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 1943 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Pietro Cimara Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Cast Rigoletto, a hunchback, jester to the Duke John Charles Thomas Gilda, his daughter Lily Pons Duke of Mantua, a titled profligate Jan Peerce Sparafucile, a hired assassin Roberto Silva Maddalena, his sister Christine Johnson Count Monterone George London Count Ceprano Edward Wellman Borsa Alessio De Paolis Marullo George Cehanovsky Countess Ceprano Mary Helen Markham Giovanna Thelma Votipka Page Kathleen Lawlor Show Dates Fri, Nov 5 1943, 8pm Time and Place Sixteenth Century; Mantua and Vicinity Scenes Act I -- Ballroom in the Duke's Palace Act II -- A 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 George Burnson (Count Monterone) later changed his name to -- George London. The curtain time is a guess; touring records include evering but the starting times.