Pelleas and Melisande Composer Claude Debussy Librettist Maurice Maeterlinck Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1938 Language French Creative/Crew Conductor Erich Leinsdorf Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Master William Tyroler Designer (see notes) Cast Arkel, King of Allemonde Louis D'Angelo Geneviève, his daughter-in-law Doris Doe Golaud, her elder son Carlton Gauld Pelléas, her younger son Georges Cathelat Mélisande Janine Micheau Yniold, son of Golaud Anne Jamison Le Medicin André Ferrier Show Dates Tue, Nov 8 1938, 8pm Time and Place Legendary Scenes Act I, Scene 1 -- A Forest Scene 2 -- A Room in the Castle Scene 3 -- Terrace outside the Castle Act II, Scene 1 -- A Well in the Park Scene 2 -- Golaud's Chamber Scene 3 -- A Grotto NO INTERMISSION BETWEEN ACTS II AND III Act III, Scene 1 -- A Tower of the Castle Scene 2 -- Vaults of the Castle Scene 3 -- Terrace outside the Vaults Scene 4 -- Same as Scene 1 NO INTERMISSION BETWEEN ACTS III AND IV Act IV, Scene 1 -- Same as Scene 2, Act II Scene 2 -- Same as Scene 1, Act I Act V -- Mélisande's Bedchamber Notes Scenery constructed in the studios of the San Francisco Opera Association after designs by Jane Berlandina and William Gaskin.