Composer Amilcare Ponchielli Librettist Arrigo Boito Based On the play "Angelo, Tyran de Padoue" by Victor Hugo Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Sacramento, CA Venue Sacramento Memorial Auditorium Season 1967 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Giuseppe Patanè Stage Director(s) Lotfi Mansouri Designer Eugene Dunkel Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Choreographer Thomas Andrew Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Barnaba Chester Ludgin La Gioconda Leyla Gencer La Cieca Maureen Forrester Zuàne Allan Monk Isèpo L. D. Clements Enzo Grimaldo Renato Cioni Laura Adorno Grace Bumbry Alvise Badoero Ara Berberian Monk Clifford Grant Steersman Richard Styles First singer John Beauchamp Second singer William Booth Voice Jonathan Huie Eugene Lawrence Solo Dancer(s) Sandra Balestracci David Coll Diana Marks Joan de Vere Show Dates Sun, Sep 24 1967, 7:30pm Time and Place Seventeenth century Venice Scenes Act I -- Courtyard of the ducal palace Act II -- A lagoon near Venice Act III, Scene 1 -- A room in Alvise's palace Scene 2 -- Great hall in the Ca d'Oro Act IV -- A ruined palace on the island of Giudecca Notes Corps de Ballet San Francisco Opera Boys Chorus Madi Bacon, Director