The Knock

Composer Aleksandra Vrebalov / Librettist Deborah Brevoort

Central City Opera, Summer 2025 Festival

Role: Properties Supervisor

Directed by Alison Moritz

Conducted by David Bloom

Scenic Design by Lawrence E. Moten III

Costume Design by Trevor Bowen

Lighting Design by Abigail Hoke-Brady

Wig & Makeup Design by Candace Leyland

Properties Supervisor of Central City Opera’s Summer 2025 Festival

  • Supervised the properties department and run crew for the repertory festival of three operas: The Barber of Seville, The Knock, and Once Upon a Mattress

  • Worked closely with the scenic designers and directors of each opera to research, source, design, and create all of the props for each opera

  • Created all properties lists, budget documents, and archival documents

  • Organized the rental of props for The Barber of Seville

Wide-shot of the set showing all set dressing in the three houses for the opera “The Knock”
The car and entry parlor onstage for the opera “The Knock”
A discussion over a kitchen table in the opera “The Knock”
A child reading in an armchair with his mother in the opera “The Knock”
An uniformed officer entering the parlor during the opera “The Knock”
A spotlit shot of the car in the opera “The Knock”
An army man standing downstage of a house in the opera “The Knock”
Characters holding a baby and reading to a small child in the opera “The Knock”
A wide-shot of the house moved and redressed to be one continuous house in the opera “The Knock”

SELECTED BUILD: The Car

Worked with the set designer to design and create a minimal car onstage that could be rolled on and off. Used a CNC to cut out the grill and head light details and created two wagons using a sourced bus seat and steering wheel.

Drafting of the designed and built car for the opera “The Knock,” drafted in Vectorworks

Original drafting of a single wagon idea:

Drafting of the designed and built car for the opera “The Knock,” drafted in Vectorworks

Full Car Drafting Package

  • Vectorworks

Backstage photo of the back platform of the car for the opera “The Knock”

The Final Car

Backstage photo of the front platform of the car for the opera “The Knock”
Show photo of the car being “driven” onstage during the opera “The Knock”

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