Street Scene

Composer Kurt Weill / Lyrics by Langston Hughes & Elmer Rice / Book by Elmer Rice

Central City Opera, Summer 2024 Festival

Role: Properties Supervisor

Directed & Choreographed by Daniel Pelzig

Conducted by Adam Turner

Scenic Design by David Harwell

Lighting Design by Abigail Hoke-Brady

Wig & Makeup Design by Ronell Oliveri

Properties Supervisor of Central City Opera’s Summer 2024 Festival

  • Supervised the properties department and run crew for the repertory festival of three operas: The Pirates of Penzance, La Fanciulla Del West, and Street Scene

  • 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

Shot of a singer falling with oranges on the front stoop of an apartment building in the opera “Street Scene”
Singers interacting and knitting in windows of dressed apartments in the opera “Street Scene”
A drunken father holding a flask outside a dressed apartment in the opera “Street Scene”
A daughter grieving her dead mother lying on a stretcher in the opera “Street Scene”

APARTMENT DRESSING

  • Dressed the set specifically so each apartment told the story of the family living there

  • Worked with the singers and director to establish what these items would be

  • Included curtains, wallpaper/paint/treatment, furniture, practicals and wall/set dressing

Music themed apartment dressing for the opera “Street Scene”
Books and history themed apartment dressing for the opera “Street Scene”
Religious and family themed apartment dressing for the opera “Street Scene”
Children and family themed apartment dressing for the opera “Street Scene”
Books and history themed apartment dressing for the opera “Street Scene”
Children and family themed apartment dressing for the opera “Street Scene”
Religious and family themed apartment dressing for the opera “Street Scene”
Music themed apartment dressing for the opera “Street Scene”
Graphic design of the tabloid newspaper prop for the opera “Street Scene,” created in photoshop

SELECTED PAPER PROP: Tabloid Newspaper

  • Designed & Created in Photoshop

The printed back page of the tabloid newspaper prop for the opera “Street Scene”
The printed front page of the tabloid newspaper prop for the opera “Street Scene”

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