Composer Richard Strauss Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Music Center Pavilion Season 1965 Language German, English Creative/Crew Conductor Horst Stein Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Designer George Jenkins Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Music Master Chester Ludgin Majordomo Scott Beach Lackey David Giosso Officer James Eitze Composer Helen Vanni Tenor (Bacchus) Jess Thomas Wigmaker Howard Fried Zerbinetta Reri Grist Prima Donna (Ariadne) Hildegard Hillebrecht Dancing Master William Whitesides Naiad Jolanda Meneguzzer Dryad Annamaria Bessel Echo Gwen Curatilo Arlecchino Richard Fredricks Brighella Alexander Young Truffaldino John West Scaramuccio Raymond Manton Show Dates Fri, Nov 19 1965, 8pm Time and Place (see below) Scenes PROLOGUE: The Viennese home of a nouveau riche gentleman; eighteenth century THE OPERA: Ariadne's cave on the Island of Naxos; antiquity Legacy Commission English translation of the prologue by Leopold Sachse Notes The prologue is performed in English; the opera in German