Composer
Librettist
Based On
the play by Sophocles
Company
San Francisco Opera Association Touring
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Venue
Shrine Auditorium
Season
1953
Language
German
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Set Designer(s)
Settings painted by
Chorus Director
Cast
Queen Klytemnestra
Aegisthus, her paramour
Elektra, the Queen's elder daughter
Chrysothemis, her sister
Orestes, the Queen's son
Guardian of Orestes
Confidant
Trainbearer
Young Servant
Old Servant
Overseer of the Servants
First Maidservant
Second Maidservant
Third Maidservant
Fourth Maidservant
Fifth maidservant
Show Dates
Time and Place
Antiquity; Greece
Scenes
Scene -- Court of the Palace
Notes
The Company General Director Gaetano Merola died on August 20th, while conducting
Butterfly's "Un bel dì" in San Francisco's Stern Grove. The entire 1953 season
was labeled "Gaetano Merola, 1879-1953 -- In Memoriam."
The curtain time is a guess; records preserved everything but those.