"Street Scene" an opera in two acts by Elmer Rice from 1946, based on his play by the same name. Lyrics were written by Langston Hughes.

The story is set to one day in the life of a New York apartment building where Anna Maurrant lives with her family. She is worried about her teenage daughter Rose, frustrated by her husband and she is also having an affair with the milkman. Her daughter Rose, on the other hand, is frustrated by her parents' unhappiness and aspires to better things.

When Frank Maurrant learns of his wife Anna's affair with the milkman, he murders her. Rose together with her boyfriend, Sam Kaplan, then leaves the tenement behind to make a new, independent life for herself.