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 1954 Language German Commission German translation by Hedwig Lachmann Creative/Crew Conductor Eugen Szenkar Stage Director(s) Paul Hager G.K.P. Projection System by Paul Planer Setting by Harry Horner Paul Hager Technical supervision Thomas L. Colangelo, Jr. Cast Salome, daughter of Herodias Inge Borkh Herod, Tetrarch of Judea Charles Kullman Herodias Claramae Turner Jochanaan, the Prophet Alexander Welitsch Narraboth, Captain of the Guard Brian Sullivan Page of Herodias Rosalind Nadell First Nazarene Desire Ligeti Second Nazarene Winther Andersen First Soldier George Cehanovsky Second Soldier Carl Palangi Cappadocian Harold Enns First Jew Caesar Curzi Second Jew Virginio Assandri Third Jew Alessio De Paolis Fourth Jew Lawrence Mason Fifth Jew Colin Harvey Slave Eileen Scott Show Dates Tue, Oct 26 1954, 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 "The Portuguese Inn" Notes The curtain time is a guess; records preserved everything but those.