Composer Arrigo Boito Librettist Arrigo Boito Based On the epic drama Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1952 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Fausto Cleva Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Choreographer Willam Christensen Settings designed by Armando Agnini Settings painted by Eugene Dunkel Cast Mefistofele Nicola Rossi-Lemeni Faust Ferruccio Tagliavini Margherita Bidú Sayão Marta Thelma Votipka Wagner Virginio Assandri Elena Jean Fenn Pantalis Margaret Roggero Nereo Caesar Curzi Show Dates Tue, Oct 28 1952, 8pm Time and Place Sixteenth Century; Germany and Greece Scenes Act I, Scene 1 -- The Regions of Space Scene 2 -- A Square in Frankfort, Easter Sunday Scene 3 -- Faust's Studio Act II, Scene 1 -- Margherita's Garden Scene 2 -- Summit of the Brocken Act III -- A Prison Act IV -- Shores of the River Peneus in Greece Epilogue -- Faust's Studio Notes Corps de Ballet Boys selected from San Francisco Boys Chorus The curtain time is a guess; records preserved everything but those.