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.

  • Anna Bolena

    Episode

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Anna Bolena] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Enrico VIII] ** Jerry Hadley (tenor) [Lord Riccardo Percy] ** Susanne Mentzer [Giovanna Seymour] ** Bernadette Manca di Nissa [Smeton] ** Giorgio Surian [Lord Rochefort] ** Ernesto Gavazzi [Sir Hervey] ** Chorus of the Welsh National Opera [Cortigiani, dame, paggi, scudieri, cacciatori, sceriffi, guardie] ** Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera ** Richard Bonynge (conductor)
  • Idomeneo

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Idomeneo] ** Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Idamante] ** Sylvia McNair [Ilia] ** Hillevi Martinpelto [Elettra] ** Nigel Robson [Arbace] ** Glenn Winslade [Gran Sacerdote di Nettuno] ** Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [La Voce] ** Angela Kazimierczuk [Cretesa 1] ** Jonathan Peter Kenny [Cretesa 2] ** Philip Salmon [Troiane 1] ** Stephen Charlesworth [Troiane 2] ** The Monteverdi Choir ** The English Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
  • The Two Widows

    Episode

    Bedřich Smetana

    Jana Jonasova (soprano) [Karolina Zaleska] ** Marcela Machotkova [Anezka Miletinska] ** Miroslav Svejda (tenor) [Ladislav Podhajsky] ** Dalibor Jedlicka [Mumlal] ** Alfred Hampel (tenor) [Tonik] ** Daniela Sounova [Lidunka] ** Prague Radio Chorus ** Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra ** Jaroslav Krombholc (conductor)
  • Andrea Chénier

    Episode

    Umberto Giordano

    José Carreras (tenor) [Andrea Chénier] ** Eva Marton [Maddalena di Coigny] ** Giorgio Zancanaro [Carlo Gerard] ** Tamara Takács [La Contessa di Coigny] ** Tullio Pane [L'Incredibile] ** Franco Federici [Jean-Antoine Roucher] ** Gábor Vághelyi [Pietro Fleville] ** Klára Takács [Bersi] ** Istvan Rozsos [L'Abate] ** József Gregor [Mathieu] ** Éva Farkas [La Vecchia] ** Kázmér Sárkány [Dumas] ** Tamás Bátor [Antoine Fouquier-Tinville] ** János Tóth [Schmidt] ** József Moldvai [Maestro di Casa] ** Chorus of the Hungarian State Radio and Television ** Children's Choir of the Hungarian State Opera ** Hungarian State Orchestra ** Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)
  • Boris Godunov

    Episode

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Alexander Vedernikov [Boris Godunov] ** Glafira Koroleva [Feodor] ** Elena Shkolnikova [Xenia] ** Nina Grigorieva [Nurse] ** Andrei Sokolov [Shuisky] ** Alexander Voroshilo [Shchelkalov] ** Vladimir Matorin (bass) [Pimen] ** Vladisolav Piavko [Grigory/Dmitri] ** Irina Arkhipova [Marina Mnishek] ** Yuri Masurok [Rangoni] ** Artur Eisen [Varlaam] ** Anatoli Mishutin [Missail] ** Ludmila Simonova [Hostess] ** Janis Sporgis [Simpleton] ** Vladimir Filippov [Nikitich] ** Nikolaï Nizinenko [Mitiukha] ** Yuri Elnikov [Boyar/Khrushchov/Lavitsky] ** Vladimir Silaev [Chernikovsky] ** USSR TV and Radio Large Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ** Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)
  • Genoveva

    Episode

    Robert Schumann

    Harald Stamm [Hidulfus ** Alan Titus [Siegfried] ** Julia Faulkner [Genoveva] ** Keith Lewis [Golo] ** Renate Behle [Margaretha] ** Carl Schultz [Drago] ** Johann Tilli [Balthasar] ** Hamburg Opera Chorus ** Hamburg Philharmonic ** Gerd Albrecht (conductor)
  • Maometto Secondo

    Episode

    Gioachino Rossini

    June Anderson [Anna Erisso] ** Margarita Zimmermann [Calbo] ** Ernesto Palacio [Paolo Erisso] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Maometto] ** Laurence Dale [Condulmiero ** Selimo] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Claudio Scimione (conductor)
  • Ezio

    Episode

    Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Max Emanuel Cencic [Emperor Valentiniano III] ** Ann Hallenberg [Fulvia] ** Sonia Prina [Ezio] ** Mayuko Karasawa [Onoria] ** Topi Lehtipuu [Massimo] ** Julian Prégardien [Varo] ** Il Complesso Barocco ** Alan Curtis (conductor)
  • Samson et Dalila

    Episode

    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Samson] ** Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) [Dalila] ** Alain Fondary [Le Grand-Prêtre de Dagon] ** Jean-Philippe Courtis [Abimelech] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Un Vieillard Hébreu] ** Christian Papis [Un Messager Philistin] ** Daniel Galvez Vallejo [Premier Philistin] ** François Harismendy [Deuxiéme Philistin] ** Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille ** Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
  • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

    Episode

    Richard Wagner

    James King [Walther von Stolzing] ** Pilar Lorengar [Eva] ** Shirley Love [Magdalene] ** Loren Driscoll [David] ** Ezio Flagello [Pogner] ** Benno Kusche [Beckmesser] ** Theo Adam [Hans Sachs] ** Charles Anthony [Vogelgesang] ** Robert Goodloe [Nachtigall] ** Donald Gramm [Kothner] ** Russell Christopher [Ortel] ** Robert Schmorr [Zorn] ** Gabor Carelli [Moser] ** Rod MacWherter [Eisslinger] ** Louis Sgarro [Foltz] ** James Morris [Schwarz] ** Clifford Harvuot [Night Watchman] ** Metropolitan Opera ** Thomas Schippers (conductor)
  • La fille du régiment

    Episode

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Marie] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Tonio] ** Monica Sinclair [La marquise de Berkenfield] ** Jules Bruyère [Hortensius] ** Spiro Malas [Sulpice] ** Eric Garrett [Le caporal] ** Edith Coates [La duchesse de Crakentorp] ** Alan Jones [Un paysan] ** Omar Gorde [Un notaire] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Richard Bonynge (conductor)
  • Falstaff

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Giuseppe Taddei [Sir John Falstaff] ** Rolando Panerai [Ford] ** Francisco Araiza [Fenton] ** Piero de Palma [Dr. Cajus] ** Heinz Zednik [Bardolfo] ** Federico Davia [Pistola] ** Raina Kabaivanska [Mrs. Alice Ford] ** Janet Perry [Nannetta] ** Trudeliese Schmidt [Mrs. Meg Page] ** Christa Ludwig [Mrs. Quickly] ** Vienna State Opera Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)