Eytan Pessen
{{Short description|Israeli musical artist}}
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| name = Eytan Pessen
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| native_name = איתן פסן
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1961|08|30}}
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| origin = Haifa, Israel
| occupation = pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, opera director
| years_active = 1990–present
| label = Hera
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Eytan Pessen ({{Langx|he|איתן פסן}}; born 30 August 1961 in Haifa, Israel) is a German Israeli pianist and voice teacher, currently at the Opera houses of Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Warsaw, Vienna (Volksoper),{{cite web | url=https://www.wienerzeitung.at/tagsuche/?q=145381 | title=Eytan Pessen }} Wiener Zeitung online from 03.03.2022, referencing the newly founded opera studio of the Vienna Volksoper. Zürich and international festivals. He was former opera director of the Semperoper in Dresden, artistic advisor to Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and former casting director of the Staatstheater Stuttgart.
Early years
Born in Haifa, Israel, to parents of German-Jewish heritage, he studied Piano (with Dr. Nilly Shilo, Walter Aufhauser, Irina Zaritskaya and Dina Turgeman), composition (with Andre Hajdu and Daniel V. Oppenheim), and musicology at the Tel-Aviv University Rubin Academy, with a Bachelor of Music, summa cum Laude, in 1983, and a Masters of Music, magna cum laude, in 1984. Further Piano studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Vladimir Sokoloff, (voice studies at Curtis with Robert Grooters), and at the Juilliard School in New York with Marshal Williamson, Margo Garrett and Alberta Masiello. In New York he worked as pianist and coach for the Metropolitan Opera young artist's programme.Berlin Philharmonie, Concert Programme 25. September, 20:00, (Live im DeutschlandRadio Berlin)
Stuttgart Opera 1991-2006
As head of music staff and the casting directorStefan Schickhaus, Frankfurt sucht den Opernsänger, Frankfurter Rundschau, November 7, 2008 at the Stuttgart Opera in Germany, he worked under the German Dramaturge-Intendant Klaus Zehelein and Co-Intendant Pamela Rosenberg. When she left for San Francisco in 2001, he became casting director.Oakland Tribune, October 22, 2004, Stuttgart Reveals a New Way to Envision Tristan und IsoldeEs geht immer ums Ganze, Opernwelt Jahrbuch 2006, Friedrich Verlag, {{ISBN|978-3617529829}} In Stuttgart, Pessen launched the international carriers of conductors Constantinos Carydis, Nicola Luisotti,[http://www.operawarhorses.com/2012/11/17/a-maestro-of-music-and-metaphor-an-interview-with-nicola-luisotti/ Interview with Nicola Luisotti] retrieved June 2, 2013 Carlo Montanaro and Robin Ticciati. Singers Lucas Meachem and Eva-Maria Westbroek began their international careers during his Stuttgart tenure as well. Other guest artists were Brandon Jovanovich, Catherine Naglestad and Jonas Kaufmann, who explored Italian repertoire as Barbiere-Almaviva, Rodolfo and Alfredo.Staatstheater Stuttgart, Spielzeitheft 2004/05 und Spielzeitheft 2005/06 In Stuttgart Pessen promoted a series of unknown baroque and classic works, and conceived the chamber music series for the orchestra at the Mozart-Saal, which is still running today.Eytan Pessen, Chamber Music, in Kammerkonzerte 2004/05, Staatstheater Stuttgart p.74
Under Zehelein's leadership the Stuttgart Opera won the Opera house of the year award of European critics six times during the fifteen years.German Wikipedia article on the Opera House of the year award
RUHR.2010 2007-2010
Eytan Pessen was artistic advisor to the RUHR.2010 cultural festival under music director Steven Sloane. An intense collaboration ensued with the composer Hans Werner Henze, 2010 became a year-long Hans Werner Henze project,Marietta Piekenbrock, the story is set in oberhausen, Steven Sloane and Eytan Pessen in conversation with Marietta Piekenbrock, Kulturhauptstadt Europas Ruhr.2010, published by Ruhr2010, 2009 pp. 11-13 which spanned many cities, opera and ballet companies as well as symphony orchestras and chamber music groups. Henze wrote his last opera, Gisela! For the RUHR.2010 (an opera for and about youth, premiered at the RuhrTriennale).
Semperoper Dresden 2010-2013
As opera director of the Semperoper, he invited the composer Hans Werner Henze and the director Stefan Herheim to return each season for different projects. He chose to collaborate with a young generation of directors including Bettina Bruinier, Jan Phillip Gloger, Florentine Klepper, Axel Köhler, Michael Schulz, Elisabeth Stöppler and Manfred Weiss.Biography in the programme for the May 10, 2013 Wagner-Soiree ‚A birthday song-bouquet for Richard Wagner’, Semperoper Dresden
Interested in the artistic benefits of a stable musical ensemble working together over a long period,Martin Morgenstern, Musik in Dresden (online magazine) [http://www.musik-in-dresden.de/2012/01/29/eytan-pessen, Interview (in German): I do not seek sound producers, I seek artists] retrieved 13.05.2013 he chose to extend the Ensemble and the young ensemble (the Dresden opera's studio programme) rather than invest in established guests.Article about Pessen (in German): Boris Michael Gruhl, Träume mit Praxisbezug, 24. October 2010, Musik in Dresden Online Magazine, [http://www.musik-in-dresden.de/2010/10/24/traeume-mit-praxisbezug-eytan-pessen-ist-neuer-operndirektor-an-der-semperoper] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030025421/http://www.musik-in-dresden.de/2010/10/24/traeume-mit-praxisbezug-eytan-pessen-ist-neuer-operndirektor-an-der-semperoper|date=2010-10-30}}, retrieved, June 1, 2013.{{Cite web |url=http://newswire.scena.org/2010/04/semperoper-dresden-offers-scintillating.html |title=LSM Newswire: Semperoper Dresden Offers Scintillating 2010-11 Season |access-date=2017-05-18 |archive-date=2016-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819093547/http://newswire.scena.org/2010/04/semperoper-dresden-offers-scintillating.html |url-status=dead }} Artists such as Scott Connor, Emily Dorn,{{Cite web|url=https://piperartists.com/portfolio/emily-dorn/|title=Emily Dorn – Piper Artists Management|website=piperartists.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.semperoper.de/en/ensemble/personen/peid/emily-dorn/4128.html|title=Emily Dorn – Persons – Semperoper Dresden|website=www.semperoper.de}} Vanessa Goikoexea,{{Cite web|url=https://www.semperoper.de/en/ensemble/personen/peid/vanessa-goikoetxea/259.html|title=Vanessa Goikoetxea – Persons – Semperoper Dresden|website=www.semperoper.de}}{{Cite web|url=https://operawire.com/vanessa-goikoetxea-takes-over-cosi-fan-tutte-at-teatro-de-la-maestranza/|title=Vanessa Goikoetxea Takes Over 'Così fan tutte' at Teatro de la Maestranza|date=October 9, 2020|website=Opera Wire}} Evan Hughes,{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/semperoperdresden/docs/semper_no.2_2015-16|title=Semper Magazin No.2 2015/16 by Semperoper Dresden - Issuu|website=issuu.com|date=20 October 2015 }} Christopher Magiera, Amanda Majeski, Marjorie Owens,{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/semperoper/docs/spielzeitbrosch_re_2010_11_semperoper_dresden|title=Spielzeitbroschüre 2010/11 Semperoper Dresden by Semperoper Dresden - Issuu|website=issuu.com|date=8 June 2010 }} Tichina Vaughn, Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Sebastian Wartig belonged to the permanent ensemble.
Conductors that made their debut in Dresden include Josep Caballé Domenech, Julia Jones (conductor),German Wikipedia link Nicola Luisotti,Article about the conductor Luisotti's debut in Dresden, [http://www.loschermo.it/articoli/view/32773] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222061527/http://www.loschermo.it/articoli/view/32773|date=2014-02-22}}, retrieved, June 2, 2013Italian article about the conductor Nicola Luisotti in La Scala and elsewhere, [http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/regione/2011/06/22/news/la-bacchetta-d-ulivo-di-nicola-luisotti-conquista-la-scala-1.2550856], retrieved June 2, 2013 Michele Mariotti, Carlo Montanaro, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Henrik Nánási, Daniel Oren and Omer Meir Wellber. Pessen widened the repertory span to include commissions from :de:Miroslav Srnka and Lucia Ronchetti,{{Cite web|url=http://www.luciaronchetti.com/en/music-theater-projects-by-lucia-ronchetti/p20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723135014/http://www.luciaronchetti.com/en/music-theater-projects-by-lucia-ronchetti/p20|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 23, 2014|title=Lucia Ronchetti}} as well as Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus, Jaromir Weinberger’s Svanda Dudák, (Schwanda the Bagpiper), Kurt Weill’s Street Scene (opera), Hans Werner Henze's Gisela! and We Come to the River.
For this performance the famous theatre interior (by the architect Gottfried Semper) was completely rebuilt with three vast set parts (designed by Rebecca Ringst and Anette Hunger) jutting into the audience space and reaching up toward the balcony.
File:Henze We Come to the River, at the Semperoper.JPG
For the Wagner year 2013 he conceived a mini-festival that explored Richard Wagner's development years in Dresden,
Eytan Pessen, Eine Mitteilung an Meiner Freunde, Essay in the season Yearbook of the Semperoper 2011-2012, Published March 2011. Online version: [http://issuu.com/semperoperdresden/docs/8_heft_3_wagner_issuu] retrieved July, 2013 combining Wagner's The Flying Dutchman with Gaspare Spontini's La Vestale and Halevy's La Juive.
File:Semperoper Ensemble, 2011.jpg
Opening up the Semperoper to the general public, he often wrote essays and editorials; in one case counting the calories burnt going to different operas,Online Version of Editorial Semper Magazine Number 2, 2010-2011, [http://issuu.com/semperoperdresden/docs/so_semper_no2_web_issue], retrieved June 15, 2013,Online Version of Editorial Semper Magazine Number 3, 2011-2012 [http://issuu.com/semperoperdresden/docs/so_semper_no3_web_einzel], retrieved June 15, 2013 or imagining a conversation with the Gargoyles decorating the new building of the Semperoper.Über Musen, Masken und Magie in „Saisonvorschau Semperoper Dresden“ 2011/12 pp. 14-17, Yearbook – season catalogue for 2011/12, published by Semperoper Dresden For the programme notes of Alcina he wrote a poem describing the first performance of Alcina through the eyes of a young boy.Eytan Pessen „Alcina“ in Covent Garden, 1735, in Programmheft Alcina, Semperoper Dresden, October, 2011
Pianist, Voice teacher and coach
Eytan Pessen now teaches voice and piano; since 2007 at the Frankfurt Opera,{{Cite web|url=https://www.fr.de/|title=Nachrichten aus Deutschland und der Welt | Frankfurter Rundschau|website=www.fr.de}}Season 2008/2009, Oper Frankfurt, p. 70{{Cite web |url=http://www.oper-frankfurt.de/de/spielplan/oper-finale/?id_datum=314 |title=Spielplan - Oper Frankfurt |access-date=2016-06-16 |archive-date=2016-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515161100/http://www.oper-frankfurt.de/de/spielplan/oper-finale/?id_datum=314 |url-status=dead }} since 2014 at the IOS in Zürich,{{Cite web |url=https://www.opernhaus.ch/en/ensemble/international-opera-studio/ |title=International Opera Studio - Ensemble - Opernhaus Zürich |access-date=2017-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517022222/http://www.opernhaus.ch/en/ensemble/international-opera-studio/ |archive-date=2017-05-17 |url-status=dead }} since 2018 at the Dutch national opera since 2020 at the Hamburg State Opera,{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkp6XCJ7l5s | title=Öffentlicher Meisterkurs mit Eytan Pessen (2021) | website=YouTube | date=3 October 2021 }} and since 2022 at the Volksoper Wien.{{cite web | url=https://www.wienerzeitung.at/tagsuche/?q=145381 | title=Eytan Pessen }} Wiener Zeitung online from 03.03.2022, referencing the newly founded opera studio of the Vienna Volksoper.[https://www.volksoper.at/volksoper_wien/unserHaus/Opernstudio.en.php] Volksoper Wien website, retrieved November 2022
He often gives masterclasses for singers, pianists and accompanists at the Les Azuriales festival,{{Cite web |url=https://www.azurialopera.com/summer-programme |title=Young artist programme | les Azuriales Opera |access-date=2017-05-18 |archive-date=2018-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730170924/https://www.azurialopera.com/summer-programme |url-status=dead }} Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt,{{Cite web|url=https://meistersingerakademie.com/faculty|title = IMA - Internationale Meistersinger Akademie}}Mittelbayerische Zeitung, 12.07.2013 Stimmen die unter die haut gehen, Online version: [http://www.mittelbayerische.de/region/neumarkt/artikel/stimmen-die-unter-die-haut-gehen/937849/stimmen-die-unter-die-haut-gehen.html], retrieved July 18, 2013 the Scuola d’Opera in BolognaWebsite of the Scuola d'opera in Bologna, [http://scuolaoperaitaliana.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=62&Itemid=176] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221124626/http://scuolaoperaitaliana.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=62&Itemid=176|date=2014-12-21}},(retrieved June 12, 2013) Duszniki Zdroj,{{Cite web|url=http://dokis.pl/events/view-festival/395|title = Zimowy Kurs Wokalny w Dusznikach-Zdroju, Festiwale - DOKiS.pl - Dolnośląska kultura i sztuka}} Oberlin in Italy, San Francisco Opera, North Carolina School of Arts, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kaunas Music Academy,{{Cite web|url=http://ma.vdu.lt/menine-veikla/tarptautiniai-meistriskumo-kursai|title = Tarptautiniai meistriškumo kursai|date = 17 February 2019}} New Israeli Opera, Vinterakademi Voksenåsen (Oslo),{{cite web| url = http://www.voksenaasen.no/arrangement/vinterakademiet-19-21-januar/| title = Side ikke funnet - Voksenåsen| access-date = 2018-06-02| archive-date = 2018-07-30| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180730202625/http://www.voksenaasen.no/arrangement/vinterakademiet-19-21-januar/| url-status = dead}} the Mikhailovsky theatre in Saint Petersburg{{Cite web|url=https://mikhailovsky.ru/en/afisha/repertoire/die_zauberflote/|title = Die Zauberflöte - Mikhailovsky Theatre St Petersburg}} Festival FAOT in Sonora, Mexico,
{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/iscsonora/docs/programa_faot_2019|title = Programa Faot 2019| date=16 December 2018 }} the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá,{{Cite web|url=https://filarmonicabogota.gov.co/category/clases-magistrales/|title = Clases Magistrales archivos ⋆ Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá| date=9 February 2023 }} The Turku festival in Finland,{{Cite web|url=https://visitturku.fi/en/turku-music-festival_en-0|title = Kissmyturku.fi}}{{cite web| url = https://www.turunmusiikkijuhlat.fi/en/masterclass/| title = Sivua ei löytynyt - Turun musiikkijuhlat| access-date = 2019-11-26| archive-date = 2019-08-18| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190818190328/https://www.turunmusiikkijuhlat.fi/en/masterclass/| url-status = dead}} and the theatres of Stuttgart, Graz and Dresden,An der Schwelle zur Professionalität (Joachim Lange) Die Deutsche Bühne, January 2012, ASIN: B000M9CCOG, S.40-41 Ópera de bellas artes in Mexico City,https://www.facebook.com/Estudio-de-la-%C3%93pera-de-Bellas-Artes-EOBA-110425190612254/ {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=August 2022}}{{cite web | url=https://proopera.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/14-17-opedos-mzo19-%25E2%2588%259A.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730165057/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:69QrVBk0j6cJ:https://proopera.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/14-17-opedos-mzo19-%25E2%2588%259A.pdf+&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=mx | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 30, 2022 | title=Ópera en los estados }} Fundación Ibáñez Atkinson al Teatro Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile,{{cite web | url=https://www.operala.org/fundacion-ibanez-atkinson-masterclass-eytan-pessen-y-matthias-rexroth/ | title=Fundación Ibáñez Atkinson ofrece masterclass de Eytan Pessen y Matthias Rexroth para cantantes líricos en Santiago | Ópera Latinoamérica | date=27 March 2024 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.operaactual.com/noticia/atencion-jovenes-cantantes-latinoamericanos-la-fundacion-ibanez-atkinson-organiza-audiciones/ |title=Atención jóvenes cantantes latinoamericanos: La Fundación Ibáñez Atkinson organiza audiciones }} the Theaterakademie in Munich, the Académie of the Paris national opera and from 2013-2020 at the Akademia Operowa of the Grand Theatre, Warsaw (Teatr Wielki i Opera Narodowa w Warszawie),{{Cite web|url=https://teatrwielki.pl/en/ludzie/eytan-pessen/|title=Eytan Pessen|website=Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa}}{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/pXtfloMIJqQ| archive-date = 2021-12-09| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXtfloMIJqQ| title = Workshop with Eytan Pessen, Izabella Kłosińska at Teatr Wielki - PNO | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} as well as numerous workshops for ENOA.{{cite web| url = http://www.enoa-community.com/workshop/workshop-for-singers-and-pianists-with-eytan-pessen/| title = enoa| access-date = 2015-11-01| archive-date = 2016-08-27| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160827104932/http://www.enoa-community.com/workshop/workshop-for-singers-and-pianists-with-eytan-pessen/| url-status = dead}}{{cite web| url = https://twitter.com/AkademiaOperowa| title = Opera Academy Warsaw (@AkademiaOperowa) / Twitter}}
Pessen performs in recitals and concerts with Giorgio Berrugi,Online Wigmore Hall concert information: [http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/giorgio-berrugi-tenor-eytan-pessen-piano-33365] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828182537/http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/giorgio-berrugi-tenor-eytan-pessen-piano-33365|date=2013-08-28}}, retrieved July, 2013{{Cite web |url=http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=11536 |title=Giorgio Berrugi & Eytan Pessen at Wigmore Hall – Rosenblatt Recital @www.classicalsource.com |access-date=2015-10-24 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193219/http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=11536 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://operalounge.de/features/portraits-interviews/giorgio-berrugi|title=GIORGIO BERRUGI|date=January 6, 2016}} Justina Bluj, Andrei Bondarenko,{{Cite web |url=https://kultur.net/taxonomy/term/10/www.acv.at?page=61 | title=Tickets und Infos Schloss Lamberg FALCO MEETS QUEEN - the Tribute Show | Kultur.net }} Emily Dorn, Gala El Hadidi, Andrzej Filończyk,{{Cite web|url=https://magazynterazpolska.pl/pl/a/talent-i-praca|title=Talent i praca|website=magazynterazpolska.pl|language=pl-PL|access-date=2018-12-17}} Armelle Arménouhi Khourdoïan,{{Cite web|url=https://operakameralna.pl/|title=Warszawska Opera Kameralna - spektakle, musicale, koncerty, opery|website=Warszawska Opera Kameralna}} Pawel Konik, Maciej Kwaśnikowski, Keith Lewis, Angela Liebold,{{Cite web|url=https://www.musik-in-dresden.de/2012/05/16/lieder-in-semper-2-so-ist-die-lieb-mit-angela-liebold-am-18-mai/|title = Lieder in Semper 2: »So ist die Lieb'«|date = 16 May 2012}} Amanda Majeski, Markus Marquardt, Danylo Matviienko, Christa Mayer, Paula Murrihy, Marjorie Owens, Michał Partyka, Christoph Pohl, Matthias Rexroth,Vienna, Concert information, [http://www.freikarte.at/1/40/veranstaltung/18657/18657_mobile.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130807154649/http://www.freikarte.at/1/40/veranstaltung/18657/18657_mobile.html|date=2013-08-07}}, (retrieved July, 2013) Katharina Ruckgaber,{{cite web| url = http://katharinaruckgaber.com/events/soiree-des-opernstudios-amor-voce-del-cielo/| title = Seite nicht gefunden – Katharina Ruckgaber, Soprano| access-date = 2018-06-02| archive-date = 2018-07-30| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180730171005/http://katharinaruckgaber.com/events/soiree-des-opernstudios-amor-voce-del-cielo/| url-status = dead}} Iurii Samoilov, Michal Shamir,Artist Website, [http://www.michalshamir.com/EnglishExtra.htm], (retrieved July 1, 2013) Merto Sungu, Mikołaj Trąbka, Tichina Vaughn, Eva-Maria Westbroek,{{Cite web|url=https://www.concertgebouw.nl/en/page/32087|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730170759/https://www.concertgebouw.nl/en/page/32087|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 30, 2018|title=Eva-Maria Westbroek and musicians of the RCO}} Rachel Willis-Sørensen[http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/theater/veranst/tvtb0063.html Concert announcement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221180434/http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/theater/veranst/tvtb0063.html |date=2014-02-21 }}, retrieved June 12, 2013 Jan Żądło and Mira Zakai.
As a voice teacher, Pessen has worked with such singers as Xabier Anduaga,https://festivalnapavalley.org/artists/ Alejandro Del Angel,https://teatrwielki.pl/ludzie/alejandro-del-angel/ Michael Fabiano,https://www.gramilano.com/2022/03/interview-american-tenor-michael-fabiano/ Andrzej Filonczyk,https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/de/kuenstler/andrzej-filonczyk.3029/ Pawel Konik,https://www.sas.rochester.edu/psc/CPCES/events/fall16/event4.html Tomasz Kumięga,https://www.agenceartistiquecedelle.com/tomasz-kumiega-english-version Aleksey Kursanov,https://www.staatstheater-kassel.de/person/3212 Danylo Matviienko,https://opern.news/thek/kapitel/2364 Jakub Józef Orliński,https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/stories/jakub-jozef-orlinski/ [https://www.jasminjwhite.com Jasmin White],https://www.instagram.com/jazziejanae/?hl=de and Jan Żądło.https://www.debut.de/en/participants/participant/jan-zadlo
With Motti Kastón[http://www.freunde-juedischer-kultur-esslingen.de/archiv2008.htm Concert Information] (retrieved June 25, 2013) and Helene Schneiderman he produced a CD of songs in Jiddish and Ladino.{{Cite web|url=http://www.crotchet.co.uk/HERA02110.html|title=CD source|access-date=2013-08-01|archive-date=2014-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020161621/http://www.crotchet.co.uk/HERA02110.html|url-status=dead}} Recent appearances include the Concertgebouw Amsterdam,{{Cite web|url=https://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/en/eytan-pessen|title = Eytan Pessen – Concertgebouworkest}} Rheingau Musikfestival, Bochum Symphony,Concert review, Westdeutsche Zeitung, 23.07.2003, Bochum edition and the theatres of Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Dresden, the Rossini in Wildbad Festival, the Miskolc Festival,[https://archive.today/20130821062119/http://revizoronline.com.dark.webs.hu/hu/cikk/1598/matthias-rexroth-koncertje-miskolci-nemzetkozi-operafesztival-2009/?label_id=2131&first=0 Concert review (hungarian)](retrieved June, 2013) as well as radio broadcasts NDR Hamburg, DeutschlandRadio Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonie and Stuttgart opera.
Consulting and Judge
He was jury member of the Concorso Lirico Salvatore Licitra in Milan,[https://www.equivocimusicali.com/concorso-licitra.html] Website of Equivoci Musicali, the producer of the Concorso Salvatore Licitra. Retrieved February 2023 the Stanislav Moniuszko competition in Warsaw,Biography competition publication, Online version: [http://www.teatrwielki.pl/en/moniuszko_vocal_competition/moniuszko_vocal_competition_2013/jury/eytan_pessen.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102205144/http://www.teatrwielki.pl/en/moniuszko_vocal_competition/moniuszko_vocal_competition_2013/jury/eytan_pessen.html|date=2013-11-02}}, (retrieved 13.07.13) Antonina Campi International Voice competition in Lublin,{{cite web| url = http://www.dziennikwschodni.pl/co-gdzie-kiedy/festiwale/lublin-w-centrum-spotkania-kultur-szukaja-najlepszego-glosu,| title = Dziennik Wschodni - Lublin, Lubelskie, Lubelszczyzna - wiadomości, informacje, aktualności, artykuły, wydarzenia}} n,1000193968.html Concorso Voci Verdiane Busseto,{{cite web| url = http://www.parmapress24.it/2017/06/19/busseto-55-concorso-voci-verdiane-vincitori-foto/55-concorso-internazionale-voci-verdiane-eytan-pessen-premia-luisa-tambaro-annina_ph-elisa-contini/| title = 55 Concorso Internazionale Voci Verdiane, Eytan Pessen premia Luisa Tambaro (Annina)_ph Elisa Contini - ParmaPress24| date = 25 July 2023}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.vociverdiane.com/?page_id=1219|title = ENGLISH 2017 - Concorso Internazionale Voci Verdiane "Città di Busseto"}} the Belvedere competition in Vienna,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/NewOldClassicalSingerForum/americans-win-belvedere-vocal-competition-t10536.html|title = NewOldClassicalSingerForum - Information}}Musical America, July 12, 2006 as well as the Marcello Giordani competition in Catania,[https://www.cantarelopera.com/farsi-conoscere/concorsi-p/3-concorso-internazionale-di-canto-lirico-marcello-giordani-ed-europea.php] Online Website giving details of the competition and jury members. Replacing original competition website which was taken down. Retrieved April 2023. the Aviv competition in Tel Aviv, El Premio de Canto Ciudad de Bogotá,{{Cite web|url=https://blogbagatela.wordpress.com/tag/premiaciones/|title=Premiaciones – Página 27|website=blogbagatela.wordpress.com}} The 5th International Solomiya Krushelnytska Opera Singers Competition,{{cite web| url = https://opera.lviv.ua/pl/season-120/lvivska-natsionalna-opera-vpershe-za-desyatylittya-provede-masshtabnyj-konkurs-spivakiv-2/| title = 5 Międzynarodowy Konkurs Śpiewaków Operowych imienia Solomii Krushelnytskej - Lwowski Narodowy Akademicki Teatr Opery i Baletu}}{{Cite web|url=https://krushelnytska.com.ua/en/about-competition/jury/|title = Jury}} Concorso Internationale di Assisi, Concorso Aslico in ComoWebsite information: [http://www.aslico.org/en/concorso/presentazione.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507064045/http://www.aslico.org/en/concorso/presentazione.htm|date=2013-05-07}}, (retrieved July, 2013) and the Queen Sonja International Music Competition.{{Cite web | title=Jury - The Queen Sonja International Music Competition | url=https://qsimc.no/en/the-2021-competition/jury | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021023849/https://qsimc.no/en/the-2021-competition/jury | access-date=2025-03-24 | archive-date=2021-10-21}} He was advisor to the Juan Pons International Competition in Palma de Mallorca.https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/juanpons?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=August 2022}} The year 2011 he was artistic advisor for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and from December 2012 to 2014, was advisor to Teatro Massimo in Palermo,Press release Teatro Massimo, [http://www.teatromassimo.it/URP/urp.php?articolo=503&lang=it] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316023140/http://www.teatromassimo.it/URP/urp.php?articolo=503&lang=it|date=2014-03-16}}, (retrieved 13.07.2013){{Cite web|url=https://www.rondomagazin.de/artikel.php?artikel_id=1398|title=Musikinsel – Sizilien|website=www.rondomagazin.de}} where he programmed [http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/oper-feuersnot-von-richard-strauss-liebesgruesse-aus-sizilien/9398216.html Richard Strauss’] Feuersnot,La Repubblica, June 11, 2013 Palermo Teatro MassimoCorriere del Mezzogiorno, 11.06.2013, Online version: [http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/palermo/notizie/arte_e_cultura/2013/11-giugno-2013/teatro-massimo-all-opera-tutto-pronto-la-stagione-2014-debutta-emma-dante-2221596730039.shtml] (retrieved July 13, 2013) Jaromír Weinberger's Schwanda the BagpiperRondo magazine, Ausgabe 6, 2014 (in German) and Hans Werner Henze's Gisela!.{{Cite web|url=https://www.giornaledellamusica.it/recensioni/emma-dante-incontra-henze|title = Emma Dante incontra Henze| date=21 January 2015 }}
Sources
- Interview: Marietta Piekenbrock der schauplatz ist oberhausen, Steven Sloane and Eytan Pessen in conversation with Kulturhauptstadt Europas Ruhr.2010, published by Ruhr2010, 2009
- Interview: REGJO Wagnerspuren ‚Semper Wagner’ S.22-24 Special edition Wagnerspuren Sachsen, April 2013
- Michael Kerstan Gisela!, 13 April 2008, in Hans Werner Henze, work diary excerpts published in das henze-projekt neue musik für eine metropole, 2009, RUHR.2010
- Biography in the programme for the May 10, 2013 Wagner-Soiree ‚A birthday song-bouquet for Richard Wagner’, Semperoper Dresden
- Joachim Lange, An der Schwelle zur Professionalität, ''Die Deutsche Bühne, January 2012, S.40-41
- Revolution in der Semperoper, Sächsische Zeitung 11.12.2012
- Adieux Frau Hessler, Sächsische Zeitung 24.11.2012
- Staatstheater Stuttgart, Spielzeit 2004/05 und Spielzeit 2005/06
- [https://archive.today/20130807154716/http://www.ilmoderatore.it/2013/06/11/teatro-massimo-presentazione-stagione-teatrale-18181/ Video interview, teatro Massimo in Palermo] (retrieved July 2013)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3dV0ayM18 Youtube Eulogy for the deceased general director of the Semperoper, Ulrike Hessler.] (retrieved July, 2013)
- [http://www.polskieradio.pl/8/1594/Artykul/1618430,Eytan-Pessen-zawsze-placze-przy-Paderewskim Radio Interview (in Polish) Moniuszko Competition]
Writings
Poems
- Eytan Pessen, [http://www.melicreview.com/archive/iss21/epessen.html Chopin in Stuttgart] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130442/http://www.melicreview.com/archive/iss21/epessen.html |date=2016-03-05 }}, in C. E. Chaffin, The Best of the Melic Review, 2001 pp. 88–93, ISBN pending
- Eytan Pessen, [https://web.archive.org/web/20151121070907/http://kulturchronist.20six.de/kulturchronist/art/233947/ Chamber Music], in Kammerkonzerte 2004/05, Staatstheater Stuttgart p. 74
- Eytan Pessen „Alcina“ in Covent Garden, 1735, in Programmheft Alcina, Semperoper Dresden, October, 2011
Essays(selection)
- Eytan Pessen, Endings and Beginnings, in „Anders“, raumzeit3 Verlag, {{ISBN|398110076X}} {{ISBN|978-3981100761}} (2006)
- Eytan Pessen, Über Musen, Masken und Magie in „Saisonvorschau Semperoper Dresden“ 2011/12 pp. 14–17, Yearbook – season catalogue for 2011/12, published by Semperoper Dresden
- Eytan Pessen, Zusammenhängende Reliquien, Eine Geschichte über Richard Wagner und Gottfried Semper. Special publication for the Wagner year 2013, Semperoper Dresden.
- A row of essays in the opera programme notes of the Semperoper Dresden, letters to composers (selection) Sehr verehrter Maestro Hasse August, 2010, Lieber Hans September, 2010, Dear Kurt Weill, Juni 2011, Sommo Maestro Monteverdi, Februar 2011
- Eytan Pessen, Rozhinkes mit Mandeln in ‚Ulrike Hessler Errinerungen’, in Semper Nr. 2, 2012-2013
- Eytan Pessen, Heart in the south (in German) (of Hans Werner Henze) in Semper Nr.3, p. 51,2012-2013{{Cite web|url=http://issuu.com/semperoperdresden/docs/so_semper_no3_web_einzel|title = Semper Magazin No. 3 12/13| date=13 November 2012 }}
You Tube Links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBTk5dgWCQ Cilea, Giorgio Berrugi, Wigmore Hall]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msez63dLZ2E Alban Berg, Op. 2, Christa Mayer, Semperoper Dresden]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O3fcHVu9hI&t=1s Robert Schumann, Der Einsiedler, with tenor Maciej Kwaśnikowski]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnllQ0r1Qo Franz Liszt, three songs, with Baritone Pavol Kuban, Semperoper Dresden]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BidUyMhijoQ Gaspare Spontini, Mignon, with Emily Dorn, Semperoper Dresden]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ek1En_N6sI Wagner Lieder, Markus Marquardt, Semperoper Dresden]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrQoNU1N4dc Richard Strauss, Morgen, Carolina Ullrich, Semperoper Dresden]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PRX3fY-yjI Rachmaninoff, Andrej Dunaev, Semperoper Dresden]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP1UubUwMFI Respighi, Giorgio Berrugi Wigmore Hall]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn9jLbWFWKM Gliere, Danylo Matviienko, Warsaw, Teatr Wielki]
Yiddish
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3hzeF0HNxc Unter Beymer, Yiddish song, with Motti Kaston, Esslingen]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLM_2nfPDJo Eynzam, Yiddish, with Mateusz Hoedt, Warsaw Teatr Wielki]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RfQrXufuUc Yankele, with Marcjanna Myrlak, Warsaw, Teatr Wielki]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlC_9sImkJ0 Rozhinkas mit Mandlen, with Christoph Pohl, Semperoper]
Folk
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfF-e2XPTMM Rumanian Christmas Carol, With Roxana Incontrera, Semperoper Dresden]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPOBEzVuVjM Al la una yo naci, Giorgio Berrugi, Wigmore Hall]
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