The Spanish Hour Composer Maurice Ravel Librettist Franc-Nohain Based On the novel by Franc-Nohain Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1945 Language French Creative/Crew Conductor Gaetano Merola Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Set Designer(s) Armando Agnini Cast Torquemada, aged owner of a clock shop Alessio De Paolis Concepción, his young wife Licia Albanese Gonzalve, her lover John Garris Don Inigo Gomez, a banker Salvatore Baccaloni Ramiro, a muleteer Mack Harrell Show Dates Thu, Nov 1 1945, 8pm Time and Place Eighteenth Century; Toledo Legacy Commission Part I of a double bill, with "Salome" Notes Settings of "L'Heure Espagnole" designed by Armando Agnini and constructed in the studios of the San Francisco Opera Association