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Menotti, who naturally likes his new success but also fears it, tells his friends that he thinks it would be good for his soul if his next opera were a flop. He is giving himself plenty of chance to compose one. NBC has commissioned an opera for television, to be called Irene and the Gypsies. He is also thinking about two more three-acters, tentatively called The Leper and The Saint of Bleecker Street—for Broadway.