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.

Current Episode

Turandot

July 16, 2026

Giacomo Puccini

Joan Sutherland [Turandot] ** Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] ** Montserrat Caballé [Liù] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov [Timur] ** Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] ** Tom Krause [Ping] ** Pier Francesco Poli [Pang ** Il Principe di Persia] ** Piero de Palma [Pong] ** Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] ** John Alldis Choir ** Wandsworth Boys' Choir ** London Philharmonic Orchestra ** Zubin Mehta (conductor)

  • Farnace

    Episode

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Max Emanuel Cencic [Farnace] ** Ruxandra Donose [Tamiri] ** Mary Ellen Nesi [Berenice] ** Ann Hallenberg [Selinda] ** Karina Gauvin [Gilade] ** Daniel Behle [Pompeo] ** Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Aquilio] ** Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano ** I Barocchisti ** Diego Fasolis (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)

  • La traviata

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Anna Netrebko (soprano) [Violetta Valéry] ** Rolando Villazón [Alfredo Germont] ** Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Giorgio Germont] ** Helene Schneiderman [Flora Bervoix] ** Diane Pilcher [Annina] ** Paul Gay [Barone Douphol] ** Herman Wallén [Marchese d'Obigny] ** Luigi Roni [Dottore Grenvil] ** Dritan Luca [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] ** Wolfram Igor Derntl [Domestico di Flora] ** Friedrich Springer [Commissionario] ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Carlo Rizzi (conductor)