In the second act of this opera, one character sings a tune from Gr?ry's Richard the Lion-Hearted after a masque featuring Daphnis, Chloe, and Plutus is presented at a masked ball.  After that Faithful Shepherdess intermezzo, the main character hides in a bedroom, revealing himself after the occupant sings a French song from her youth, "Je crains de lui parler la nuit."  The main character then sings the pleading refrain "Yesli, kogda-nibud znali," but the Countess is unmoved.  Prince Yeletski has his revenge when the main character fails to get the ace he expects in, 
In the second act of this opera, one character sings a tune from Gr?ry's Richard the Lion-Hearted after a masque featuring Daphnis, Chloe, and Plutus is presented at a masked ball.  After that Faithful Shepherdess intermezzo, the main character hides in a bedroom, revealing himself after the occupant sings a French song from her youth, "Je crains de lui parler la nuit."  The main character then sings the pleading refrain "Yesli, kogda-nibud znali," but the Countess is unmoved.  Prince Yeletski has his revenge when the main character fails to get the ace he expects in, FTP, this 1890 opera about a gambler named Herman, based on a story by Pushkin and composed by Tchaikovsky.
In the second act of this opera, one character sings a tune from Gr?ry's Richard the Lion-Hearted after a masque featuring Daphnis, Chloe, and Plutus is presented at a masked ball.  
The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame or Pikovaya Dama