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.

  • Faust

    Episode

    Charles Gounod

    Richard Leech (tenor) [Le docteur Faust] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Marguerite] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Méphistophélès] ** Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Valentin] ** Martine Mahé (mezzo-soprano) [Siébel] ** Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Marthe] ** Marc Barrard (baritone) [Wagner] ** Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse ** Michel Plasson (conductor)
  • Tamerlano

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Derek Ragin [Tamerlan] ** Nigel Robson [Bajazet] ** Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Asteria] ** Michael Chance (alto) [Andronicus] ** Jane Findlay [Irène] ** Renè Schirrer [Léon] ** The English Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
  • Manon Lescaut

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Mirella Freni (soprano) [Manon Lescaut] ** Renato Bruson [Lescaut] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Il Cavaliere Renato Des Grieux] ** Kurt Rydl [Geronte di Ravoir] ** Robert Gambill [Edmondo] ** George Macpherson [L'Oste] ** John Fryatt [Il Maestro di Ballo] ** Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Un Musico] ** Handel Thomas [Sergente degli Arcieri] ** Mark Curtis [Un Lampionaio] ** John Tomlinson [Un Comandante di Marina] ** Paschal Allen [Un Sergente] ** Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
  • Nabucco

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) [Nabucco] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ismaele] ** Evgeny Nesterenko [Zaccaria] ** Ghena Dimitrova [Abigaille] ** Lucia Valentini Terrani [Fenena] ** Kurt Rydl [Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo] ** Volker Horn [Abdallo] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)