In this work we examine the barriers between the design praxis and scenography production, based on the scenic production of opera. Both the design praxis and the scenography production are defended here as forms of labor, which means that these practices are analyzed on the lens of Marx fundamental category, where labor operates as the constitutional basis of social life and humankind. This also means that both these praxes are submitted to the transformations and contradictions that characterize the labor category in the bourgeois society. Especially that of the industrial division of labor and its consecutive estrangement, so as it s impacts on cultural production and social life. The concept of bourgeois society defended in this work is that of a spectacular society, where cultural production is the result of a constant growing domination of economic capital value over cultural capital value. Here, the praxis of design is comprehended as the result of such division of labor, as presented above, where its function resides in reorganizing the industrial production in order to subdue it, to this new social demands, by the managing of its estragemented production and by constantly configuring new forms of symbolic differentiation and exchange values. Opera is presented here as a social product of Modern Period culture, and its social function residing in the organization of the lyric theatre, an important social space for the occidental elites in that period, a space that was commodified and transformed into cultural merchandise with the bourgeois society. The scenographic production is also presented as an artisanal and not estragemented labor practice in its origin, and sees its transformation with the appearance of the modern cenic direction, and the set designer. A labour practice that also resides in symbolic differentiation and commodified configuration. It concludes that both praxis of design and scenography production, although distinct, shares a common moment in history due to both submission to the estrangement phenomenon and its social impacts.