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 1952 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Pietro Cimara Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Choreographer Willam Christensen Cast Rigoletto, a hunchback, jester to the Duke Robert Weede Gilda, his daughter Lily Pons Duke of Mantua, a titled profligate Eugene Conley Sparafucile, a hired assassin Lorenzo Alvary Maddalena, his sister Claramae Turner Count Monterone Jan Gbur Count Ceprano Colin Harvey Borsa Alessio De Paolis Marullo George Cehanovsky Countess Ceprano Yvonne Chauveau Giovanna Eileen Baldwin Page Catherine Brubaker Show Dates Sat, Nov 1 1952, 2pm 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 The curtain time is a guess; records preserved everything but those.