Opera Encore on VivaLaVoce

Upcoming VivaLaVoce Opera Encore Broadcasts

February 1
Johann Strauss, Jr.: Die Fledermaus

Wolfgang Brendel [Gabriel von Eisenstein] | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Rosalinde] | Tom Krause [Frank] | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Prinz Orlofsky] | Richard Leech (tenor) [Alfred] | Olaf Bär (baritone) [Dr. Falke] | Anton Wendler [Dr. Blind] | Edita Gruberova [Adele] | Karin Göttling [Ida] | Otto Schenk [Frosch] | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | André Previn (conductor)

February 2
Jules Massenet: Manon

Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Manon] | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Le Chevalier Des Grieux] | Earle Patriarco [Lescaut] | José van Dam (baritone) [Le Comte des Grieux] | Gilles Ragon [Guillot de Morfontaine] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [De Brétigny] | Anna Maria Panzarella [Poussette] | Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano) [Javotte] | Susanne Schimmack [Rosette] | Nicolas Cavalllier [L'hôtelier] | Orchestre Symphonique et Chours de la Monnaie | Antonio Pappano (conductor)

February 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

Yelda Kodalli [Konstanze] | Paul Groves [Belmonte] | Désirée Rancatore [Blonde] | Peter Rose [Osmin] | Lynton Atkinson [Pedrillo] | Oliver Tolnas [Bassa Selim] | Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus | Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

February 4
Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Brünnhilde] | Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) [Siegfried] | Gustav Neidlinger [Alberich] | Gottlieb Frick (bass) [Hagen] | Claire Watson [Gutrune] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Gunther] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Waltraute] | Lucia Popp [Woglinde] | Della Jones [Wellgunde] | Maureen Guy [Flosshilde] | Helen Watts (alto) [Erste Norn] | Grace Hoffman [Zweite Norn] | Anita Välkki [Dritte Norn] | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

February 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte (Women are like that)

Soile Isokosi [Fiordlilgi] | Monica Groop [Dorabella] | Nancy Argenta [Despina] | Markus Schäfer [Ferrando] | Per Vollestad [Guglielmo] | Huub Claessens [Don Alfonso] | La Petite Band Orchestra and Chorus | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

February 6
Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula

Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Amina] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Elvino] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Rodolfo] | Isobel Buchanan [Lisa] | John Tomlinson [Alessio] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Notaro] | Della Jones [Teresa] | London Opera Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Bonynge (conductor)

February 7
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Il Rè Pastore (The Shepherd King)

Johannette Zomer [Aminta] | Francine van der Heyden [Elisa] | Marcel Reijans [Agenore] | Alexei Grigorev [Alessandro] | Claudia Patacca [Tamiri] | Musica ad Rhenum | Jed Wentz (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Il Sogno di Scipione (Scipio's Dream)

Claron McFadden [Fortuna] | Claudia Patacca [Costanza] | François Soons [Scipione] | Terence Mierau [Publio] | Marcel Reijans [Emilio] | Francine van der Heyden [La Licenza] | Musica ad Rhenum | Jed Wentz (conductor)

February 8
Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuletti e i Montecchi

Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Romeo] | Edita Gruberova [Giulietta] | Gwynne Howell [Capellio] | Dano Raffanti [Tebaldo] | John Tomlinson [Lorenzo] | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Riccardo Muti (conductor)

February 9
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Finta Semplice (The Feigned Simpleton)

Helen Donath [Rosina] | Robert Holl [Don Cassandro] | Anthony Rolfe-Johnson [Don Polidoro] | Teresa Berganza [Giacinta] | Jutta-Renate Ihloff [Ninetta] | Thomas Moser [Fracasso] | Robert Lloyd [Simone] | Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg | Leopold Hager (conductor)

February 10
Charles Gounod: Faust

Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Marguerite] | Francisco Araiza [Faust] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Méphistophélès] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Valentin] | Pamela Coburn [Siébel] | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marthe] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Wagner] | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

February 11
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo, rè di Creta (Idomeneo, King of Crete)

Nicolai Gedda [Idomeneo] | Adolf Dollapozza [Idamante] | Anneliese Rothenberger [Ilia] | Edda Moser [Elettra] | Peter Schreier [Arbace] | Eberhard Büchner [Gran Sacerdote] | Theo Adam [La Voce] | Günther Leib [Sacerdote] | Leipzig Radio Chorus | Dresden State Orchestra | Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (conductor)

February 12
Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Orfeo] | Julianne Baird [Euridice] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [La Musica] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Messaggiera] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Ninfa] | Mary Nichols [Speranza] | John Tomlinson [Caronte/Sprito III] | Diana Montague (alto) [Proserpina] | Willard White [Plutone] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Pastore I/Eco] | Nigel Robson [Pastore II/Apollo] | Michael Chance (alto) [Pastore III] | Simon Birchall (bass) [Pastore IV] | Howard Milner [Spirito I] | Nicolas Robertson [Spirito II] | The Monteverdi Choir [Coro di ninfe e pastori; Coro di spiriti] | The English Baroque Soloists | His Majestie's Sagbutts & Cornetts | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

February 13
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Zaide

Sandrine Piau [Zaide] | Max Ciolek [Gomatz] | Klaus Mertens [Allazim] | Paul Agnew [Sultan Soliman] | Klaus Mertens [Osmin] | Gregor Frenkel Frank [Narrator] | Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra | Ton Koopman (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)

Sylvia Geszty [Madame Herz] | Rosemarie Rönisch [Mademoiselle Silberklang] | Peter Schreier [Monsieur Vogelsang] | Hermann Christian Polster [Buff] | Berlin Chamber Orchestra | Helmut Koch (conductor)

February 14
Antonio Sacchini: Œdipe à Colone

François Loup [Œdipe] | Nathalie Paulin [Antigone] | Robert Getchell [Polynice] | Tony Boutté [Thésée] | Kirsten Blaise [Eriphile] | Kara Morgan [Une Athénienne] | Jonathan Kimple [Grand Prêtre] | Jason Kaminski [Un Hérault] | Philip Cave [Un Coryphée] | Opera Lafayette Orchestra and Chorus | Ryan Brown (conductor)

February 15
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lucio Silla

Anthony Rolfe-Johnson [Lucio Silla] | Lella Cuberli [Giunia] | Anne Murray [Cecilio] | Britt-Marie Aruhn [Cinna] | Christine Barbaux [Celia] | Ad van Baasbank [Aufidio] | Orchestre et Chœurs du Théatre Royal de la Monnaie | Sylvain Cambreling (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus

John Dickie [Oebalus, King of Lacedemonia] | Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger [Melia] | Arno Raunig [Hyacinthus] | Ralf Popken [Apollo] | Axel Köhler [Zephyrus] | Leipzig Radio Chorus | Leipzig Radio Orchestra | Max Pommer (conductor)

February 16
Giuseppe Verdi: Stiffelio

José Carreras (tenor) [Stiffelio] | Sylvia Sass [Lina] | Matteo Manuguerra (baritone) [Stankar] | Wladimiro Ganzarolli [Jorg] | Ezio di Cesare [Raffaele] | Maria Venuti [Dorotea] | Edda Moser [Federico] | ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Vienna | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)

February 17
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Barbara Hendricks [Pamina] | Jerry Hadley [Tamino] | Thomas Allen [Papageno] | Robert Lloyd [Sarastro] | June Anderson [Queen of the Night] | Ulrike Steinsky [Papagena] | Helmut Wildhaber [Monostasos] | Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

February 18
Giacomo Puccini: La bohème

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Rodolfo] | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Mimì] | Elizabeth Harwood (soprano) [Musetta] | Gianni Maffeo (baritone) [Schaunard] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Colline] | Rolando Panerai (baritone) [Marcello] | Gernot Pietsch (tenor) [Parpignol] | Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Benoît; Alcindoro] | Hans-Dieter Appelt (bass) [Sergente dei Doganieri] | Hans-Dietrich Pohl (bass) [Doganiere] | Schöneberger Sängerknaben [Urchins, students, children] | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin [Street vendors, men, women, milkmaids, peasants] | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

February 19
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Finta Giardiniera (The Pretend Garden-Maid)

Ugo Benelli [Il Podestà] | Joanna Kozlowska [Sandrina] | Marek Torzewski [Belfiore] | Malvina Major [Arminda] | Lani Poulson [Ramiro] | Elzbieta Szmtka [Serpetta] | Russel Smythe [Nardo] | Orchestre du Théatre Royal de la Monnaie | Sylvain Cambreling (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten (Thamos, King of Egypt)

Charlotte Lehmann (soprano) | Rose Scheible (alto) | Oly Pfaff (tenor) | Bruce Abel (bass) | Württemberg Chamber Chorus and Orchestra | Jörg Faerber (conductor)

February 20
Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande

Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Mélisande] | Didier Henry [Pelléas] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Golaud] | Pierre Thau [Arkel] | Claudine Carlson [Geneviève] | Françoise Golfier [Yniold] | Phillip Ens [Un berger; Un médecin] | Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal [Marins en coulisse, servantes mendiants] | Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Charles Dutoit (conductor)

February 21
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito [The Clemency of Titus]

André Post [Tito Vespasiano] | Claudia Patacca [Vitellia] | Francine van der Heyden [Servilia] | Cécile van de Sant [Sesto] | Nicola Wemyss [Annio] | Marc Pantus [Publio] | Voal Ensmeble Cocu | Musica ad Rhenum | Jed Wentz (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne

Dagmar Schellenberger [Bastienne] | Ralph Eschrig [Bastien] | René Pape [Colas] | Leipzig Radio Orchestra | Max Pommer (conductor)

February 22
Gioacchino Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri

Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Mustafà] | Patrizia Pace [Elvira] | Anna Gonda [Zulma] | Alessandro Corbelli [Haly] | Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Lindoro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Isabella] | Enzo Dara [Taddeo] | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)

February 23
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ascanio in Alba

Maaike Beekman [Ascanio] | Claudia Patacca [Venere] | Nicola Wemyss [Silvia] | Tom Allen [Aceste] | Claron McFadden [Fauno]

February 24
Gaetano Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore

Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) [Adina] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Nemorino] | Sir Geraint Evans [Dulcamara] | Ingvar Wixell [Belcore] | Lillian Watson [Gianetta] | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | John Pritchard (conductor)

February 25
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Huub Claessens [Il Conte di Almaviva] | Patrizia Biccire [La Contessa] | Werner van Mechelen [Figaro] | Christiane Oelze [Susanna] | Monika Groop [Cherubino] | Béatrice Cramoix [Marzellina] | Harry van der Kamp [Bartolo] | Yves Saelens [Basilio] | Philip Defrancq [Don Curzio] | Jean-Guy Devienne [Antonio] | Marie Kuijken [Barbarina] | Chamber Choir of Namur | La Petite Band | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

February 26
George Frideric Handel: Giustino

Michael Chance (alto) [Giustino] | Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) [Arianna] | Dawn Kotoski [Anastasio] | Juliana Gondek [Fortuna] | Dean Ely [Polidarte] | Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano) [Leocasta] | Mark Padmore (tenor) [Vitaliano] | Drew Minter [Amanzio] | Dean Ely [Voce di Dentro] | kammerchor cantamus halle | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

February 27
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni

Werner van Mechelen [Don Giovanni] | Huub Claessens [Leporello] | Elena Vink [Donna Anna] | Markus Schäfer [Don Ottavio] | Nancy Argenta [Zerlina] | Nancy de Vries [Masetto] | Christina Högman [Donna Elvira] | Harry van der Kamp [Il Commendatore] | Collegiumj Compostellanum | La Petite Band | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

February 28
Leos Janácek: Katya Kabanova

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)

February 29
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto (Mitridate, King of Pontus)

Marcel Reijans [Mitridate] | Francine van der Heyden [Aspasia] | Marije van Stralen [Sifare] | Johannette Zomer [Ismeme] | Cécile van de Sant [Farnace] | Young-Hee Kim [Arbate] | Alexei Grigorev [Marzio] | Musica ad Rhenum | Jed Wentz (conductor)