Eitan Steinberg & Etty BenZaken
Eitan & Etty: Chamber operas,
Music-Theater, Installations
Incantation
Music-Video work (2020)
Etty BenZaken: Script, directing, design, fabric art-work.
Eitan Steinberg: Music.
Premiere: December 2020 "Israel Music Fest" and "Poem Balev" concert series, as part of Modalius' "Whole World" project | Conductor: Eitan Steinberg | Voice & performance: Etty BenZaken | Instrumentalists: Modalius Ensemble | Video Photography: Oryan Edelenyi, Jonathan Ben-Shabetai, Yoav Ben-Shabetai | Stills photography: Dima Valershtein | Video Editing: Yaara Nirel
Search Expedition 220
Chamber Opera (60 min., 2019)
Eitan Steinberg: Music.
Etty BenZaken: Stage directing, stage design, fabric art-works.
Text: multi-lingual fragments edited by Etty BenZaken.
Premier: Israel Music Fest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2019 | Conductor: Eitan Steinberg | Singers-Actresses: Etty BenZaken and Alma Vocal Ensemble | Instrumentalists: Modalius Ensemble | Lighting Design: Uri Rubinstein | Amplification: Amit Pais | Assistant-director: Ehud Vardi.
Amulet for The Widening of The Heart
Installation (2015)
Eitan Steinberg: Music and sound design.
Etty BenZaken: Fabric art-works.
Commission and support: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Polonskyfamily | Premier: as part of the exhibition "What is Memory? 70 Years Later" at the Polonsky Academy, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2015 | Lighting design: Uri Rubinstein | Recording engineer: Rafi Eshel.
The Fool
Music-Theater for a singer-actress, viola and percussion
(Chamber version of "The Fool who Loved Singing", 30 min., 2007)
Eitan Steinberg: Music.
Etty BenZaken: Stage directing, stage design, text.
Premiere: Musiktriennale, Koln, Germany, 2007 | Performers: Etty BenZaken (singer-actress), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Robyn Schulkovsky (percussion) | Recording: WDR | Costumes: Barak Aviam.
The Fool Who Loved Singing
Music-Theater for a singer-actress, a dancer, narrator & ensemble (30 min., 2006)
Eitan Steinberg: Music.
Etty BenZaken: Stage directing, stage design, text.
Commission and premiere: the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, 2006 | Performers: Etty BenZaken (singer-actress) Anat Shamgar (dancer), Josef Sprinzak (sound-text artist), Michael Melzer, Yael Melzer (recorder players), Galia Hai (viola), Chagit Glazer (cello), Oded Shoub (guitar), Alon Sariel (mandolin), Amnon Yoel (percussion) | Costumes: Barak Aviam | Lighting design: Judy Kupferman
Stabat Mater - A Human Prayer
Music-Theater for singer-actress, string quartet & 2 percussion players (30 min., 2004)
Eitan Steinberg: Music.
Etty BenZaken: Stage directing, stage design, fabric art-work, text (alongside folk and traditional texts.
Commission and premier: the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, Israel, 2004 | Additional support: the Jehoshua Rabinowitz Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts | Performers: Etty BenZaken and the Israeli Contemporary Quartet, Aug. 2004 | Costumes: Margalit BenZaken | Arabic translation: Gasan Jammal | Lighting design: Hanni Vardi | American premier: Durham, North Carolina, March 2006, by Etty BenZaken and ensemble Mallarme | European premier: Lisbon, Portugal, October 2007, by Etty BenZaken and Ensemble Orchestrautopica.
The Sultan is Pregnant
Music-Theater for a singer-actress and ensemble (30 min., 2002)
Eitan Steinberg: Music.
Etty BenZaken: Stage directing, stage design, text.
Commission and premier: the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, 2002 | Performers: Etty BenZaken and the festival's ensemble, conductor: Eitan Steinberg | Costumes: Margalit BenZaken | Arabic translation: Gasan Jammal | Lighting design: Uri Rubinstein | American premiere: Boston, USA, 2004, by Etty BenZaken and Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman.
Princess of Five Faces
Music-Theater for a singer-actress and ensemble (30 min., 1995)
Eitan Steinberg: Music.
Etty BenZaken: Stage directing, stage design, masks, text (inspired by "Dictionary of the Khazars" by Milorad Pavic).
Premier: the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, 1995 | Performers: Etty BenZaken (singer-actress), Eyal Lerner (recorders), Shmuel Katz (violin), Avri Levitan (viola), Yagi Malka (cello), Danny Akiva (guitar), Chen Cimbalista, Yuval Micenmacher (percussion) | Costumes: Margalit BenZaken | Assistant director: Sigal Fishtein | Lighting design: Felice Ross.
