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 1954 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Karl Kritz Stage Director(s) Carlo Piccinato Chorus Director Leo Mueller Cast Rigoletto, jester to the Duke Leonard Warren Gilda, his daughter Mado Robin Duke of Mantua Jan Peerce Sparafucile Nicola Moscona Maddalena, his sister Claramae Turner Count Monterone Carl Palangi Count Ceprano Colin Harvey Countess Ceprano Marilynn Hall Borsa Alessio De Paolis Marullo George Cehanovsky Giovanna Elinor Warren Page Sharon Currier Show Dates Fri, Oct 22 1954, 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 -- A Desolate Inn -- Sparafucile's Home Notes Corps de Ballet The curtain time is a guess; records preserved everything but those.