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

Katya Kabanova

July 4, 2022

Leos Janácek

Zdenek Kroupa [Savel P. Dikoi] ** Beno Blachut [Boris Grigorievich] ** Ludmila Komancova [Marpha I. Kabanova] ** Bohumir Vich [Tikhon I. Kabanov] ** Drahomira Tikalova [Katya Kabanova] ** Viktor Koci [Vania Kudriash] ** Ivana Mixova [Varvara] ** Rudolf Zedlicka [Kuligin] ** Eva Hlobilova [Glasha] ** Marcela Lemariova [Feklusha] ** Chorus of the Prague National Theatre [Town-dwellers] ** Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre ** Jaroslav Krombholc (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)

  • Atalanta

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Éva Farkas [Atalanta] ** Éva Bártfai-Barta [Meleagro] ** Éva Lax [Irene] ** János Bándi [Aminta] ** József Gregor [Nicandro] ** László Polgár [Mercury] ** Savaria Vocal Ensemble ** Capella Savaria ** Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

  • Libuse

    Episode

    Bedrich Smetana

    Eva Urbanová [Libuse] ** Vratislav Kriz [Premysl of Stadice] ** Ludek Vele [Chrudos from Otava] ** Jan Markvart [Stahlav from Radbuza] ** Miloslav Podskalsky [Lutobor from Dobroslavsky Chlumec] ** Pavel Cervinka [Radovan from the Stone Bridge] ** Helena Kaupova [Krasava] ** Miroslava Volkova [Radmila] ** Chorus of the Prague National Theatre ** Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre ** Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)