On October 15 I made my way to Beyoğlu for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by the artist Rahşan Düren entitled Verwegenheit, a word which I believe means ‘audacity’ or ‘boldness’ in German.

The curtain rose to reveal an enormous sculpture of a horse’s head, equalling the height of the theatre and encased in a cube of LED-lit scaffolding. This was the opening night of Handel’s Tamerlano, ...

On October 15 I made my way to Beyoğlu in the evening rush hour, braving the traffic on Refik Saydam Caddesi, the road between Taksim Square and Şişhane that passes below the wall of the British ...

To say that Aleksandar Serdar’s recital on November 13 will be a challenging one would be an understatement. He will need wrists of iron for this one. I wish him Kolay gelsin! Aleksandar Serdar is a ...

Tickets from Biletix.com. Price: 600TL. Important note: The gates to the church courtyard will be closed at 20:30, and no audience members will be admitted after that time.

Cornucopia’s choice: Turkey with a twist – the best current shows in Istanbul and around the world ...

Saturday 02 November, 16:00 / Wednesday 06 November, 20:00 Tickets from Biletinial. Prices: 170TL, 240TL, 315TL, 470TL, 635TL. Atatürk Cultural Centre (Atatürk ...

All four of the performers at this concert have extensive experience of playing improvised music. In my blog on a concert at the Bova Club on February 18, I said the following: ‘As the ...

Behind the painter Fausto Zonaro stood an extraordinary photographer, Elisa Zonaro, whose visual record of the Ottoman capital between 1890 and 1910 is brought together here for the first time.

Cornucopia’s choice: the performing arts in Istanbul and beyond ...

Cornucopia works in partnership with the digital publishing platform Exact Editions to offer individual and institutional subscribers unlimited access to a searchable archive of fascinating back ...

Talent Unlimited welcomes all to an evening benefit concert at Leighton House in Kensington, 20 November, 7pm. The multi-award winner musicians are Laure Chan, violin, and Dina Duisen, piano. Talent ...