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Frank Corsaro

  • Director, Artistic/Stage

Repertoire/Discography

Frank Corsaro productions
  • Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
  • Professor of philosophy, The Would-Be Gentleman, Cherry Lane Theatre, NewYork City, 1949.
  • Tapster and Petruchio's servant, The Taming of the Shrew, City Center Theatre, New York City, 1951.
  • Dirty Joe, Mrs. McThing, American National Theatre and Academy Theatre, New York City, 1952.
  • Launcelot Gobbo, The Merchant of Venice, City Center Theatre, 1953.
  • FIRST STAGE WORK--Director, No Exit, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City,1947.
  • Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK; DIRECTOR
  • Family Reunion, Cherry Lane Theatre, 1947.
  • Creditors, Cherry Lane Theatre, 1949.
  • Heartbreak House, Bleecker Street Playhouse, New York City, 1950.
  • Naked, Provincetown Playhouse, New York City, 1950.
  • The Curtain Rises, Olney Theatre, Olney, MD, 1951.
  • Rain, Pocono Playhouse, Mountainhome, PA, 1951.
  • The Voice of the Turtle, For Love or Money, Legend of Sarah, and Holiday,all Rooftop Theatre, Atlanta, GA, 1951.
  • The Scarecrow, Theatre De Lys, New York City, 1953.
  • The Honeys, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1955.
  • A Hatful of Rain, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1955.
  • The Making of Moo, Rita Allen Theatre, New York City, 1958.
  • The Night Circus, John Golden Theatre, New York City, 1958.
  • The Night of the Iguana and The Tiny Closet, both Spoleto Festival of TwoWorlds, Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto, Italy, 1959.
  • A Piece of Blue Sky, Fort Lee Playhouse, Fort Lee, NJ, 1958, then Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT, 1959.
  • The Night of the Iguana, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Coconut Grove, FL, 1960, then Royale Theatre, New York City, 1961.
  • Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, 1961.
  • Baby Want a Kiss, Little Theatre, New York City, 1964.
  • The Sweet Enemy, Actors Playhouse, New York City, 1965.
  • Cold Storage, Lyceum Theatre, 1977.
  • Knockout, Helen Hayes Theatre, New York City, 1979.
  • Whoopee!, American National Theatre and Academy Theatre, New York City, 1979.
  • It's So Nice to Be Civilized, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1980.
  • Master Class, Roundabout Theatre, New York City, 1986.
  • Also directed Fitz and Biscuit, 1966.
  • Credits; DIRECTOR OF THE FOLLOWING OPERAS
  • Susannah, City Center Theatre, New York City, 1956, then Brussels World'sFair, Brussels, Belgium, 1958.
  • Angel of Fire, Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, Teatro Caio Melisso, 1959.
  • La Traviata, New York City Opera Company, State Theatre, New York City, 1966.
  • Madama Butterfly, New York City Opera Company, State Theatre, 1967.
  • Cavalleria rusticana, I Pagliacci, The Crucible, Carry Nation, and Faust,all New York City Opera Company, State Theatre, 1968.
  • Rigoletto and Prince Igor, both New York City Opera Company, State Theatre, 1969.
  • Pelleas et Melisande and The Makropoulos Case, both New York City Opera Company, State Theatre, 1970.
  • Of Mice and Men, Seattle Opera Company, Seattle, WA, 1970.
  • Hugh the Drover, Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX, 1970.
  • Koanga, Opera Society of Washington, Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 1970.
  • Summer and Smoke, St. Paul Opera Company, St. Paul, MN, 1971.
  • A Village Romeo and Juliet, Opera Society of Washington, Opera House, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1972.
  • Summer and Smoke and Don Giovanni, both New York City Opera Company, State Theatre, 1972.
  • L'Histoire du soldat and Lulu, both Houston Grand Opera, 1973.
  • Cervantes, American Opera Company, Washington, DC, 1973.
  • L'Incoronazione di Poppea (also known as The Coronation of Poppea), OperaSociety of Washington, Opera House, 1973.
  • La Boheme, Municipal Opera, Atlanta, GA, 1973.
  • Impresario and Prima la musica, both Caramoor Music Festival, Katonah, NY, 1974.
  • The Sea Gull, Houston Grand Opera, 1974.
  • Medea and Manon Lescaut, both New York City Opera Company, State Theatre,1974.
  • Die Tote Stadt, New York City Opera Company, State Theatre, 1975.
  • Rinaldo, Houston Grand Opera, 1975.
  • L'Ormindo, Caramoor Music Festival, 1975.
  • Treemonisha, Uris Theatre, New York City, 1975.
  • La Fanciulla del West, Deutches Oper, Berlin, Germany, 1983.
  • Rinaldo, Metropolitan Opera Company, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, 1983.
  • Fennimore and Gerda, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1983.
  • Love for Three Oranges, Glyndebourne Festival, Glyndebourne, U.K., 1985.
  • Also Katerina Ismailova, 1965; The Flaming Angel, 1965; The Flower and Hawk, both Jacksonville, FL, 1972; at Glyndebourne Festival, U.K., 1982-85; Chicago Lyric Opera, Chicago, IL, 1984; Covent Garden, London, 1984; Metropolitan Opera House, 1984; Spitalfields Festival, London, 1985; Den Norske Opera, Oslo, Norway, 1985; and the Australian Opera, 1986.
  • Credits; MAJOR TOURS; DIRECTOR
  • Peter Pan, U.S. cities, 1951.
  • A Short Happy Life, U.S. cities, 1961.
  • FILM DEBUT--Marquess, Emperor Waltz, Paramount, 1948.
  • Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
  • Hector Jonas, Rachel, Rachel, Warner Brothers, 1968.
  • FIRST TELEVISION WORK--Stage director, "A Piece of Blue Sky," Play of theWeek, WNEW, 1960.
  • Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION WORK; ALL AS STAGE DIRECTOR EPISODIC
  • "On the Outskirts of Town," Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre, NBC, 1964.
  • Credits; SPECIALS
  • Treemonisha, PBS, 1986.
  • Also stage director for a broadcast of the opera Prince Igor from the Cincinnati Academy of Music, Cincinnati, OH, 1966.
  • Writings;STAGE
  • (Adaptor) Naked, Provincetown Playhouse, New York City, 1950.
  • A Piece of Blue Sky, Fort Lee Playhouse, Fort Lee, NJ, 1958.
  • (adaptor) L'Histoire du soldat (opera), Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX,1973, published by Belwin-Mills, 1975.
  • (adaptor) Love for Three Oranges (opera), Glyndebourne Festival, Glyndebourne, U.K., 1985.
  • (adaptor) Where the Wild Things Are, Higgeldy Piggelby Pop (opera), Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles, CA, then Netherlanders Opera, Amsterdam, Netherlands, later Montreal Opera, Montreal, PQ, Canada, all 1986.
  • Also libretto, Before Breakfast, published by Belwin-Mills.
  • Writings;OTHER
  • Maverick: A Director's Personal Experience in Opera and Theatre, Vanguard, 1978.