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

Don Giovanni

April 5, 2026

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

William Shimmel [Don Giovanni] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Leporello] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Donna Anna] ** Carol Vaness [Donna Elvira] ** Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Don Ottavio] ** Susanne Mentzer [Zerlina] ** Natale de Carolis [Masetto] ** Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Commendatore/La Statua] ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Riccardo Muti (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)