Opera Encore

To accommodate our international listeners, WETA VivaLaVoce features a complete opera at 3 am ET each day. During this timeslot, we re-air the Opera at 8 broadcast from the previous month. So, operas featured one month at 8pm will be rebroadcast the following month at 3am.

Current Episode

Pelléas et Mélisande

May 21, 2026

Claude Debussy

Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Mélisande] ** Didier Henry [Pelléas] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Golaud] ** Pierre Thau [Arkel] ** Claudine Carlson [Geneviève] ** Françoise Golfier [Yniold] ** Phillip Ens [Un berger ** Un médecin] ** Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal [Marins en coulisse, servantes mendiants] ** Orchestre symphonique de Montréal ** Charles Dutoit (conductor)

  • Dardanus

    Episode

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [Dardanus] ** Véronique Gens [Iphise] ** Laurent Naouri [Anténor] ** Mireille Delunsch [Vénus] ** Jean-Philippe Courtis [Isménor] ** Russell Smythe [Teucer] ** Magdalena Kozená [Une Bergère] ** Françoise Masset [L'Amour] ** Jean-Louis Bindi [Un Phrygien] ** Magdalena Kozená [Première Songe] ** Alain Lombard (conductor) [Seconde Songe] ** Marcos Pujol [Troisième Songe] ** Magdalena Kozená [Première Phrygienne] ** Françoise Masset [Seconde Phrygienne] ** Chour des Musiciens du Louvre ** Les musiciens du Louvre ** Marc Minkowski (conductor)

  • La gioconda

    Episode

    Amilcare Ponchielli

    Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [La Gioconda] ** Alfreda Hodgson [La Cieca] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Enzo Grimaldo] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Alvise Badoero] ** Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Laura] ** Sherill Milnes [Barnaba] ** John Del Carlo [Zuane] ** Regolo Romani [Isepo] ** Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Pilota ** Prima voce dalla laguna] ** Geoffrey Shaw [Seconda voce dalla laguna] ** Stephen Varcoe (baritone) [Cantore] ** Rodney Macann [Barnabotto] ** London Opera Chorus [Barnabotti ** arnsenalotti, gentiluomini e dame, mascere, marinai e mozzi, cantori, popolo] ** National Philharmonic Orchestra ** Bruno Bartoletti (conductor)

  • Pénélope

    Episode

    Gabriel Fauré

    Jessye Norman (soprano) [Pénélope] ** Jocelyne Taillon [Euryclée] ** Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Alkandre] ** Christine Barbaux (soprano) [Phylo] ** Danielle Borst [Lydie] ** Michelle Command [Mélantho] ** Norma Lerer [Cléone] ** Alain Vanzo [Ulysse] ** Jean Dupouy [Antinoüs] ** Paul Guigue [Ctésippe] ** Gérard Friedmann [Léodès] ** Philippe Huttenlocher [Eurymaque] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Eumée] ** François Le Roux [Pisandre] ** Ensemble Vocal Jean LaForge ** Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo ** Charles Dutoit (conductor)

  • Un Ballo in Maschera

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Riccardo] ** Renato Bruson [Renato] ** Margaret Price [Amelia] ** Christa Ludwig [Ulrica] ** Kathleen Battle [Oscar] ** Peter Weber [Silvano] ** Robert Lloyd [Samuel] ** Malcolm King [Tom] ** Alexander Oliver [Un Giudice] ** Peter Hall [Un Servo d'Amelia] ** London Opera Chorus [Deputies, officers, sailors, guards, men and women of the people, gentlemen, followers of Samuel and Tom, servants, maskers and dancing couples] ** Royal College of Music Junior Department Chorus ** National Philharmonic Orchestra ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

  • Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar)

    Episode

    Mikhail Glinka

    Nicola Ghiuselev [Ivan Susanin] ** Elena Stoyanova [Antonida] ** Hristina Angelakova [Vanja] ** Roumen Doikov [Bogdan Sobinin] ** Nikolai Stoilov [Russian Soldier] ** Angel Petkov [Polish Messenger] ** Dimiter Stanchev [Sigizmund the Third] ** Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir [Peasants, Russian volunteers, ladies-in-waiting, Polish knights, soldiers, etc.] ** Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra ** Ivan Marinov (conductor)

  • Faust

    Episode

    Charles Gounod

    Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Marguerite] ** Francisco Araiza [Faust] ** Evgeny Nesterenko [Méphistophélès] ** Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Valentin] ** Pamela Coburn [Siébel] ** Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marthe] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Wagner] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ** Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

  • Ariodante

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Denis Sedov [Il Re di Scozia] ** Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Ariodante] ** Lynne Dawson (soprano) [Ginevra] ** Richard Croft [Lurcanio] ** Ewa Podles [Polinesso] ** Verónica Cangemi [Dalinda] ** Luc Coadou [Odoardo] ** Chour des Musiciens du Louvre ** Les musiciens du Louvre ** Marc Minkowski (conductor)

  • Morgiane (Le Sultan d'Ispahan)

    Episode

    Edmond Dédé

    OperaCréole Ensemble ** Opera Lafayette Orchestra ** Patrick Dupre Quigley (conductor)

  • La Clemenza di Tito

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Tito Vespasiano] ** Julia Varady (soprano) [Vitellia] ** Sylvia McNair [Servilia] ** Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Sesto] ** Catherine Robbin [Annio] ** Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [Publio] ** The Monteverdi Choir ** The English Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

  • Turandot

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Joan Sutherland [Turandot] ** Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] ** Montserrat Caballé [Liù] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov [Timur] ** Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] ** Tom Krause [Ping] ** Pier Francesco Poli [Pang ** Il Principe di Persia] ** Piero de Palma [Pong] ** Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] ** John Alldis Choir ** Wandsworth Boys' Choir ** London Philharmonic Orchestra ** Zubin Mehta (conductor)