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.

  • L'isola disabitata

    Episode

    Joseph Haydn

    Susanne Mentzer [Costanza] ** Ying Huang [Silvia] ** John Aler [Gernando] ** Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] ** Padova Chamber Orchestra ** David Golub (conductor)
  • Ariodante

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Joyce DiDonato [Ariodante] ** Matthew Brook [King of Scotland] ** Karina Gauvin [Ginevra] ** Topi Lehtipuu [Lurcanio] ** Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso] ** Sabina Puértolas [Dalinda] ** Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani [Odoardo] ** Il Complesso Barocco ** Alan Curtis (conductor)
  • Aida

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [King of Egypt] ** Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [Amneris] ** Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Aida] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Radamès] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Ramfis] ** Leo Nucci (baritone) [Amonasro] ** Piero de Palma (tenor) [Messenger] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Claudio Abbado (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)
  • Ottone in villa

    Episode

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Sonia Prina [Ottone] ** Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] ** Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] ** Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] ** Topi Lehtipuu [Decio] ** Il Giardino Armonico ** Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
  • Les Huguenots

    Episode

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Ghylaine Raphanel [Marguerite de Valois] ** Françoise Pollet [Valentine] ** Danielle Borst [Urbain] ** Richard Leech (tenor) [Raoul de Nangis] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Le Comte de Nevers] ** Boris Martinovic [Le Comte de Saint-Bris] ** Nicola Ghiuselev [Marcel] ** Jean-Luc Maurette [De Tavannes] ** Christian Jean [De Cossé/Bois Roé/Un Moine] ** Marc Barrard (baritone) [De Thoré] ** Antoine Garcin [De Retz] ** Herve Martin [De Meru/Un Moine/Un Archer] ** Christian Boulay [Maurevert/Un Moine] ** Chours de l'Opéra de Montpellier ** Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier ** Cyril Diederich (conductor)
  • Il re pastore

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Reri Grist [Aminta] ** Lucia Popp [Elisa] ** Arlene Saunders [Tamiri] ** Nicola Monti [Agenore] ** Luigi Alva [Alessandro] ** Orchestra of Naples ** Denis Vaughan (conductor)
  • Il turco in Italia

    Episode

    Gioachino Rossini

    Michele Pertusi [Selim] ** Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Donna Fiorilla] ** Alessandro Corbelli [Don Geronio] ** Ramon Vargas [Don Narciso] ** Roberto de Candia (baritone) [Poeta] ** Laura Polverelli [Zaida] ** Francesco Piccoli [Albazar] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
  • Carmen

    Episode

    Georges Bizet

    Victoria de los Angeles [Carmen] ** Nicolai Gedda [Don José] ** Janine Micheau [Micaëla] ** Ernest Blanc [Escamillo] ** Denise Monteil [Frasquita] ** Marcelle Croisier [Mercédès] ** Monique Linval [Mercédès] ** Jean-Christophe Benoit [Le Dancaïr] ** Michel Hamel [Le Remendado] ** Bernard Plantey [Moralès] ** Xavier Depraz [Zuniga] ** Chours de la Radiodiffusion Française ** Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française ** Petits Chanteurs de Versailles ** Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
  • Mefistofele

    Episode

    Arrigo Boito

    Samuel Ramey (bass) [Mefistofele] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Faust] ** Eva Marton [Margherite ** Sergio Tedesco [Wagner] ** Tamara Takács [Marta] ** Éva Farkas [Pantalis] ** Antal Pataki [Nereo] ** Hungaroton Opera Chorus [Celestial host ** Mystic Chorus ** Cherubim ** Penitents ** Promenaders ** Crossbow Shooters ** Huntsmen ** Students ** Countrymen ** Townsfolk ** Burghers ** Witches ** Warlocks ** Corytides ** Sirens ** Dorids ** Coryphaie ** Warriors ** Hungarian State Orchestra ** Nyiregyházi Boys' Choir ** Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)