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.

  • Lucia di Lammermoor

    Episode

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Lucia] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Edgardo] ** Sherill Milnes [Enrico] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Raimondo] ** Ryland Davies [Arturo] ** Huguette Tourangeau [Alisa] ** Pier Francesco Poli [Normanno] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Richard Bonynge (conductor)
  • Siegfried

    Episode

    Richard Wagner

    Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) [Siegfried] ** Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Brünnhilde] ** Hans Hotter (baritone) [Der Wanderer] ** Gerhard Stolze [Mime] ** Gustav Neidlinger [Alberich] ** Kurt Böhme [Fafner] ** Marga Höffgen [Erda] ** Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Der Waldvogel] ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
  • Die Entführung aus dem Serail

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Edita Gruberova [Konstanze] ** Kathleen Battle [Blonde] ** Gösta Winbergh [Belmonte] ** Heinz Zednik [Pedrillo] ** Martti Talvela [Osmin] ** Will Quadflieg [Selim] ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
  • Beatrice di Tenda

    Episode

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Edita Gruberova [Beatrice di Tenda] ** Vesselina Kasarova [Agnese] ** Igor Morosow [Filippo Maria Visconti] ** Don Bernardini [Orombello] ** Branko Robinsak [Anichino] ** Daniel Sumegi [Rizzardo] ** Wiener Jeunesse-Chor ** ORF-Symphonieorchester ** Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)
  • Motezuma

    Episode

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vito Priante [Motezuma] ** Marijana Mijanovic [Mitrena] ** Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) [Teutile] ** Maite Beaumont [Fernando] ** Romina Basso [Ramiro] ** Inga Kalna [Asprano] ** Il Complesso Barocco ** Alan Curtis (conductor)
  • Khovanshchina

    Episode

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Aage Haugland (bass) ** Vladimir Atlantov [Prince Andrei Khovansky] ** Vladimir Popov [Prince Vasili Golitsyn] ** Anatoly Kotcherga (bass) ** Paata Burchuladze [Dosifei] ** Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marfa] ** Brigitte Poschner-Klebel (soprano) ** Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Scribe] ** Joanna Borowska [Emma] ** Wilfried Gahmlich [Kuzka] ** Peter Köves [Strelyets] ** Goran Simic [Strelyets] ** Peter Köves [Varsonofiev] ** Bojidar Nikolov (tenor) ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bratislava ** Vienna Boys Choir ** Vienna State Opera Orchestra ** Claudio Abbado (conductor)
  • Les Troyens

    Episode

    Hector Berlioz

    Jon Vickers [Enée] ** Josephine Veasey [Didon] ** Berit Lindholm (soprano) [Cassandre] ** Peter Glossop [Chorèbe] ** Heather Begg [Anna] ** Roger Soyer [Narbal] ** Anthony Raffell [Panthée] ** Anne Howells [Ascagne] ** Ian Partridge [Poète tyrien] ** Pierre Thau [Priamus] ** Elizabeth Bainbridge [Hécube] ** Maldwyn Davies (tenor) [Hylas] ** Raimund Herincx [Sentinelle] ** Denis Wicks [Sentinelle] ** David Lennox [Hélénus] ** Wandsworth Boys' Choir ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
  • La Traviata

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Ileana Cotrubas [Violetta Valéry] ** Stefania Malagú [Flora Bervoix] ** Helena Jungwirth [Annina] ** Plácido Domingo [Alfredo Germont] ** Sherrill Milnes [Giorgio Germont] ** Walter Gullino [Gastone ** Bruno Grella [Barone Douphol] ** Alfredo Giacomotti [Marchese d'Obigny] ** Giovanni Foiani [Dottor Grenvil] ** Paul Friess [Flora's servant] ** Paul Winter [Messenger] ** Bavarian State Opera Chorus [Lady and gentlemen friends of Violetta & Flora, servants of Violetta & Flora, maskers] ** Bavarian State Opera Orchestra ** Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
  • Mefistofele

    Episode

    Arrigo Boito

    Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Mefistofele] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Faust] ** Mirella Freni (soprano) [Margherita] ** Nucci Condò [Marta] ** Piero de Palma (tenor) [Wagner] ** Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Elena] ** Alan Jones [Pantalis] ** Robin Leggate [Nereo] ** London Opera Chorus ** Trinity Boys' Choir ** National Philharmonic Orchestra ** Oliviero de Fabritiis (conductor)
  • Die Frau ohne Schatten

    Episode

    Richard Strauss

    Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Der Kaiser] ** Julia Varady (soprano) [Die Kaiserin] ** Reinhild Runkel [Die Amme] ** Albert Dohmen [Der Geisterbote] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Barak, der Färber] ** Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Baraks Frau] ** Sumi Jo [Die Stimme des Falken] ** Robert Gambill [Die Erscheinung eines Jünglings] ** Alzbieta Ardam [Eine Stimme von oben] ** Eva Lind [Der Hüter der Schwelle] ** Gottfried Hornik (bass) [Der Einäugige] ** Hans Franzen [Der Einarmige] ** Wilfried Gahmlich [Der Bucklige] ** Vienna Boys Choir ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Sir Georg Solti (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)
  • Pénélope

    Episode

    Gabriel Fauré

    Jessye Norman (soprano) [Pénélope] ** Jocelyne Taillon [Euryclée] ** Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Alkandre] ** Christine Barbaux (soprano) [Phylo] ** Danielle Borst [Lydie] ** Michelle Command [Mélantho] ** Norma Lerer [Cléone] ** Alain Vanzo [Ulysse] ** Jean Dupouy [Antinoüs] ** Paul Guigue [Ctésippe] ** Gérard Friedmann [Léodès] ** Philippe Huttenlocher [Eurymaque] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Eumée] ** François Le Roux [Pisandre] ** Ensemble Vocal Jean LaForge ** Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo ** Charles Dutoit (conductor)