The Barber of Seville Composer Gioachino Rossini Librettist Cesare Sterbini Based On the comedic play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1941 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Gaetano Merola Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Master Giacomo Spadoni Cast Count Almaviva Franco Perulli Figaro, the Barber of Seville Lawrence Tibbett Doctor Bartolo, a physician Salvatore Baccaloni Rosina, his ward Bidú Sayão Don Basilio, a music master Ezio Pinza Berta, Rosina's governess Irra Petina Fiorello, servant to the Count George Cehanovsky Officer Anthony Marlowe Show Dates Sat, Nov 8 1941, 8:15pm Time and Place Seventeenth century; Seville Scenes Act I -- A Street in Seville, Early Morning Act II -- A Room in Doctor Bartolo's House Act III -- The Same Notes Program note: The number sung by Bidù Sayao in the lesson scene Act II is "L'Inutil Precauzione," Arietta by Pietro Cimara.