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.

  • Manon Lescaut

    Episode

    Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

    Mady Mesplé [Manon Lescaut] ** Peter-Christoph Runge [Le Marquis d'Hérigny] ** Jean-Claude Orliac [Le Chevalier Des Grieux] ** Yves Bisson [Lescaut] ** Emmy Greger [Marguerite] ** Gérard Friedmann [Gervais] ** Ghislaine Victorius [Zabi] ** Alain Duverry (baritone) ** Bernard Fabre-Garrus [Durozeau] ** Nicole Chaudeau [Madame Bancelin] ** Jean Bussard [Un Domestique] ** Chœurs de Radio France ** Orchestre Lyrique de Radio-France ** Jean-Pierre Marty (conductor)
  • Thésée

    Episode

    Jean-Baptiste Lully

    Howard Crook [Thésée] ** Laura Pudwell [Medée] ** Ellen Hargis [Æglé] ** Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] ** Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] ** Mireille Lebel [Dorine ** Venus ** Une autre Bergere] ** Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve ** Minerve ** Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] ** Marc Molomot [Bachus ** Un Vieillard ** Un Berger] ** Marek Rzepka [Mars ** Un Combattant] ** Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir] ** Un Jeux] ** Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir] ** Un Jeux ** Un Vieillard] ** Yulia Van Doren [Cerés ** Une Bergere] ** Teresa Wakim [Cerés ** Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus ** Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs (Musical Directors)
  • Les Troyens

    Episode

    Hector Berlioz

    Jon Vickers [Enée] ** Josephine Veasey [Didon] ** Berit Lindholm (soprano) [Cassandre] ** Peter Glossop [Chorèbe] ** Heather Begg [Anna] ** Roger Soyer [Narbal] ** Anthony Raffell [Panthée] ** Anne Howells [Ascagne] ** Ian Partridge [Poète tyrien] ** Pierre Thau [Priamus] ** Elizabeth Bainbridge [Hécube] ** Maldwyn Davies (tenor) [Hylas] ** Raimund Herincx [Sentinelle] ** Denis Wicks [Sentinelle] ** David Lennox [Hélénus] ** Wandsworth Boys' Choir ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
  • Don Quichotte

    Episode

    Jules Massenet

    Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) [La belle Dulcinée] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Don Quichotte] ** Alain Fondary [Sancho Pança] ** Isabelle Vernet [Pedro] ** Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Garcias] ** Christian Papis [Rodriguez] ** Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [Juan] ** Jean-Claude Barbier [Le chef des bandits] ** Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse ** Michel Plasson (conductor)
  • Madama Butterfly

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Leontyne Price (soprano) [Cio-cio-san] ** Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano) [Suzuki] ** Richard Tucker (tenor) [B. F. Pinkerton] ** Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Kate Pinkerton] ** Philip Maero (baritone) [Sharpless] ** Piero de Palma (tenor) [Goro] ** Robert Kerns (baritone) [Il principe Yamadori] ** Virgilio Carbonari (bass) [Il Bonzo] ** Arturo La Porta (baritone) [Il commissario imperiale] ** Mario Rinaudo (bass) [L'ufficiale del registro] ** Leo Pudis (bass) [Lo zio Yakusidè] ** Fernanda Cadoni (mezzo-soprano) [La madre di Cio-cio-san] ** Gianna Lollini (soprano) [La zia di Cio-cio-san] ** Silvia Bertona (soprano) [La cugina di Cio-cio-san] ** Orchestra e coro RCA Italiana ** Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
  • Boris Godunov

    Episode

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Alexander Vedernikov [Boris Godunov] ** Glafira Koroleva [Feodor] ** Elena Shkolnikova [Xenia] ** Nina Grigorieva [Nurse] ** Andrei Sokolov [Shuisky] ** Alexander Voroshilo [Shchelkalov] ** Vladimir Matorin (bass) [Pimen] ** Vladisolav Piavko [Grigory/Dmitri] ** Irina Arkhipova [Marina Mnishek] ** Yuri Masurok [Rangoni] ** Artur Eisen [Varlaam] ** Anatoli Mishutin [Missail] ** Ludmila Simonova [Hostess] ** Janis Sporgis [Simpleton] ** Vladimir Filippov [Nikitich] ** Nikolaï Nizinenko [Mitiukha] ** Yuri Elnikov [Boyar/Khrushchov/Lavitsky] ** Vladimir Silaev [Chernikovsky] ** USSR TV and Radio Large Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ** Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)
  • I Vespri Siciliani

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Elena] ** Chris Merritt [Arrigo] ** Giorgio Zancanaro [Monforte] ** Ferruccio Furlanetto [Procida] ** Gloria Banditelli [Ninetta] ** Ernesto Gavazzi [Danieli] ** Enzo Capuano [Bethune] ** Francesco Musinu [Vaudemont] ** Paolo Barbacini [Tebaldo] ** Marco Chingari [Roberto] ** Ferrero Poggi [Manfredo] ** Coro del Teatro alla Scala [Sicilian men and women, French soldiers] ** Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Riccardo Muti (conductor)
  • Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria

    Episode

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Dominique Visse [L'Umana Fragilità] ** Michael Schopper [Tempo] ** Martina Bovet [Amore] ** Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) [Fortuna] ** Christoph Pregardien (tenor) [Ulisse] ** Bernarda Fink (alto) [Penelope] ** Christina Högman [Telemaco] ** Martyn Hill [Eumete] ** Jocelyne Taillon [Ericlea] ** Mark Tucker (tenor) [Anfinomo] ** David Thomas [Antinoo] ** Guy de Mey (tenor) [Iro] ** Faridah Subrata [Melanto] ** Jörg Dürgmüller [Eurimaco] ** Olivier Lallouette [Giove] ** Claron McFadden [Giunone] ** Francesca Congiu [Naiadi] ** Elisabeth Scholl [Nereidi] ** Concerto Vocale ** René Jacobs (conductor)
  • Lohengrin

    Episode

    Richard Wagner

    Kurt Moll [Heinrich der Vogler (Henry the Fowler)] ** Siegfried Jerusalem [Lohengrin] ** Cheryl Studer [Elsa von Brabant] ** Hartmut Welker [Friedrich von Telramund] ** Waltraud Meier [Ortrud] ** Andreas Schmidt [The King's Herald] ** Bojidar Nikolov [Nobleman of Brabant] ** Franz Kasemann [Nobleman of Brabant] ** Claudio Otelli [Nobleman of Brabant] ** Peter Koves [Nobleman of Brabant] ** Amy-Linda Domaracki [Page] ** Ingrid Sieghart [Page] ** Senta Fischer [Page] ** Elisabeth Mach [Page] ** Vienna State Opera Chorus [Saxon and Thuringian counts and nobles ** Brabantine counts and nobles, noblewomen, pages, vassals, ladies, serfs] ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Claudio Abbado (conductor)