Composer Igor Stravinsky Librettists W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1962 Language English Creative/Crew Conductor Leopold Ludwig Production Paul Hager Designer Wolfram Skalicki Resident designer Thomas L. Colangelo, Jr. Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Cast Tom Rakewell Richard Lewis Anne Trulove Mary Costa Father Trulove John Macurdy Nick Shadow Thomas Tipton Mother Goose Sona Cervena Baba the Turk Kerstin Meyer Sellem, an auctioneer Howard Fried Warden at Bedlam Donald Drain Show Dates Mon, Oct 29 1962, 8pm Time and Place Eighteenth-century England Scenes Act I, Scene 1 -- The garden of Trulove's country house Scene 2 -- Mother Goose's London brothel Scene 3 -- Same as Scene 1 Act II, Scene 1 -- Rakewell's London town house Scene 2 -- Street in front of Rakewell's town house Scene 3 -- Rakewell's London town house Scene 4 -- The auction in the town house Act III, Scene 1 -- A graveyard Scene 2 -- Bedlam Epilogue Notes Sets and costumes from the Graz Festival Major intermission after Act II