki Kayaloglou, as well as works which he always wished to see performed live.
Singer: Aliki Kayaloglou
Classical guitar: Dimitris Papangelidis
Piano: Nikos Platirachos
Violoncello: Mariliza Papadouri Papangelidi
Guest: Culture Movement «EpilogiI» Children’s Choir
Choir conductor: Korina Vasileiou
Artistic Direction: Dimitris Papangelidis
Organization / Production: Mariliza Papadouri Papangelidi
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24 Fri 20:30 (75’) On Stage
Which Europe – Michalis Papadopoulos Ι Antilogos Theatre
Michalis Papadopoulos play "Which Europe" (Poia Evropi) is a play that unfolds in the present day. The author sets the action inside a railway carriage stuck between the Omonia and Victoria stations in Athens.
Two sisters, Rosa and Elenia, two women around 50 years old, are on their way to their doctor in Ano Patissia. In the carriage we also have Andreas, a man around the same age as the women and Amzat, a Palestinian heading to Victoria Square to join a protest. Due to a breakdown, the train remains immobilized for a long period of time between the two stations. Confinement, uncertainty and the possibility that the train has stopped due to a terrorist attack will push the passengers into extreme situations. The time they will spend in the carriage will give them the chance to unfold their personal stories and their passions. By the time the train starts moving again, everything will have taken its course, their relationships will have been clarified and each of them will have gained a clearer picture of themselves.
"Which Europe" deals with the big dead ends of the modern European citizen: Racism and fascism that are gaining ground again. Unemployment which undermines dignity. The inner conflict of the person that cannot, or refuses, to reconcile their beliefs with their moral stance. The disappointment, the silence, the resignation. At a time where incidents of violence against the diverse are increasing, the play reminds us of our own personal responsibility for what happens around us. Our responsibility toward the future and our attitude toward life itself in general. The characters in the play are not strangers, they are familiar faces, friends, neighbors, ordinary people. They say things we have all "heard" before, but which we have rarely truly listened to. The play's characters believed what they said and they acted on it.
Author: Michalis Papadopoulos
Director: Neoklis Neokleous
Cast: Haris Kkolos, Melani Stelios, Fotis Fotiou, Christina Christofia
31 Fri 16:00 (15 hours)
1953 - Art Explora Festival
1953 is a dramaturgical exercise in three acts, grounded in the facticity of the present. It seeks to reimagine the Rialto Theatre as a unified, fluid space, dissolving the boundaries between stage and auditorium, insideand outside, day and night. From sunset to sunrise, the performance unfolds as a shifting landscape where the dramatized and the real are interwoven, transforming Rialto into a site of continuous mutation, through a counterpoint of actions, voices, and images.
Spanning 15 hours, from dusk to dawn, the work traces a path from the detail to the collective, confronting the very limits of theatrical experience in time. 1953, the year of birth of scenographer Valentino Joseph and of Julie the elephant, sets the coordinates for a composition that mobilizes numerous contributors through a wide spectrum of collaborations and technologicalmeans.
Concept / Direction: Christodoulos Panayiotou
With (among others): Valentino Joseph, Elena Topalidou, Stela Phyrogeni, Androula Kafa, Christina Vantzou, Limassol Philharmonic Orchestra, Giorgos Krasidis, Amalgamation Choir, Vasiliki Anastasiou, Alexandros Pissourios, Angelos Charalambous, Alexis Vassiliou, Nicolas Stylianou, Marios Konstantinou, Christina Olympiou, Mihalis Shammas, Loizos Olympios, Kristia Michael, Adonis Archontides, Sofronis Sofroniou, Andreas Antoniou.
Act One: 16:30–20:30 (31/10/2025)
Act Two: 20:30–22:30 (31/10/2025)
Act Three: 22:30–07:30 (31/10–1/11/2025)
Audience members may attend either part of the performance or the whole. Admission to all acts is free. Advance booking is required only for the central act (20:30–22:30). While access to the first and last chapters is open.
