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.

  • Ariadne auf Naxos

    Episode

    Richard Strauss

    Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Primadonna/Ariadne] ** Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [The Composer] ** Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Zerbinetta] ** Gary Lakes [The Tenor/Bacchus] ** Hermann Prey (baritone) [A Music Master] ** Otto Schenk [The Major-domo] ** Ewald Aichberger [An Officer] ** Heinz Zednik (tenor) [A Dancing Master] ** Günter von Kannen [A Wig-Maker] ** Alfred Sramek [A Footman] ** Urban Malmberg (bass) [Harlequin] ** Josef Protschka (tenor) [Scaramouche] ** Kurt Rydl [Truffaldino] ** Hans Sojer [Brighella] ** Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Naiad] ** Helga Müller Molinari [Dryad] ** Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Echo] ** Vienna Philharmonic ** James Levine (conductor)
  • Le Cid

    Episode

    Jules Massenet

    Grace Bumbry [Chimene] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Rodrigue] ** Paul Plishka [Don Diegue] ** Clinton Ingram [Don Arias] ** Theodore Hodges [Don Alonzo] ** Arnold Voketaitis [Le Comte de Gormas] ** Eleanor Bergquist [L'Infante] ** Jake Gardner [Le Roi] ** Peter Lightfoot [l'Envoye Maure] ** John Adams [St. Jacques] ** Byrne Camp Chorale ** Opera Orchestra of New York ** Eve Queler (conductor)
  • Louise

    Episode

    Gustave Charpentier

    Beverly Sills (soprano) [Louise] ** Nicolai Gedda [Julien] ** Mignon Dunn [La mère] ** José van Dam (baritone) [La père] ** Éliane Lublin [Irma] ** Christiane Chateau [Camille] ** Sonia Nigoghossian [Élise] ** Marie Bertola [Marguerite] ** Martine Surais [Gertrude] ** Claude Vierne [La première] ** Carla Rutili [Madeleine] ** Mireille Laurent [L'apprentie] ** Elya Weismann [Blanche] ** Maria Mella [Suzanne] ** Martyn Hill [Le noctambule] ** Jacques Mars [Le chiffonier] ** Jean-Jacques Doumène [Le bricoleur] ** Chœur et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opera de Paris ** Julius Rudel (conductor)
  • Fierrabras

    Episode

    Franz Schubert

    Robert Holl (bass) [König Karl] ** Karita Mattila (soprano) [Emma] ** Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Roland] ** Peter Hofmann (tenor) [Ogier] ** Jörg Schluckebier [Olivier] ** Rainer Brandstetter [Gui von Burgund] ** Claus Kühbacher [Richard von der Normandie] ** Michael Weber [Gérard von Mondidur] ** Robert Gambill [Eginhard] ** László Polgár [Boland] ** Josef Protschka (tenor) [Fierrabras] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Florinda] ** Brigitte Balleys [Maragond] ** Hartmut Welker [Brutamonte] ** Brigitte Pinter [Eine Jungfrau] ** Arnold Schoenberg Choir [Fränkische und maurische Ritter und Krieger, Emmas Fräuleins, Volk] ** Chamber Orchestra of Europe ** Claudio Abbado (conductor)
  • Roland

    Episode

    Jean-Baptiste Lully

    Nicolas Testé [Roland] ** Anna-Maria Panzarella [Ang!lique] ** Olivier Dumait [Médor] ** Monique Zanetti [Témire] ** Robert Getchell [Astolfe] ** Saomé Haller [La fée principale, Logistille] ** Evgueniy Alexiev [Ziliante ** Demogorgon ** Un suivant d'Angélique] ** Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Un insulaire ** Tersandre] ** Anders. J. Dahlin [Un insulaire ** Un suivant d'Angélique ** Coridon, un pâtre]] ** Marie-Hélène Essade [Un amante contente ** Une suivante d'Angélique ** Une postourelle] ** Delphine Gillot [Une suivante d'Angélique ** Une amante contente, La Gloire] ** Les Talens Lyriques ** Christophe Rousset (conductor)
  • Le Roi Arthus

    Episode

    Ernest Chausson

    Teresa Zylis-Gara [Guenièvre] ** Gino Quilico (baritone) [Arthus] ** Gösta Winbergh (tenor) [Lancelot] ** Annick Massis [Mordred] ** Gérard Friedmann [Lyonnel] ** François Loup [Allan] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Merlin] ** Thierry Dran [Un Laboureur] ** Renè Schirrer [Un Chevalier] ** Alexandre Laitter [Un Ecuyer] ** Michel Focquenoy [Soldat] ** Francis Dudziak [Soldat] ** Renè Schirrer [Soldat] ** Chours de Radio France [Soldat] ** Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique [Chevaliers, Ecuyers, Pages, Bardes, Femmes de la suite de Guenièvre] ** Armin Jordan (conductor)
  • Guglielmo Tell

    Episode

    Gioachino Rossini

    Giorgio Zancanaro [Guglielmo Tell] ** Chris Merritt [Arnoldo] ** Giorgio Surian [Gualtiero] ** Franco de Grandis [Melchthal] ** Amelia Felle [Jemmy] ** Luciana D'Intino [Edwige] ** Vittorio Terranova [Un pescatore] ** Alberto Noli [Leutoldo] ** Luigi Roni [Gessler] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Matilde] ** Ernesto Gavazzi [Rodolfo] ** Ernesto Panariello [Un cacciatore] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Riccardo Muti (conductor)
  • Agrippina

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] ** Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] ** Sunhae Im [Poppea] ** Bejun Mehta [Ottone] ** Marcos Fink [Claudio] ** Neal Davies [Pallante] ** Dominique Visse [Narciso] ** Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo] ** Berlin Academy for Old Music ** René Jacobs (conductor)
  • Tiefland

    Episode

    Eugen d'Albert

    Paul Schöffler [Sebastino] ** Oskar Czerwenka [Tommaso] ** Gré Brouwenstijn [Marta] ** Judith Hellwig [Pepa] ** Ruth Nixa [Antonia] ** Kerttu Metsälä [Rosalia] ** Dodi Protero [Nuri] ** Eberhard Wächter [Moruccio] ** Hans Hopf [Pedro] ** Waldemar Kmentt [Nando] ** Vienna State Opera Chorus ** Vienna Symphony Orchestra ** Rudolf Moralt (conductor)
  • The Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya

    Episode

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Nicolai Ohotnikov [Prince Yury Vsevolodich] ** Yuri Marusin [Prince Vsevolod] ** Galina Gorchakova [Fevroniya] ** Vladimir Galuzin [Grishka Kuter'ma] ** Nikolai Putilin [Feodor Poyarok] ** Olga Korzhenskaya [Page] ** Evgeny Boitsov [Well-off Person] ** Evgeny Fedorov [Well-off Person] ** Mikhail Kit [Gusli Player] ** Nikolai Gassiev [Bear Leader] ** Grigory Karasev [Singing Beggar] ** Bulat Minjilkiev [Bedyay] ** Vladimir Ognovienko (bass) [Burunday] ** Tatiana Kravtsova [Sirin] ** Larissa Diadkova [Alkonost] ** Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburg ** Valery Gergiev
  • Don Giovanni

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Eberhard Wächter [Don Giovanni] ** Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Donna Anna] ** Luigi Alva [Don Ottavio] ** Gottlob Frick [Commendatore/La Statua] ** Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Donna Elvira] ** Giuseppe Taddei [Leporello] ** Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) [Masetto] ** Graziella Sciutti [Zerlina] ** Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra ** Carlo Maria Giulini (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)