On October 15 I made my way to BeyoÄŸlu for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by the artist RahÅŸan 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, ...