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 1958 Language German Creative/Crew Conductor Leopold Ludwig Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Stage setting designed by Harry Horner Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Queen Klytemnestra Claramae Turner Aegistus, her paramour Sebastian Feiersinger Elektra, the Queen's elder daughter Christel Goltz Chrysothemis, her sister Lisa della Casa Orestes, the Queen's son Arnold van Mill Guardian of Orestes Mark Elyn Confidant Margot Blum Trainbearer Louise Oldt Young Servant Robert Thomas Old Servant Harold Enns Overseer of the Servants Cecilia Ward First Maidservant Alice Taylor Second Maidservant Frances Groves Third Maidservant Katherine Hilgenberg Fourth Maidservant Joan Marie Moynagh Fifth maidservant Ruth Daniel Show Dates Wed, Oct 29 1958, 8pm Time and Place Antiquity; Greece after the Trojan War Scenes Court of the palace at Mycenae Legacy Commission Part II of a double bill, with "Gianni Schicchi"