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.

  • Tannhäuser

    Episode

    Richard Wagner

    Matti Salminen (bass) [Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Tannhäuser] ** Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Wolfram von Eschenbach] ** William Pell [Walther von der Vogelweide] ** Kurt Rydl [Biterolf] ** Clemens Bieber [Heinrich der Schreiber] ** Oskar Hillebrandt [Reinmar von Zweter] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Elisabeth] ** Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Venus] ** Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Ein Junger Hirt] ** Margaret Stobart [Erster Edelknabe] ** Jeanette Wilson [Zweiter Edelknabe] ** Ingrid Baier [Dritter Edelknabe] ** Karen Shelby [Vierter Edelknabe] ** Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden [Thüringische Ritter, Grafen und Edelleute ** Edelfrauen ** Ältere und jungere Pilger] ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
  • Pelléas et Mélisande

    Episode

    Claude Debussy

    Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Mélisande] ** Didier Henry [Pelléas] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Golaud] ** Pierre Thau [Arkel] ** Claudine Carlson [Geneviève] ** Françoise Golfier [Yniold] ** Phillip Ens [Un berger ** Un médecin] ** Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal [Marins en coulisse, servantes mendiants] ** Orchestre symphonique de Montréal ** Charles Dutoit (conductor)
  • Turandot

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Joan Sutherland [Turandot] ** Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] ** Montserrat Caballé [Liù] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov [Timur] ** Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] ** Tom Krause [Ping] ** Pier Francesco Poli [Pang ** Il Principe di Persia] ** Piero de Palma [Pong] ** Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] ** John Alldis Choir ** Wandsworth Boys' Choir ** London Philharmonic Orchestra ** Zubin Mehta (conductor)
  • Poliuto

    Episode

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Franco Corelli [Poliuto] ** Maria Callas [Paolina] ** Ettore Bastianini [Severo] ** Nicola Zaccaria [Callistene] ** Piero de Palma (tenor) [Nearco] ** Rinaldo Pelizzoni [Felice] ** Virgilio Carbonari (bass) [Un cristiano] ** Giuseppe Morresi [Un cristiano] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Antonino Votto (conductor)
  • Dalibor

    Episode

    Bedřich Smetana

    Ivan Kusnher [Vladislav] ** Leo Marian Vodicka [Dalibor] ** Vratislav Kriz [Budivoj] ** Jiri Kalendovsky [Benes] ** Miroslav Kopp [Vítek] ** Eva Urbanová [Milada] ** Jirina Markova [Jitka] ** Bohuslav Marsik [Judge] ** Chorus of the Prague National Theatre ** Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre ** Zdenek Kosler (conductor)
  • Atalanta

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Éva Farkas [Atalanta] ** Éva Bártfai-Barta [Meleagro] ** Éva Lax [Irene] ** János Bándi [Aminta] ** József Gregor [Nicandro] ** László Polgár [Mercury] ** Savaria Vocal Ensemble ** Capella Savaria ** Nicholas McGegan (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)
  • Lucio Silla

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Anthony Rolfe-Johnson [Lucio Silla] ** Lella Cuberli [Giunia] ** Anne Murray [Cecilio] ** Britt-Marie Aruhn [Cinna] ** Christine Barbaux [Celia] ** Ad van Baasbank [Aufidio] ** Orchestre et Chœurs du Théatre Royal de la Monnaie ** Sylvain Cambreling (conductor)
  • Ivan Susanin

    Episode

    Mikhail Glinka

    Nicola Ghiuselev [Ivan Susanin] ** Elena Stoyanova [Antonida] ** Hristina Angelakova [Vanja] ** Roumen Doikov [Bogdan Sobinin] ** Nikolai Stoilov [Russian Soldier] ** Angel Petkov [Polish Messenger] ** Dimiter Stanchev [Sigizmund the Third] ** Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir [Peasants, Russian volunteers, ladies-in-waiting, Polish knights, soldiers, etc.] ** Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra ** Ivan Marinov (conductor)
  • Catone in Utica

    Episode

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Cecilia Gasdia [Cesare] ** Marilyn Schmiege [Marzia] ** Susanna Rigacci [Arbace] ** Margarita Zimmermann [Emilia] ** Lucrezia Lendi [Fulvio] ** Ernesto Palacio [Catone] ** I Solist Veneti ** Claudio Scimione (conductor)
  • Lucia di Lammermoor

    Episode

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Lucia] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Edgardo] ** Sherill Milnes [Enrico] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Raimondo] ** Ryland Davies [Arturo] ** Huguette Tourangeau [Alisa] ** Pier Francesco Poli [Normanno] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Richard Bonynge (conductor)
  • Rienzi

    Episode

    Richard Wagner

    Colonna] ** John Janssen [Adriano] ** Bodo Brinkmann [Paolo Orsini] ** Hans Helms [Kardinal Orvieto] ** Norbert Orth [Baroncelli] ** Kieth Engen [Cecco del Vecchio] ** Carmen Anhorn [Ein Friedensbote] ** Raimund Grumbach [Der Gesandte Mailands] ** Hans Wilbrink [Der Gesandte der lombardischen Städte] ** Friedrich Lenz [Der Gesandte Neapels] ** Alfred Kuhn [Der Gesandte Bayerns] ** Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper ** Bayerisches Staatsorchester ** Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)