Queenie Pie: Opera Review
Duke Ellington's opera of intraracial satire is staged in Long Beach.An opera by Duke Ellington? Well, almost, sort of. Like many of the Master’s creations, tunes and notions for Queenie Pie had been marinating in his well-traveled trunk for an extended period until public broadcasting commissioned the project in 1970 as a one-hour television opera. After funding dried up, Ellington worked on expanding it to a …