The end of "La Sylphide" inverts that.
THERE is not a dry eye in the house when Violetta dies at the end of "La Traviata", in the arms of her stodgy young lover.
Meanwhile, the consortium is intent on getting rid of the stalls at the top end of La Rambla that sell ice cream, sweets and souvenirs.
Among the liveliest city beaches is Platja de Sant Sebastià at the end of la Barceloneta, a wedge of land jutting into the Mediterranean near the Port Vell Old Harborr).
The end of "La Chute d'Icare" resembles a fughetta as clarinet, piccolo, violin and mallet percussion follow one another into a squealing coda.
At the end of "La Vie Matérielle," she describes an encounter with an imaginary man, a hallucination, as if this man were perfectly real.
AT the end of "La Bohème," as Puccini envisioned the opera, the frail seamstress Mimi dies in bed in a garret overlooking the rooftops of Paris, attended by only her five bohemian cronies.
It was a vision expressed near the end of "La Notte," when his frequent star Monica Vitti observes, "Each time I have tried to communicate with someone, love has disappeared".
Whether it's the jazzy climax of "Turangalîla," the monumental descending bass line at the end of "La Nativité du Seigneur," or the awesome shimmering of woodwind, brass, gongs, and cowbells that closes "Et Exspecto," the music has the happy effect of flattening its listeners against the wall.
But at the end of "La Edad de Oro" on Tuesday, the three men had fun by swapping roles: first Mr. Galván sang, Alfredo danced while David played guitar, and then Mr. Galván played guitar while David danced and Alfredo sang.
One of his most poignant moments comes near the end of "La Serenade Interrompue," where -- after all the broken-off and jumbled Spanish patterns, which he makes at once funny and dark with low-register resonances -- a melody snakes up, sounding completely uncertain about where to go.
