Composer Giuseppe Verdi Librettist Francesco Maria Piave Based On the play "Le Roi s'amuse" by Victor Hugo Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1939 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Gennaro Papi Stage Director(s) Herbert Graf Chorus Master William Tyroler Incidental Dance, Act I, arranged by Willam Christensen Cast Rigoletto, a hunchback, jester to the Duke Lawrence Tibbett Gilda, his daughter Lily Pons Duke of Mantua, a titled profligate Frederick Jagel Sparafucile, a hired assassin Norman Cordon Maddalena, his sister Sandra Gahle Count Monterone Charles Shiffeler Count Ceprano Edward Wellman Borsa Ludovico Oliviero Marullo George Cehanovsky Countess Ceprano Laurran Chinn Giovanna Thelma Votipka Page Kathleen Lawlor Show Dates Mon, Nov 6 1939, 8:15pm Time and Place Sixteenth century; Mantua and vicinity Scenes Act I -- Ballroom in the Duke's Palace Act II -- Street outside Rigoletto's house Act III -- Hall in the Duke's Palace Act IV -- Ruined Inn in a Lonely Spot -- Sparafucile's Home Notes Corps de Ballet