Aida to be staged in Paphos

THE Russian Bolshoi Opera is to stage Verdi’s Aida this coming September, it was announced yesterday.

The opera will be performed under the auspices of the Paphos Aphrodite Festival. The festival’s organisers said the decision to stage Aida was taken at a meeting with Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Nicos Rolandis.

The opera will to be the jewel in the crown of this year’s festival which the organisers hope to make into “an ambassador of Cypriot culture… the official annual cultural event.”

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