Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich: Pique Dame

Pique Dame by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cast: V. Atlantov, V. Valaitis, A. Fedosseev, V. Levko, T. Milachkina & G. Borisova,  Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, conducted by Mark Ermler
Label: Le Chant du Monde / Melodiya
Catalogue number: LDX 78022
Country of Issue: France
Date: 1978
Stereo
Format: LP Boxed Set (3 discs plus booklet)
Label design: original Melodiya red label, black print
Discs: Near Mint, unmarked
Outer box: Excellent,  light scuffs on bottom edge and very small marks on front andside.
Inner sleeves: new antistatic inners provided,  original plan paper sleeves also included.
Booklet: full size 12pp, perfect (plain black print on white).

This item appears as new throughout except as mentioned above. Acquired by us in 2007 as part of a large collection but never played since.

This Moscow production is in French and this is a relatively rare item nowadays,  being volume 22 of the Chant du Monde series. The opera is known in French as La Dame de Pique and in English as either Pique Dame or The Queen of Spades.