The Turkish Republic turns 100 today – not just another candle on the cake, but a reliving of a moment of defiance. A nascent state claimed a very different destiny from that envisaged for it by the ...

The works of the Portuguese-British artist, Paula Rego, are now exhibited in Turkey for the first time. Curated by Alistair Hicks, the exhibition was planned with the participation of the late artist, ...

On June 8 I took a train on the Marmaray line to Söğütlüçeşme, the station in the valley behind Kadıköy through which the Kurbağalıdere Stream passes on its way to join the Sea of Marmara.

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, ...

These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the opening wall – an ode to clay and its transformative process. This poem introduces ...

On October 16 I made my way to the Süreyya Opera House in Kadıköy to hear the violinist Bahar Büyükgönenç and the pianist Tutu Aydınoğlu play works by Zoltán Kodály, Johannes Brahms, Manuel de Falla, ...

Readers of Cornucopia might think they need no introduction to the work of Monica Fritz. For the last decade she has been photographer at large for this magazine, returning from assignments with sharp ...

St Anthony’s College, 62 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6JF Visiting Syrian musician, Ibrahim Muslimani, and Oxford Maqam, the UK’s most prominent Arab Classical Music ensemble are giving a concert at ...

This concert features oboist Ayşin Kiremitçi (a member of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra) and pianist Serra Taşdelen in a selection of works by Baroque composers such as Pergolesi, ...

According to Wikipedia, a ‘passacaglia’ is ‘a musical form that originated in early 17th-century Spain and is still used today by composers. It is usually of a serious character and is typically based ...

Paris has its Centre Pompidou. There’s the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; in Athens, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC). And now Istanbul, too, has a major ...

This recital focusses on the Romantic lieder (German art songs) of Johannes Brahms (1833-97), performed by members of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet company.