Zane Gothberg made 28 saves for North Dakota, and Carsen Chubak stopped 41 shots for Niagara.
Yet Mr Carsen insists this exhibition is not simply the latest repackaging.
"From Tessa, Patrick learned a significant appreciation for the art of craft, of people who are really good at what they do in terms of making, " says Carsen.
WSJ: The Ecstasy of Influence | Innovator of the Year 2012 Design
But the show's designer, Robert Carsen, known primarily for his work in theater and opera, also wants the visitor to glean a sense of experiencing differing Bohemias for themselves.
Still, the final scene of the Dexter production, with the nuns facing their end like human beings rather than as Mr. Carsen's abstract, gesticulating saints, remains the more harrowing of the two.
"He's quite unusual in his world, " says Robert Carsen, the director for whom Kinmonth has designed at least a dozen operas (most notably a widely acclaimed and well-traveled production of Wagner's Ring Cycle).
WSJ: The Ecstasy of Influence | Innovator of the Year 2012 Design
Mr. Carsen's spellbinding production made Blanche's fear visual, using light, shadows and a large, menacing crowd that pressed toward the characters from the edges of the mostly empty stage (Michael Levine designed the set).
In the early scenes in the Carmelite convent, the crowd disappeared, but as the outside world began to intrude on Blanche's refuge and the nuns were threatened, expelled and finally condemned, Mr. Carsen brought it back.
Without losing sight of curator Sylvain Amic's conception of "Bohemias" as a serious new examination of an enduring and alluring idea, the show is also designed as with Mr. Carsen's previous "Marie Antoinette" at the Grand Palais to entertain.
" Carsen insists this is one of Kinmonth's greatest talents: "Often you want people to be wearing real clothes, not costumes, and when people are wearing 18th- or 19th-century dress, which doesn't feel contemporary to us, it's not as easy.
WSJ: The Ecstasy of Influence | Innovator of the Year 2012 Design
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