All good things must come to an end. Or, as Erda has it, 'Alles was ist, endet.' It has been tremendous fun to put together these seasons, and I could happily have gone on for longer, but the way in which this eighth selection concluded suggested more than a mere end of season. What strikes me is how many great works, some of which I love very dearly, have yet to be programmed, especially when it comes to Mozart and Wagner
, but from many others too, from Purcell to Birtwistle, from Gluck to Goehr. As I noted at the beginning, I have also ignored entirely newly commissioned works. Perhaps that would be an idea for a subsequent series. Here, at any rate, is my final selection of sixteen productions:
Cavalieri,
Rappresentazione di anima et di corpo
Lachenmann,
Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern
Rameau,
Platée
Berg,
Lulu
Berio,
Un re in ascolto
Gluck,
Alceste
Strauss,
Die Frau ohne Schatten 
Mozart,
Der Schauspieldirektor
, Purcell,
The Indian Queen
, and Mozart,
Zaide
Berlioz,
Béatrice et Bénédict
Haydn,
La fedeltà premiata
Korngold,
Die tote Stadt
Handel,
Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Henze,
The Bassarids
Monteverdi,
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
,
Il ballo delle ingrate, and Stravinsky,
Œdipus Rex
Wagner,
Parsifal
Cage,
Europeras I and II
