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

Farnace

January 27, 2025

Antonio Vivaldi

Max Emanuel Cencic [Farnace] ** Ruxandra Donose [Tamiri] ** Mary Ellen Nesi [Berenice] ** Ann Hallenberg [Selinda] ** Karina Gauvin [Gilade] ** Daniel Behle [Pompeo] ** Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Aquilio] ** Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano ** I Barocchisti ** Diego Fasolis (conductor)

  • Beatrice di Tenda

    Episode

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Edita Gruberova [Beatrice di Tenda] ** Vesselina Kasarova [Agnese] ** Igor Morosow [Filippo Maria Visconti] ** Don Bernardini [Orombello] ** Branko Robinsak [Anichino] ** Daniel Sumegi [Rizzardo] ** Wiener Jeunesse-Chor ** ORF-Symphonieorchester ** Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)

  • La Pietra del Paragone

    Episode

    Gioachino Rossini

    José Carreras (tenor) [Giocondo] ** Beverly Wolff (mezzo-soprano) [Marchesina Clarice] ** Elaine Bonazzi [Baronessa Aspasia] ** Anne Elgar [Donna Fulvia] ** John Reardon [Conte Asdrubale] ** Andrew Foldi [Macrobio] ** Justino Diaz [Pacuvio] ** Raymond Murcell [Fabrizio] ** The Clarion Concerts Orchestra and Chorus ** Newell Jenkins (conductor)

  • Falstaff

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Renato Bruson [Sir John Falstaff] ** Leo Nucci [Ford] ** Dalmacio González [Fenton] ** Michael Sells [Dr Cajus] ** Francis Egerton [Bardolfo] ** William Wildermann [Pistola] ** Katia Ricciarelli [Mrs. Alice Ford] ** Barbara Hendricks [Nannetta] ** Lucia Valentini Terrani [Mrs. Quickly] ** Brenda Boozer [Mrs. Meg Page] ** Los Angeles Master Chorale [Townspeople, Ford's servants, people dressed as sprites, fairies, witches, etc.] ** Los Angeles Philharmonic ** Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

  • Die Fledermaus

    Episode

    Johann Strauss Jr.

    Wolfgang Brendel [Gabriel von Eisenstein] ** Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Rosalinde] ** Tom Krause [Frank] ** Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Prinz Orlofsky] ** Richard Leech (tenor) [Alfred] ** Olaf Bär (baritone) [Dr. Falke] ** Anton Wendler [Dr. Blind] ** Edita Gruberova [Adele] ** Karin Göttling [Ida] ** Otto Schenk [Frosch] ** Vienna State Opera Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** André Previn (conductor)