FULL A Non-Tale about a Woman, a Woman, a Vagabond, a Traveling Singer and War (Keren-Huss) Jaffa 2014

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: A Non-Tale about a Woman, a Woman, a Vagabond, a Traveling Singer and War  
• Composer: Keren-Huss Kiki  
• Libretto: Kiki Keren-Huss    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: HaTeiva, Jaffa, Israel  
• Recorded: July 10, 2014
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Noa Frenkel, Reut Rivka Shabi, Doron Schleifer, Jack Shvili
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Kiki Keren-Huss  
• Stage Designer: Kiki Keren-Huss  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Rubinstein, Uri  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: TranquiloProductions  
• Date Published: 2014  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Quote from mimecentrum.de:
  The work is about war and the hatred of war.
  It speaks also about memory and traces the delicate ways in which people connect with one another. Both singers/actors and players are persent on stage. Each has his or her independent line/role, composed of a few sounds/words and long silences. Each role functions as a sort of inner monologue. Four figures move on stage while a war rages in the background: The ”vagabond” is coming from the war; the traveling singer sings anti war songs alternating with sweet lullabies to an invisible audience; the ”woman in the middle” moves around a table as she folds clothes, preparing a meal and humming to herself, waiting. The vagabond passes her way and a very delicate almost nonverbal bond begins to grow between them during three mostly silent encounters. The “Woman on the Side” is sitting by a table, singing to herself—as if in a dream— fragments from Monteverdi’s “Lamento dela Ninfa” interwoven with passages describing a woman moving about her empty rooms. In the background a voice of a man is heard reading a war diary. Parts of Zohar Eitan’s poem “Back Then” appear throughout the whole work. The opera begins with the poem’s opening words: “Back then, the people could watch the sunrise without narrowing their eyes, without blinking and with no sun glasses….”

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