The Magic Flute Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Librettists Emanuel Schikaneder and Karl Ludwig Gieseke Based On the play by Antonio García Gutiérrez Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1950 Language English Creative/Crew Conductor Paul Breisach Stage Director(s) William Wymetal Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Technical Director Armando Agnini Settings designed by Armando Agnini Eugene Dunkel Cast Sarastro, High Priest of Isis Dezso Ernster Tamino, an Egyptian Prince James Schwabacher Papageno, a bird catcher John Brownlee Queen of the Night Sari Barabas Pamina, her daughter Uta Graf Monostatos, a Moor, servant of Sarastro Hubert Norville Papagena Geraldine Williams First Lady Barbara Lauppe Second Lad Yvonne Chauveau Third Lady Claramae Turner First Youth Jo Ann O'Connell Second Youth Bettie Sanderson Third Youth Eileen Baldwin Speaker Yi-Kwei Sze First Priest John Ford Second Priest Caesar Curzi First Man in Armor Caesar Curzi Second Man in Armor Desire Ligeti First Slave Colin Harvey Second Slave William Bond Third Slave Allan Louw Show Dates Fri, Nov 10 1950, 8pm Time and Place Sbout Time of Rameses I; Memphis, Egypt Scenes Act I, Scene 1 -- A Rocky Landscape Scene 2 -- A Room in Sarastro's Castle Scene 3 -- Before the Three Temples Scene 4 -- Grove Outside the Temple Act II, Scene 1 -- A Palm Grove Scene 2 -- Courtyard of the Temple Scene 3 -- A Garden Scene 4 -- A Short Hallway Act III, Scene 1 -- Same as Scene 4, Act I Scene 2 -- Palm Garden with Tree Scene 3 -- Rocky Caves Scene 4 -- Temple of the Sun Legacy Commission English version by Ruth and Thomas Martin Notes Settings painted by Eugene Dunkel and constructed in the Studios of the San Francisco Opera Association