For 10 points, name this ultimate fate of the title characters of Roberto Devereux, Anna Bolena, and Billy Budd.
In one opera, a character requests to participate in this type of event by singing "Digli che in questo petto come puro l'amor, sacra è la fiamma." The title character of another opera ponders the delayed delivery of a ring before learning of this kind of upcoming event, which prompts his aria "Bagnato il sen di lagrime." In an English opera, the protagonist sings "I've sighted a sail in the storm / the far-shining sail that's not Fate" the night before one. Percy and Rochefort ask to take part in one of these events in a Donizetti opera. A character watching one of these events mumbles "ancora non ti muovere" after exclaiming "Ecco un artista!" The title character of a Benjamin Britten opera sings "Starry Vere, God bless you" during his one of these events. Due to the treachery of Scarpia, Cavaradossi undergoes a real one in Tosca. For 10 points, name this ultimate fate of the title characters of Roberto Devereux, Anna Bolena, and Billy Budd.
In one opera, a character requests to participate in this type of event by singing "Digli che in questo petto come puro l'amor, sacra è la fiamma.
executions [or being executed; accept being beheaded or being hanged or going before a firing squad; prompt on less specific answers such as killings or death or dying]