Composer Richard Strauss Librettist Hedwig Lachmann Based On the play by Oscar Wilde Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1945 Language German Commission German translation by Hedwig Lachmann Creative/Crew Conductor Georges Sebastian Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Cast Salome, daughter of Herodias Lily Djanel Herod, Tetrarch of Judea Frederick Jagel Herodias Margaret Harshaw Jochanaan, the Prophet Herbert Janssen Narraboth, Captain of the Guard John Garris Page of Herodias Herta Glaz First Nazarene Lorenzo Alvary Second Nazarene Robin Nelson First Soldier George Cehanovsky Second Soldier Robert Mills First Jew George Tallone Second Jew Herbert Nystrom Third Jew Alessio De Paolis Fourth Jew Joseph Tissier Fifth Jew Charles Goodwin Slave Elma Heitman Cappadocian W. Vernon Sanders Henchman Leo Galt Show Dates Thu, Nov 1 1945, 8pm Time and Place A.D. 30; Tiberias in Galilee Scenes A Great Terrace of the Palace of Herod Legacy Commission Part II of a double bill, with "L'Heure Espagnole"