The Valkyrie Composer Richard Wagner Librettist Richard Wagner Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1939 Language German Creative/Crew Conductor Erich Leinsdorf Stage Director(s) Herbert Graf Cast Brünnhilde Kirsten Flagstad Sieglinde Marjorie Lawrence Fricka Kathryn Meisle Siegmund Lauritz Melchior Wotan Julius Huehn Hunding Norman Cordon Helmwige Marion Sharpe Gerhilde Thelma Votipka Ortlinde Olive Ponitz Siegrune Mona Paulee Rossweisse Sue Belle Browne Waltraute Herta Glaz Grimgerde Alice Avakian Schwertleite Dorothy Cornish Show Dates Tue, Nov 7 1939, 7:45pm Time and Place Legendary Scenes Act I -- Interior of Hunding's Hut in the Forest Act II -- A Wild and Rocky Pass Act III -- Rock of the Valkyries