Federal funding rescission:

Statement from WETA President and CEO, Sharon Percy Rockefeller

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.

  • La Vestale

    Episode

    Gaspare Spontini

    Anthony Michaels-Moore [Licinius] ** J. Patrick Raftery [Cinna] ** Dimitri Kavrakos [Le Souveraine Pontife] ** Aldo Bramante [Le chef des aruspices] ** Silvestro Sammaritano [Un consul] ** Karen Huffstodt [Julia] ** Denyce Graves [La Grande Vestale] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Riccardo Muti (conductor)
  • Faust

    Episode

    Charles Gounod

    Richard Leech (tenor) [Le docteur Faust] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Marguerite] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Méphistophélès] ** Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Valentin] ** Martine Mahé (mezzo-soprano) [Siébel] ** Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Marthe] ** Marc Barrard (baritone) [Wagner] ** Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse ** Michel Plasson (conductor)
  • Die Entführung aus dem Serail

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Edita Gruberova [Konstanze] ** Kathleen Battle [Blonde] ** Gösta Winbergh [Belmonte] ** Heinz Zednik [Pedrillo] ** Martti Talvela [Osmin] ** Will Quadflieg [Selim] ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
  • La Juive

    Episode

    Fromental Halévy

    José Carreras (tenor) [Eléazar] ** Julia Varady (soprano) [Rachel] ** Dalmacio Gonzales [Léopold] ** June Anderson [La Princesse Eudoxie] ** Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) [Le Cardinal de Brogni] ** René Massis [Ruggiero] ** Renè Schirrer [Albert] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Antonio de Almeida (conductor)
  • Parsifal

    Episode

    Richard Wagner

    James Morris (bass) [Amfortas] ** Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Titurel] ** Kurt Moll [Gurnemanz] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Parsifal] ** Ekkehard Wlaschiha [Klingsor] ** Jessye Norman (soprano) [Kundry] ** The Metropolitan Opera Chorus [Knights of the Grail ** Esquires ** Flower Maidens ** Voice from Above ** Youths and Boys] ** The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ** James Levine (conductor)
  • Giustino

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Michael Chance (alto) [Giustino] ** Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) [Arianna] ** Dawn Kotoski [Anastasio] ** Juliana Gondek [Fortuna] ** Dean Ely [Polidarte] ** Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano) [Leocasta] ** Mark Padmore (tenor) [Vitaliano] ** Drew Minter [Amanzio] ** Dean Ely [Voce di Dentro] ** kammerchor cantamus halle ** Freiburg Baroque Orchestra ** Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
  • Dorilla in Tempe

    Episode

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Maria-Cristina Kiehr [Dorilla] ** John Elwes [Elmiro] ** Philippe Cantor [Admeto] ** Jean Nirouët [Nomio] ** Consuelo Carulli [Eudamia] ** Laure Florentin [Filindo] ** Chorus of Opera Nice ** Ensemble Baroque de Nice ** Gilbert Bezzina (conductor)
  • Macbeth

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Leo Nucci (baritone) [Macbeth] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Banco] ** Shirley Verrett [Lady Macbeth] ** Anna Caterina Antonacci [Dama] ** Veriano Luchetti [Macduff] ** Antonio Barasorda [Malcolm] ** Sergio Fontana [Medico] ** Gianfranco Casarini [Servo] ** Gastone Sarti [Sicario] ** Giuseppe Morresi [Araldo] ** Natale de Carolis [Prima apparizione] ** Barbara Briscik [Seconda apparizione] ** Marco Fanti [Terza apparizione] ** Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna [Streghe, messaggeri del re, nobili e profughi scozzesi, sicari, soldati inglesi, bardi] ** Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna ** Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
  • Naïs (Opéra pour la paix [pastorale héroïque])

    Episode

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Ian Caddy (baritone) [Jupiter] ** Ian Caley (tenor) [Neptun] ** Ann Mackay (soprano) ** Linda Russell (soprano) [Naïs] ** Ian Caddy (baritone) [Télénus] ** John Tomlinson (bass) [Pluton] ** Richard Jackson (baritone) [Tirésie] ** Brian Parson (haute-contre) ** Antony Ransome (baritone) ** Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Premère Bergère (First Shepherdess)] ** English Bach Festival Singers [Titans et Géants (Titans & Giants) ** Dieux du Ciel (gods and goddesses) ** Peuples de la terre (people of the earth) ** Divinités de la Mer (sea divinities) ** English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra ** Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
  • La Rondine

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Magda] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ruggero] ** Mariana Nicolesco [Lisette] ** David Rendall [Prunier] ** Leo Nucci (baritone) [Rambaldo] ** Lillian Watson [Yvette] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** London Symphony Orchestra ** Lorin Maazel (conductor)
  • Maometto Secondo

    Episode

    Gioachino Rossini

    June Anderson [Anna Erisso] ** Margarita Zimmermann [Calbo] ** Ernesto Palacio [Paolo Erisso] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Maometto] ** Laurence Dale [Condulmiero ** Selimo] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Claudio Scimione (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)