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.

  • La Cenerentola

    Episode

    Gioachino Rossini

    Agnes Baltsa [Cenerentola (Angiolina)] ** Francisco Araiza [Don Ramiro] ** Simone Alaimo [Dandini] ** Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Magnifico] ** Carol Malone [Clorinda] ** Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Tisbe] ** John Del Carlo [Alidoro] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ** Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
  • Der Traumgörge

    Episode

    Alexander von Zemlinsky

    David Kuebler [Görge] ** Patricia Racette [Gertraud] ** Iride Martinez [Grete] ** Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Hans] ** Zelotes Edmund Toliver [Der Müller] ** Julian Rodescu [Der Pastor] ** Susan Anthony [Die Prinzessin] ** Machiko Obata [Eine Traumstimme] ** Michael Volle [Kaspar] ** Lothar Odinius [Züngl] ** Zelotes Edmund Toliver [Mathes] ** Natalie Karl [Marei] ** John C. Pierce [Ein Wirt] ** Machiko Obata [Eine Wirtin] ** Julian Rodescu [Ein Bauer] ** Opernchor der Hochschule für Musik Köln [Burschen und Mädchen, Dorfleute, Traumstimmen, Bauern, Kinder] ** Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker ** James Conlon (conductor)
  • 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)
  • Amadigi

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Nathalie Stutzmann [Amadigi di Gaula] ** Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Oriana] ** Eiddwen Harrhy [Melissa] ** Bernarda Fink (alto) [Dardano] ** Bertin Pascal [Orgando] ** Les musiciens du Louvre ** Marc Minkowski (conductor)
  • Schwanda der Dudelsachpfeifer

    Episode

    Jaromír Weinberger

    Hermann Prey (baritone) [Schwanda] ** Lucia Popp [Dorotka] ** Siegfried Jerusalem [Babinsky] ** Gwendolyn Killebrew [Königin] ** Alexander Malta (bass) [Magier] ** Siegmund Nimsgern [Teufel] ** Karl Kreile [Richter] ** Albert Gassner [Scharfrichter] ** Heinrich Weber [Famulus] ** Georg Baumgartner [Hauptmann] ** Anton Rosner [Landsknecht] ** Peter Lika (baritone) [Landsknecht] ** Münchner Rundfunkorchester ** Bavarian Radio Chorus ** Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
  • Carmen

    Episode

    Georges Bizet

    Victoria de los Angeles [Carmen] ** Nicolai Gedda [Don José] ** Janine Micheau [Micaëla] ** Ernest Blanc [Escamillo] ** Denise Monteil [Frasquita] ** Marcelle Croisier [Mercédès] ** Monique Linval [Mercédès] ** Jean-Christophe Benoit [Le Dancaïr] ** Michel Hamel [Le Remendado] ** Bernard Plantey [Moralès] ** Xavier Depraz [Zuniga] ** Chours de la Radiodiffusion Française ** Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française ** Petits Chanteurs de Versailles ** Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
  • Katya Kabanova

    Episode

    Leoš Janáček

    Dalibor Jedlicka [Savel P. Dikoi] ** Petr Dvorsky [Boris Grigorievich] ** Nadezda Kniplova [Marpha I. Kabanova] ** Vladimir Krejcik [Tikhon I. Kabanov] ** Elisabeth Söderström [Katya Kabanova] ** Zdenek Svehla [Vania Kudriash] ** Libuse Marova [Varvara] ** Jaroslav Soucek (baritone) [Kuligin] ** Jitka Pavlova [Glasha] ** Gertrude Jahn [Feklusha] ** Adolf Tomaschek [Chodec] ** Hedwig Dreschler [Zena] ** Vienna State Opera Chorus [Town-dwellers] ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
  • Das Rheingold

    Episode

    Richard Wagner

    James Morris (bass) [Wotan] ** Siegfried Lorenz [Donner] ** Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) ** Siegfried Jerusalem [Loge] ** Ekkehard Wlaschiha [Alberich] ** Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Mime] ** Kurt Moll [Fasolt] ** Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Fafner] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Fricka] ** Mari Anne Häggander [Freia] ** Birgitta Svendén [Erda] ** Hei-Kyung Hong [Woglinde] ** Diane Kesling [Wellgunde] ** Meredith Parsons [Flosshilde] ** The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ** James Levine (conductor)
  • Prince Igor

    Episode

    Alexander Borodin

    Constantin Chekerliiksi [Igor Svastoslavich] ** Boris Christoff [Prince Galitsky ** Khan Konchak] ** Todor Todorov [Vladimir] ** Cyril Dulguerov [Eroshka] ** Alexei Milkovsky [Skula] ** Luben Mikhailov [Lovlur] ** Julia Wiener [Yaroslavna] ** Reni Penkova [Konchakovna] ** Radka Gaeva [Nurse] ** Liliana Bareva [Polovtsian Girl] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia ** Jerzy Semkov (conductor)
  • Scylla et Glaucus

    Episode

    Jean-Marie Leclair

    Donna Brown [Scylla] ** Howard Crook (tenor) [Glaucus] ** Rachel Yakar (soprano) [Circé] ** Catherine Dubosc (soprano) [Dorine] ** Françoise Golfier [L'Amour] ** Agnes Mellon [Vénus] ** Renè Schirrer [Licas] ** Elisabeth Vidal (soprano) [Témire] ** Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor) [Un Propetide] ** Nicolas Robertson [Un Propetide] ** Philip Salmon [Un berger] ** Richard Stuart (baritone) [Un Silvain] ** Francis Dudziak [Un Silvain] ** Francis Dudziak [Hécate] ** The Monteverdi Choir ** The English Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
  • Ercole sul Termodonte

    Episode

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivica Genaux [Antiope] ** Joyce DiDonato [Ippolita] ** Patrizia Ciofi [Orizia] ** Diana Damrau [Martesia] ** Rolando Villazón [Ercole] ** Romina Basso [Teseo] ** Philippe Jaroussky [Alceste] ** Topi Lehtipuu [Telamone] ** Coro da Camera "Santa Cecilia" di Borgo San Lorenzo ** Europa Galante ** Fabio Biondi (conductor)
  • La Wally

    Episode

    Alfredo Catalani

    Eva Marton [Wally] ** Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Stromminger] ** Alan Titus [Vincenzo Gellner] ** Francisco Araiza [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] ** Birgit Calm [Afra] ** Julie Kaufmann [Walter] ** Michele Pertusi [Il Pedone] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus ** Münchner Rundfunkorchester ** Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)