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  the murder of Carmen by Don José

  the death of Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann

  the murder of Nedda in Pagliacci

  the death of the Goose Girl and the King's Son in Humperdinck's Königskinder;
   Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker, 1910.

  the death of Johannes in Kienzl's Der Evangelimann

  the death of Roméo in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

  the death of Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi

  the death of Valentin in Faust

  the death of Luigi, in Il Tabarro

  the death of Suor Angelica

  the death of Manon Lescaut

  the impending death of Liu in Turandot

  the death of Mimi in La Bohème

  the impending death of Madama Butterfly

  the death of Madama Butterfly

  the death of Madama Butterfly

  the stabbing of Scarpia, in Tosca

  the stabbing of Scarpia, in Tosca

  the stabbing of Scarpia, in Tosca

  the stabbing of Scarpia, in Tosca (photo courtesy of Ekaterina Allenova)

  the execution of Mario, in Tosca

  the death of Chatterton

  the death of Otello

  the death of Desdemona, in Otello

  the death of Desdemona, in Otello

  the death of Desdemona, in Otello

  the death of Desdemona, in Otello

  the death of Leonora in La Forza del Destino

  the death of Leonora in La Forza del Destino

  Carlo and Alvaro in La Forza del Destino

  the death of Aida and Rhadames, in Aida

  the death of Violetta in La Traviata

  the death of Violetta in La Traviata

  the death of Gilda in Rigoletto

  the death of Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera

  the death of Simon Boccanegra

  the death of Thaïs

  the death of Werther

  the death of Mélisande, in Pelléas et Mélisande

  the death of Tristan, in Tristan und Isolde

  the death of Senta, in The Flying Dutchman

  the death of Siegfried in Götterdämmerung

  the death of Eddie in A View from the Bridge