In 1869, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky provided recitatives to replace the spoken dialogue for a proposed production of Le domino noir by an Italian opera company visiting Russia.

There was a production of the opera by Pierre Jourdan at the Théâtre Imperial at Compiègne in 1995 and an other at the Opéra Comique at Paris in 2018, with Anne-Catherine Gillet and Cyrille Dubois.

Enjoying her last freedom before taking final vows, Angèle slips out of the Ursuline convent along with her companion Brigitte to attend a ball in honour of the Queen of Spain's birthday.

But Angèle is inadvertently freed by the housekeeper's lover, the drunken Gil Perez, who opens the door and runs off, having mistaken her for a demon in her mask and cloak.

Shortly before the ceremony, a letter from the queen frees her from her vows, which allows her to marry Horace, and Ursule, her jealous rival for the office, to the chagrin of other nuns, is named the new abbess instead.