The Clowns Composer Ruggero Leoncavallo Librettist Ruggero Leoncavallo Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Sacramento, CA Venue Sacramento Memorial Auditorium Season 1948 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Pietro Cimara Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Cast Canio (Punchinello), master of the troupe Raoul Jobin Nedda (Columbine), his wife Licia Albanese Tonio (Taddeo), the clown Robert Weede Beppe (Harlequin) Leslie Chabay Silvio, a Villager George Cehanovsky First Villager Norman Benson Second Villager Caesar Curzi Show Dates Sat, Sep 25 1948, 8pm Time and Place Fest of Assumption at Calabria, near Montalto Scenes Act I -- Afternoon Act II -- Evening Notes Part II of a double bill, with "Cavalleria Rusticana" The curtain time is a guess; records didn't include that piece of information.