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

Les contes d'Hoffmann

October 27, 2024

Jacques Offenbach

Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Hoffmann] ** Edita Gruberova [Olympia/Antonia/Giulietta] ** Claudia Eder [Nicklausse/La Muse] ** Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Lindorf] ** Gabriel Bacquier [Coppélius] ** James Morris (bass) [Miracle] ** Justino Diaz [Dapertutto] ** Robert Gambill [Andrès] ** Paul Crook [Cochenille/Pitichinaccio] ** Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Frantz] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [La voix de la mère d'Antonia] ** Robin Leggate [Nathanaël] ** Gérard Friedmann [Spalanzani] ** Urban Malmberg (bass) [Hermann] ** Richard Van Allan [Schlémil] ** Kurt Rydl [Luther] ** Harald Stamm [Crespel] ** Chœurs de Radio France [Esprits invisibles, étudiants, garçons de taverne, invités de Spalanzani, laquais, invitétes de Giulietta] ** Orchestre National de France ** Seiji Ozawa (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)

  • Tamerlano

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Derek Ragin [Tamerlan] ** Nigel Robson [Bajazet] ** Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Asteria] ** Michael Chance (alto) [Andronicus] ** Jane Findlay [Irène] ** Renè Schirrer [Léon] ** The English Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

  • Manon Lescaut

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Mirella Freni (soprano) [Manon Lescaut] ** Renato Bruson [Lescaut] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Il Cavaliere Renato Des Grieux] ** Kurt Rydl [Geronte di Ravoir] ** Robert Gambill [Edmondo] ** George Macpherson [L'Oste] ** John Fryatt [Il Maestro di Ballo] ** Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Un Musico] ** Handel Thomas [Sergente degli Arcieri] ** Mark Curtis [Un Lampionaio] ** John Tomlinson [Un Comandante di Marina] ** Paschal Allen [Un Sergente] ** Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

  • Nabucco

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) [Nabucco] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ismaele] ** Evgeny Nesterenko [Zaccaria] ** Ghena Dimitrova [Abigaille] ** Lucia Valentini Terrani [Fenena] ** Kurt Rydl [Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo] ** Volker Horn [Abdallo] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)