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 Pasadena, CA Venue Pasadena Civic Auditorium Season 1941 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Gennaro Papi Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Master Giacomo Spadoni Incidental Dances Arranged by Willam Christensen Cast Rigoletto, a hunchback, jester to the Duke Lawrence Tibbett Gilda, his daughter Bidú Sayão Duke of Mantua, a titled profligate Jan Peerce Sparafucile, a hired assassin Lorenzo Alvary Maddalena, his sister Irra Petina Count Monterone Jerome Hines Count Ceprano Edward Wellman Borsa Anthony Marlowe Marullo George Cehanovsky Countess Ceprano Mary Helen Markham Giovanna Thelma Votipka Page Kathleen Lawlor Show Dates Wed, Nov 5 1941, 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 The curtain time is a guess; touring records include evering but the starting times.