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Rheingold - she's taken as payment when Wotan won't cough up to Fasolt and Fafnir Inc for their construction work on his new pad.
I think I would enjoy seeing Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from the Harry Potter films) cast as Fasolt. He would at least be much larger than the giants one sees on stage.
Those wacky Teutons! The creators of screwball opera!
Except that that was done using CGI trickery - he's not actually that tall.
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In Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, Romeo gets sent into exile after killing Tybalt.
OK, here's another one (and I really can't think of an example): an operatic character who vanishes into thin air, and leaves no trace behind. Again, the more familiar the opera, the better. Thanks.
Apart from ghosts, you mean? (e.g. Quint at the end of The Turn of the Screw)
How about Fiorello in the Barber of Seville. Apparently, he's the Count's right hand man at the start; then after the aubade and choral scene that starts the opera, he exits and is not only not seen again, but never mentioned either.