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

Attila

March 28, 2025

Giuseppe Verdi

Ruggero Raimondi [Attila] ** Sherrill Milnes [Ezio] ** Christina Deutekom [Odabella] ** Carlo Bergonzi [Foresto] ** Ricardo Cassinelli [Uldino] ** Jules Bastin [Leone] ** Ambrosian Singers [Leaders, kings & soldiers, Huns, Gepids, Ostrogoths, Heruls, Thuringians, Quadi, Druids, priestesses, men & women of Aquileia, Aquileian maidens in warlike dress, Roman officers & soldiers, Roman virgins & children, hermits, slaves] ** Finchley Children's Music Group ** Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ** Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)

  • Il trovatore

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Giorgio Zancanaro [Il Conte di Luna] ** Rosalind Plowright [Leonora] ** Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Azucena] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] ** Evgeny Nesterenko [Ferrando] ** Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Ines] ** Walter Gullino [Ruiz] ** Alfredo Giacomotti [Un vecchio zingaro] ** Aldo Verrecchia [Un messo] ** Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Seguaci] ** Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ** Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

  • Tancredi

    Episode

    Gioachino Rossini

    Marilyn Horne [Tancredi] ** Lella Cuberli [Amenaide] ** Ernesto Palacio [Argirio] ** Nicola Zaccaria [Orbazzano] ** Bernadette Manca di Nissa [Isaura] ** Patricia Schuman [Roggiero] ** Orchestra e coro del Teatro la Fenice ** Ralf Weikert (conductor)

  • Tosca

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Floria Tosca] ** José Carreras (tenor) [Mario Cavaradossi] ** Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Il barone Vitellio Scarpia] ** Gottfried Hornik (bass) [Cesare Angelotti] ** Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Spoletta] ** Fernando Corena [Un sagrestano] ** Victor von Halem (baritone) [Sciarrone] ** Victor von Halem (baritone) [Un carceriere] ** Wolfgang Bünten (tenor) [Un pastore] ** Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin ** Schöneberger Sängerknaben ** Berlin Philharmonic ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)