This part of Chapter 15 was cut when the novel was first published in 1966. Originally, Ivanovich has a dream after he receives an injection of Stravinsky's prescription. As he falls asleep, he hears a low tenor singing Tchaikovsky's opera, Queen of Spades. The opera was dedicated to the composer's brother, Modest Tchaikovsky, and it is based on a short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin.
The lights went out, there was darkness for a while, and in it a nervous tenor was heard singing from far away: "There great heaps of gold do shine, and all those heaps of gold are mine..."
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