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BENOIS, Alexandre [Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua] (1

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[St. Petersburg: R. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1911]. 68 pp. Folio (300 x 240 mm). Illustrated in color by Alexandre Benois. Publisher's gilt stamped cream colored boards with original glassine wrappers (defectiive). Condition: hinges cracked, spine lightly tanned, corners bumped, slight toning to boards. Tchaikovsky's materpiece based on Pushkin's Pikovaya dama was Benois' favorite opera. Although he provided some of the décor for a 1903 production, it was not until May 1921 that Benois produced and adapted Modest Ilich Tchaikovsky's libretto and designed all the sets and the costumes for the State Theater for Opera and Ballet in Petrograd. These illustrations dating from a decade before obviously influenced the 1921 production.

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