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.

  • Rusalka

    Episode

    Antonín Dvořák

    Renée Fleming [Rusalka] ** Ben Heppner [The Prince] ** Franz Hawlata [The Water goblin (Vodník)] ** Dolora Zajick [Ježibaba] ** Eva Urbanová [The foreign princess (Cizí knezna)] ** Ivan Kusnher [The Gamekeeper (Hajný) ** A Huntsman (Lovec] ** Zdena Kloubová [The Turnspit (Kuchtík)] ** Lívia Aghová [Wood Nymph (Lesní žínky)] ** Dana Buresová [Wood Nymph (Lesní žínky)] ** Hana Minutillo [Wood Nymph (Lesní žínky)] ** The Kühn Mixed Choir [The Prince's entourage, Guests, Water nymphs] ** Czech Philharmonic Orchestra ** Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
  • Eugen Onegin

    Episode

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Rosemarie Lang [Larina] ** Mirella Freni (soprano) [Tatjana] ** Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Olga] ** Ruthild Engert [Filipjewna] ** Thomas Allen (baritone) [Eugen Onegin] ** Neil Shicoff [Lenski] ** Paata Burchuladze [Fürst Gremin] ** Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Triquet] ** Jürgen Hartfiel [Ein Hauptmann] ** Gunter Emmerlich [Saretzki] ** Rundfunkchor Leipzig ** Staatskapelle Dresden ** James Levine (conductor)
  • Giustino

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Michael Chance (alto) [Giustino] ** Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) [Arianna] ** Dawn Kotoski [Anastasio] ** Juliana Gondek [Fortuna] ** Dean Ely [Polidarte] ** Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano) [Leocasta] ** Mark Padmore (tenor) [Vitaliano] ** Drew Minter [Amanzio] ** Dean Ely [Voce di Dentro] ** kammerchor cantamus halle ** Freiburg Baroque Orchestra ** Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
  • 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)
  • La bohème

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Anna Moffo (soprano) ** Richard Tucker (tenor) [Rodolfo] ** Robert Merrill [Marcello] ** Mary Costa [Musetta] ** Giorgio Tozzi [Colline] ** Philip Maero (baritone) [Schaunard] ** Fernando Corena [Benoît] ** Giorgio Onesti [Alcindoro] ** Adelio Zagonara (tenor) ** Flavio Tosin [Doganiere] ** Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus ** Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
  • Iphigénie en Tauride

    Episode

    Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Christine Goerke (soprano) [Iphigénie] ** Rodney Gilfry [Oreste] ** Vinson Cole [Pylade] ** Stephen Salters [Thoas] ** Sharon Baker [First Priestess ** Greek Woman] ** Jayne West [Second Priestess ** Mark Andrew Cleveland [A Scythian] ** Mark Risinger [Minister of Thoas] ** Boston Baroque Chorus [Priestesses, Scythians, Eumenides, and Greeks] ** Boston Baroque Orchestra ** Martin Pearlman (conductor)
  • Götterdämmerung

    Episode

    Richard Wagner

    Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Brünnhilde] ** Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) [Siegfried] ** Gustav Neidlinger [Alberich] ** Gottlieb Frick (bass) [Hagen] ** Claire Watson [Gutrune] ** Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Gunther] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Waltraute] ** Lucia Popp [Woglinde] ** Della Jones [Wellgunde] ** Maureen Guy [Flosshilde] ** Helen Watts (alto) [Erste Norn] ** Grace Hoffman [Zweite Norn] ** Anita Välkki [Dritte Norn] ** Vienna State Opera Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
  • Don Pasquale

    Episode

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Beverly Sills (soprano) [Norina] ** Donald Gramm [Don Pasquale] ** Alan Titus [Dottor Malatesta] ** Alfredo Kraus [Ernesto] ** Henry Newman [Un Notaro] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** London Symphony Orchestra ** Sarah Caldwell (conductor)
  • La Clemenza di Tito

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Tito Vespasiano] ** Julia Varady (soprano) [Vitellia] ** Sylvia McNair [Servilia] ** Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Sesto] ** Catherine Robbin [Annio] ** Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [Publio] ** The Monteverdi Choir ** The English Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
  • Rigoletto

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Il Duca di Mantova] ** Vladimir Chernov [Rigoletto] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Gilda] ** Roberto Scandiuzzi (bass) [Sparafucile] ** Denyce Graves [Maddalena] ** Jane Shaulis [Giovanna] ** Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Il Conte di Monterone] ** Dwayne Croft [Marullo] ** Paul Groves [Borsa Matteo] ** Yannis Yannissis [Il Conte di Ceprano] ** Heidi Grant Murphy [La Contessa di Ceprano] ** Robert Maher [Usciere di corte] ** Elyssa Lindner [Paggio della Duchessa] ** The Metropolitan Opera Chorus [Cavalieri,Dame, Paggi, Alabardieri] ** The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ** James Levine (conductor)
  • L'incoronazione di Dario

    Episode

    Antonio Vivaldi

    John Elwes [Dario] ** Gerard Lesne [Statira] ** Henri Ledroit [Argene] ** Michel Verschaeve [Niceno] ** Isabelle Poulenard [Alinda] ** Agnes Mellon [Oronte] ** Isabelle Poulenard [Arpago] ** Dominique Visse [Flora Bervoix] ** John Elwes [Le Fantôme de Ciro] ** Michel Verschaeve [L'Oracle d'Apollo] ** Ensemble Baroque de Nice ** Gilbert Bezzina (conductor)
  • Les contes d'Hoffmann

    Episode

    Jacques Offenbach

    Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Hoffmann] ** Edita Gruberova [Olympia/Antonia/Giulietta] ** Claudia Eder [Nicklausse/La Muse] ** Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Lindorf] ** Gabriel Bacquier [Coppélius] ** James Morris (bass) [Miracle] ** Justino Diaz [Dapertutto] ** Robert Gambill [Andrès] ** Paul Crook [Cochenille/Pitichinaccio] ** Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Frantz] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [La voix de la mère d'Antonia] ** Robin Leggate [Nathanaël] ** Gérard Friedmann [Spalanzani] ** Urban Malmberg (bass) [Hermann] ** Richard Van Allan [Schlémil] ** Kurt Rydl [Luther] ** Harald Stamm [Crespel] ** Chœurs de Radio France [Esprits invisibles, étudiants, garçons de taverne, invités de Spalanzani, laquais, invitétes de Giulietta] ** Orchestre National de France ** Seiji Ozawa (conductor)