Queenie Pie

Queenie Pie
Unfinished opera by Duke Ellington
Composer Duke Ellington in 1973
Librettist	George C. Wolf
Language	English

Queenie Pie is an unfinished opera by American jazz musician Duke Ellington. It tells a story of a Harlem beautician named Queenie Pie. Ellington referred to the opera as "opera comique", and worked on it from the 1930s until his death in 1974. The opera was later staged in 1986, but the arrangements were lost. In 2007 musician Marc Bolin recreated the opera that was staged in the Oakland Opera Theater.