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 BeyoÄŸlu in the evening rush hour, braving the traffic on Refik Saydam Caddesi, the road between Taksim Square and ÅžiÅŸhane that passes below the wall of the British ...