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 1953 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Fausto Cleva Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Choreography by Willam Christensen Setting designed by Armando Agnini Settings painted by Eugene Dunkel Cast Mefistofele Nicola Rossi-Lemeni Faust Jan Peerce Margherita Licia Albanese Marta June Wilkins Wagner Virginio Assandri Elena Beverly Sills Pantalis Margaret Roggero Nereo Caesar Curzi Show Dates Mon, Oct 19 1953, 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 Study Notes Boys selected from San Francisco Boys Chorus Corps de Ballet The curtain time is a guess; records preserved everything but those.