Next Sunday, the day after the last performance of "Into the Fire," he will perform in the Bang on a Can Marathon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
In 1749, Bach performed the St John Passion once more, to become his last performance of a Passion.
His last performance of a staged opera was at the Met on March 14 2004.
The last performance of the work, in its North American premiere, is tomorrow afternoon.
His last performance of Wotan was in that opera, in Paris in 1972.
"There's a lot of expectation in this year, because the last performance of 2010 was a good thing," he said.
It was a VIP audience for what was likely to be the last performance of the venerable Tehran Symphony Orchestra.
The New Yorker, June 7 , 1941P. 9 Talk story about the 3180th & last performance of "Tobacco Road".
I saw the last performance of the Paris run, and came away in something like the state of dazed bliss that Baudelaire described.
His last performance of the night (after an encore), was an a-cappella version of "Tous Les Mêmes" that he sang with a group of four young men.
Tomorrow afternoon (a 4 p.m. curtain time) you can take in the last performance of Rossini's "Barber of Seville," conducted by Bernard Labadie.
