Composer Richard Strauss Librettists Clemens Krauss and Richard Strauss Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1963 Language German Creative/Crew Conductor Georges Prêtre Production Paul Hager Designer Leni Bauer-Ecsy Thomas L. Colangelo, Jr.(resident designer) Choreography Ghita Hager Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Flamand, a musician Cesare Valletti Olivier, a poet Hermann Prey La Roche, Director of a theater Leonardo Wolovsky Countess Elisabeth Schwarzkopf The Count, her brother Thomas Stewart Clairon, an actress Sona Cervena Young Ballerina Cynthia Gregory Partner of the ballerina Robert Gladstein Dancer(s) Geralyn Donald Eloise Tjomsland David Anderson Lee Fuller Italian Singer Jolanda Meneguzzer Glade Peterson Majordomo Peter van der Bilt Servant Russell Christopher James Eitze Roy Glover Colin Harvey Joshua Hecht Raymond Manton Daniel McCaughna Richard Riffel Monsieur Taupe, the prompter Howard Fried Musician Philip Eisenberg Karl Hesse Nathan Rubin Show Dates Wed, Nov 6 1963, 8pm Time and Place A castle near Paris; about 1775, at the time Gluck was beginning his reform of operatic theory Notes Proper credit: A conversation piece with music in two parts Intermission after Part One