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 San Diego, CA Venue San Diego Fox Theatre Season 1958 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Kurt Herbert Adler Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Chorus Director Gianni Lazzari Choreographer Eugene Loring Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Count Almaviva Giuseppe Modesti Countess Almaviva Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Susanna, Maid to the Countess Eugenia Ratti Figaro, valet to the Count Rolando Panerai Cherubino, page to the Count Cecilia Ward Doctor Bartolo Richard Wentworth Marcellina, Bartolo's housekeeper Katherine Hilgenberg Don Basilio, a music master Howard Fried Antonio, a gardener Eugene Green Barbarina, his daughter Joan Marie Moynagh Don Curzio, a Judge Raymond Manton First Peasant Girl Louise Oldt Second Peasant Girl Margot Blum Show Dates Thu, Oct 30 1958, 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 Presented by the San Diego Opera Guild Corps de Ballet Major intermission after Act II