Sergei Prokofiev's little comic opera, The Duenna,* almost got lost in the shuffle. Finished in 1940, it had reached the dress rehearsal stage in Moscow when the war put a stop to it. After the war, it was put on in Leningrad and Prague, but the score was still in manuscript.
Last week, Manhattan opera fans were given a pretty good idea of what The Duenna is all about. Greenwich Village's aggressive little Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8) had acquired two vocal scores from which it squeezed out an arrangement for two pianos and a full complement of 19 singers.
Prokofiev based his...
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