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Face to face: Robert Carsen and Frank Corsaro: now one of the opera world's foremost directors (Alcina, Les Boreades), Robert Carsen got his start as assistant to titan stage director Frank Corsaro, currently on the vocal arts faculty of the Juilliard School. Recently, Opera News reunited them for a discussion of visions, methods and surviving Bette Davis.(Interview)

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OPERA NEWS: This is a nice reunion for the two of you.

FRANK CORSARO: Oh yeah! We pass one another internationally now.

ON: Was your first contact at Glyndebourne, working on The Love for Three Oranges?

ROBERT CARSEN: Yes, I was Frank's assistant.

FC: We just had a great time. We were pals right away. I knew he wanted to be a director. It was very clear that he was a good one, and he turned out to be an exceptional one. We went on to do Oliver Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop!

RC: For Higglety Pigglety Pop!, the music was coming at us page by page, hot off the press. We'd sit there and say, "Well, ...

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