Cornucopia Magazine Arts Diary

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, presented by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, directed by Stefano Poda and performed at...

Posted in Music & Performing Arts, - Opera

Maometto Secundo

By John Shakespeare Dyson | March 16, 2024

It had been far too long since I had been to the opera in Istanbul, so on February 28 I made a visit to the Atatürk Cultural Centre to attend a performance of Gioachino Rossini’s two-act opera Maometto Secundo (‘Mehmet II’), first performed in Naples in 1820. Suffice it to...

Posted in Music & Performing Arts, - Musical Shares, - Opera