The Wise Maiden Composer Carl Orff Based On the story Die Kluge Bauerntochter from Grimms' Fairy Tales Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1958 Language English Commission English translation by Otto Guth and Jane Mayhall Creative/Crew Conductor Leopold Ludwig Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Stage setting and costumes by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Supervising designer Waldemar Johansen Puppets executed by Ralph Cheese Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast King Lawrence Winters Peasant Lorenzo Alvary Peasant's Daughter Leontyne Price Jailer James Wagner Man with a donkey Raymond Manton Man with a mule Eugene Green First tramp Robert Thomas Second tramp John Gillaspy Third tramp Richard Wentworth Show Dates Tue, Oct 28 1958, 8pm Time and Place In a Fairy-Tale Kingdom Legacy Commission Part I of a double bill, with "Carmina Burana" Notes New Production