Composer Charles Gounod Librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carré Based On the epic drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1962 Language French Creative/Crew Conductor Oliviero De Fabritiis Production Tito Capobianco Sets by Marciano Longarini Edward Locke Gallagher Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Choreographer Lew Christensen Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Faust, a philosopher Albert Lance Méphistophélès Giorgio Tozzi Wagner, a student Donald Drain Siebel, a youth in love with Marguerite Kerstin Meyer Valentin, Marguerite's brother Thomas Stewart Thomas Tipton(11/11) Marguérite Mary Costa Marthe Schwertlein, her neighbor and companion Dorothy Cole Show Dates Sat, Nov 3 1962, 8pm Sun, Nov 11 1962, 3pm Time and Place Sixteenth century; Germany Scenes PROLOGUE -- Faust's study Act I -- A public square Act II -- Marguerite's garden Act III, Scene 1 -- A street Scene 2 -- A church Scene 3 -- A prison Notes Corps de Ballet Major intermission after Act II