The Cloak Composer Giacomo Puccini Librettist Giuseppe Adami Based On Didier Gold's La Houppelande Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1954 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Glauco Curiel Stage Director(s) Carlo Piccinato Chorus Director Leo Mueller Cast Michele, a barge owner Robert Weede Giorgetta, his wife Carla Martinis Luigi, her lover Roberto Turrini Il Tinca Virginio Assandri Il Talpa Nicola Moscona La Frugola, Talpa's wife Claramae Turner Vendor of Songs Caesar Curzi First Lover Sharon Currier Second Lover William Petersen First Voice Lydia Ring Second Voice Harold White Show Dates Wed, Oct 27 1954, 8pm Time and Place The Present; Banks of the Seine Legacy Commission Part I of a double bill, with "Joan of Arc at the Stake" Notes The curtain time is a guess; records preserved everything but those.