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.

  • Zoroastre (Tragédie en musique)

    Episode

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Mark Padmore (haute-contre) [Zoroastre, instituteur des Mages (Zoroaster, founder of the Magi)] ** Nathan Berg (bass) [Abramane, Grand Prêtre d'Ariman (Abramane, High Priest of Ariman)] ** Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [Amélite, héritière présomptive du trône de la Bactriane (presumptive heiress to the throne of Bactria)] ** Anna Maria Panzarella (soprano) [Érinice, princesse du sang des rois de la Bactriane (princess of the blood of kings of Bactria)] ** Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [Zopire, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] ** François Bazola (bass) [Narbanor, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] ** Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Oromasès. roi des Génies (king of the Genii)] ** Stéphanie Révidat (soprano) [Céphie, jeune Bactrienne de la Cour d'Amélite (Bactrian girl of Amélite's court)] ** Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [La Vengeance] ** Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Ariman (voix souterraine)] ** Chœur des Arts Florissants [Jeunes Bactriens et Bactriennes ** Furies ** Esprits des Éléments ** Démons ** Esprits infernaux ** Troupes différentes de peuples (peoples of various natinos) ** Montagnards (mountain dwellers) ** Prêtres (priests)] ** Les Arts Florissants ** William Christie (conductor)
  • 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)
  • Le nozze di Figaro

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Thomas Allen (baritone) [Count Almaviva] ** Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Countess Almaviva] ** Lucia Popp [Susanna] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Figaro] ** Frederica von Stade [Cherubino] ** Jane Berbié (soprano) [Marcellina] ** Kurt Moll [Bartolo] ** Robert Tear (tenor) [Don Basilio] ** Philip Langridge [Don Curzio] ** Yvonne Kenny [Barbarina] ** Giorgio Tadeo (bass) [Antonio] ** Lynda Russell (soprano) [Contadina] ** Anne Mason [Contadina] ** London Opera Chorus ** London Philharmonic Orchestra ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
  • Il trovatore

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Giorgio Zancanaro [Il Conte di Luna] ** Rosalind Plowright [Leonora] ** Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Azucena] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] ** Evgeny Nesterenko [Ferrando] ** Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Ines] ** Walter Gullino [Ruiz] ** Alfredo Giacomotti [Un vecchio zingaro] ** Aldo Verrecchia [Un messo] ** Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Seguaci] ** Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ** Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
  • Don Quichotte

    Episode

    Jules Massenet

    Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) [La belle Dulcinée] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Don Quichotte] ** Alain Fondary [Sancho Pança] ** Isabelle Vernet [Pedro] ** Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Garcias] ** Christian Papis [Rodriguez] ** Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [Juan] ** Jean-Claude Barbier [Le chef des bandits] ** Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse ** Michel Plasson (conductor)
  • Les Huguenots

    Episode

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Ghylaine Raphanel [Marguerite de Valois] ** Françoise Pollet [Valentine] ** Danielle Borst [Urbain] ** Richard Leech (tenor) [Raoul de Nangis] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Le Comte de Nevers] ** Boris Martinovic [Le Comte de Saint-Bris] ** Nicola Ghiuselev [Marcel] ** Jean-Luc Maurette [De Tavannes] ** Christian Jean [De Cossé/Bois Roé/Un Moine] ** Marc Barrard (baritone) [De Thoré] ** Antoine Garcin [De Retz] ** Herve Martin [De Meru/Un Moine/Un Archer] ** Christian Boulay [Maurevert/Un Moine] ** Chours de l'Opéra de Montpellier ** Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier ** Cyril Diederich (conductor)
  • Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria

    Episode

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Dominique Visse [L'Umana Fragilità] ** Michael Schopper [Tempo] ** Martina Bovet [Amore] ** Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) [Fortuna] ** Christoph Pregardien (tenor) [Ulisse] ** Bernarda Fink (alto) [Penelope] ** Christina Högman [Telemaco] ** Martyn Hill [Eumete] ** Jocelyne Taillon [Ericlea] ** Mark Tucker (tenor) [Anfinomo] ** David Thomas [Antinoo] ** Guy de Mey (tenor) [Iro] ** Faridah Subrata [Melanto] ** Jörg Dürgmüller [Eurimaco] ** Olivier Lallouette [Giove] ** Claron McFadden [Giunone] ** Francesca Congiu [Naiadi] ** Elisabeth Scholl [Nereidi] ** Concerto Vocale ** René Jacobs (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)
  • 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)