The Marriage of Figaro Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte Based On the comedy by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1950 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Jonel Perlea Stage Director(s) William Wymetal Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Technical Director Armando Agnini Cast Figaro, the Barber, valet of the Count Italo Tajo Count Almaviva, a Spanish noble John Brownlee Countess Almaviva, his wife Florence Quartararo Susanna, Maid to the Countess Bidú Sayão Cherubino, page to the Countess Dorothy Warenskjold Marcellina, servant to Bartolo Claramae Turner Barbarina, Basilio's cousin Yvonne Chauveau Doctor Bartolo, rejected lover of Susanna Salvatore Baccaloni Antonio, a gardener George Cehanovsky Don Basilio, a busy-body Alessio De Paolis Don Curzio, a Judge Hubert Norville First Peasant Girl Sherrill Lanyon Second Peasant Girl Catherine Brubaker Show Dates Fri, Nov 3 1950, 8pm Time and Place Seventeenth Century; near Seville Scenes Act I -- Unused Room in the Chateau of Count Almaviva Act II -- Apartment of the Countess Act III -- Throne Room in the Chateau Act IV -- Garden of the Chateau Notes Corps de Ballet