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

Werther

August 31, 2026

Jules Massenet

Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Werther] ** Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Charlotte] ** Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Albert] ** Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Sophie] ** Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Bailli] ** Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Schmidt] ** Jean-Marie Fremeau [Johann Faust] ** Pierre Dupont [Brühlmann] ** Sophie Boulanger [Kätchen] ** James Savage-Hanford [Hans] ** Kirsty Gifford [Gretel] ** Christopher Waine [Karl] ** Sally Cannon [Clara] ** Joel Gunger [Max] ** Sarah Baillie [Fritz] ** Tiffin Children's Choir [Les Enfants] ** London Symphony Orchestra ** Antonio Pappano (conductor)

  • Andrea Chénier

    Episode

    Umberto Giordano

    José Carreras (tenor) [Andrea Chénier] ** Eva Marton [Maddalena di Coigny] ** Giorgio Zancanaro [Carlo Gerard] ** Tamara Takács [La Contessa di Coigny] ** Tullio Pane [L'Incredibile] ** Franco Federici [Jean-Antoine Roucher] ** Gábor Vághelyi [Pietro Fleville] ** Klára Takács [Bersi] ** Istvan Rozsos [L'Abate] ** József Gregor [Mathieu] ** Éva Farkas [La Vecchia] ** Kázmér Sárkány [Dumas] ** Tamás Bátor [Antoine Fouquier-Tinville] ** János Tóth [Schmidt] ** József Moldvai [Maestro di Casa] ** Chorus of the Hungarian State Radio and Television ** Children's Choir of the Hungarian State Opera ** Hungarian State Orchestra ** Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)

  • Catone in Utica

    Episode

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Cecilia Gasdia [Cesare] ** Marilyn Schmiege [Marzia] ** Susanna Rigacci [Arbace] ** Margarita Zimmermann [Emilia] ** Lucrezia Lendi [Fulvio] ** Ernesto Palacio [Catone] ** I Solist Veneti ** Claudio Scimione (conductor)

  • 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)

  • Agrippina

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Sally Bradshaw [Agrippina] ** Wendy Hill [Nerone] ** Lisa Saffer [Poppea] ** Nicholas Isherwood [Claudio] ** Drew Minter [Ottone] ** Michael Dean [Pallante] ** Ralf Popken [Narciso] ** Béla Szilágyi [Lesbo] ** Gloria Banditelli [Giunone] ** Capella Savaria ** Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

  • Il turco in Italia

    Episode

    Gioachino Rossini

    Michele Pertusi [Selim] ** Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Donna Fiorilla] ** Alessandro Corbelli [Don Geronio] ** Ramon Vargas [Don Narciso] ** Roberto de Candia (baritone) [Poeta] ** Laura Polverelli [Zaida] ** Francesco Piccoli [Albazar] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

  • La Rondine

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Magda] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ruggero] ** Mariana Nicolesco [Lisette] ** David Rendall [Prunier] ** Leo Nucci (baritone) [Rambaldo] ** Lillian Watson [Yvette] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** London Symphony Orchestra ** Lorin Maazel (conductor)