Eytan Pessen (born 30 August 1961 in Haifa, Israel) is a pianist and voice teacher, currently at the Opera houses of Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Vienna (Volksoper),[1] Zürich and international festivals.

[2] As head of music staff and the casting director[3] at the Stuttgart Opera in Germany, he worked under the German Dramaturge-Intendant Klaus Zehelein and Co-Intendant Pamela Rosenberg.

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.

[13][14] Artists such as Scott Connor, Emily Dorn,[15][16] Vanessa Goikoexea,[17][18] Evan Hughes,[19] Christopher Magiera, Amanda Majeski, Marjorie Owens,[20] Tichina Vaughn, Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Sebastian Wartig belonged to the permanent ensemble.

Pessen widened the repertory span to include commissions from de:Miroslav Srnka and Lucia Ronchetti,[24] 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!

[11] 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.

[54][55] Pessen performs in recitals and concerts with Giorgio Berrugi,[56][57][58] Justina Bluj, Emily Dorn, Gala El Hadidi, Andrzej Filończyk,[59] Armelle Arménouhi Khourdoïan,[60] Pawel Konik, Maciej Kwaśnikowski, Keith Lewis, Angela Liebold,[61] Amanda Majeski, Markus Marquardt, Danylo Matviienko, Christa Mayer, Paula Murrihy, Marjorie Owens, Michał Partyka,[60] Christoph Pohl, Matthias Rexroth,[62] Katharina Ruckgaber,[63] Iurii Samoilov, Michal Shamir,[64] Merto Sungu, Mikołaj Trąbka, Tichina Vaughn, Eva-Maria Westbroek,[65] Rachel Willis-Sørensen[66] and Jan Żądło.