The Duke's music is a delight, but COT's 'Queenie Pie' is flawed as drama
OPERA REVIEW: 'Queenie Pie' at the Harris Theater ★★★ OPERA REVIEW: 'Queenie Pie' at the Harris Theater ★★★Duke Ellington died in 1974, the same year that the city's second opera company, Chicago Opera Theater, was founded. That neat historical coincidence is marked by the new production of the great American composer and bandleader's only opera, "Queenie Pie," which opened COT's …