63, is an unfinished opera, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1941/42 to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Gamblers (1842).

He realised when arriving at the end of the first act that the opera would become too long and unwieldy, and also that its mocking text and the bitter irony of the music would not be performed under the repressive regime at the time.

[4] The opera was completed in 1981 by the Polish composer Krzysztof Meyer as Die Spieler,[7] arriving at a duration of about two hours.

[1][6] This version was first recorded in 1995 by the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, conducted by Michail Jurowski, with an all-Russian cast from the Bolshoi Theatre, singing in Russian led by tenor Vladimir Bogachov [ru].

With the two others, he leaves for "urgent business", passing the bill to Icharjev, who pays 80,000 rubles in cash.

After they have left, Alexander Glov informs him that they all are members of a gang of card sharps who outwitted Icharjev.