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Opera review: 'Queenie Pie' picks up where Duke Ellington left off by Mark Swed

Long Beach Opera makes the most ambitious effort yet on a Duke Ellington opera-in-the-making, and it has an electrifying cast to work with.Did Duke Ellington want to write an opera? Absolutely. He was working on "Queenie Pie" when he died in 1974.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AM on January 28, 2014

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