The Golden Cockerel Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Librettist Vladimir Bielsky Based On Bielsky's text, after Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem, The Tale of the Golden Cockerel Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1938 Language French Commission Engl. version by Edward Agate, revised by Emanuel Young Creative/Crew Conductor Gennaro Papi Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Master William Tyroler Designer Nicholas Remisoff Costumers Goldstein & Co. Incidental Dances created by Willam Christensen Cast Queen of Shémaka Lily Pons King Dodon Ezio Pinza Astrologer Nicholas Massue General Polkan Norman Cordon Amelfa Doris Doe Voice of the Golden Cockerel Thelma Votipka Show Dates Fri, Nov 11 1938, 8:30pm Time and Place A Fairy Tale Scenes Act I -- Palace of King Dodon Act II -- A Narrow Gorge in a Mountain Pass Act III -- Same as Act I Notes The French text is translated from the Russian by Edward Agate Scenery executed in the studio of the San Francisco Opera Association