Composer Richard Strauss Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal Based On the play by Sophocles Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1938 Language German Creative/Crew Conductor Fritz Reiner Stage Director(s) Herbert Graf Chorus Master William Tyroler Cast Queen Klytemnestra Kerstin Thorborg Aegisthus, her paramour Karl Laufkötter Elektra, the Queen's elder daughter Rose Pauly Chrysothemis, her sister Irene Jessner Orestes, the Queen's son Julius Huehn Foster Father of Orestes Norman Cordon Confidant Mary Helen Markham Trainbearer Kathleen Lawlor Young Servant Hans Clemens Old Servant Malcolm Youngs Overseer of the Servants Olive Ponitz First Serving Woman Doris Doe Second Serving Woman Lina Kroph Third Serving Woman Alice Avakian Fourth Serving Woman Thelma Votipka Fifth Serving Woman Dorothy Cornish Show Dates Thu, Nov 10 1938, 9pm Time and Place Antiquity; Greece Scenes Court of the Palace