Prinsessan av Cypern (The Princess of Cyprus) is a four-act fairy opera by Fredrik Pacius, with a Swedish libretto by Zacharias Topelius.
In the summer of 2001, a concert version was played at the 21st Finnish-Swedish Song Festival in Espoo, conducted by Ulf Söderblom, who also led a BIS recording for CD the following year.
Topelius’ Swedish language play the Princess of Cyprus is based on an episode in the Kalevala with Lemminkäinen and Kyllikki.
Lemminkäinen journeys to Cyprus and carries off Princess Chryseis back to Finland.
Later a blind shepherd kills Lemminkäinen, who descends to Tuonela, but his mother brings her son back to life through prayer.