Il Trittico Composer Giacomo Puccini Librettist Giovacchino Forzano Based On an incident mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1952 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Karl Kritz Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Cast Gianni Schicchi Italo Tajo Lauretta, his daughter Dorothy Warenskjold La Vecchia, Buoso's cousin Claramae Turner Rinuccio, her nephew Eugene Conley Gherardo, Buoso's nephew Alessio De Paolis Nella, his wife Nelda Scarsella Gherardino, their son Michael Kersnar Betto, cousin to Buoso George Cehanovsky Simone, cousin to Buoso Lorenzo Alvary Marco, his son Jan Gbur La Ciesca, Marco's wife Thelma Votipka Spinelloccio, a physician Allan Louw Amantio di Nicolao, a notary Desire Ligeti Pinellino, a shoemaker Colin Harvey Guccio, a dyer Winther Andersen Show Dates Fri, Oct 31 1952, 8pm Time and Place 1299 in Florence, Italy, in the bed-chamber of Buoso Donati Legacy Commission Part III of the complete "Trittico" Notes The curtain time is a guess; records preserved everything but those.