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.

  • Giulio Cesare

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano) [Giulio Cesare] | Barbara Schlick (soprano) [Cleopatra] | Bernarda Fink (alto) [Cornelia] | Marianne Rørholm (mezzo-soprano) [Sesto] | Derek Lee Ragin (alto) [Tolomeo] | Furio Zanasi (baritone) [Achilla] | Dominique Visse (contralto) [Nireno] | Olivier Lallouette (baritone) [Curio] | Concerto Köln | René Jacobs (conductor)
  • Der Fliegende Holländer

    Episode

    Richard Wagner

    Hans Sotin [Daland] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Senta] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Erik] ** Uta Priew [Mary] ** Peter Seiffert [Der Steuermann Dalands] ** Bernd Weikl (baritone) [Der Holländer] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin [Matrosen des Norwegers ** Die Mannschaft des Fliegenden Holländers ** Mädchen] ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (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)
  • Stiffelio

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    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)
  • Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

    Episode

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Monica Piccinini (soprano) [Clorinda] | Matteo Bellotto (bass) [Tancredi] | Raffaele Giordani (alto) [Testo] | Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
  • Tancredi

    Episode

    Giachino Rossini

    Marilyn Horne [Tancredi] | Lella Cuberli [Amenaide] | Ernesto Palacio [Argirio] | Nicola Zaccaria [Orbazzano] | Bernadette Manca di Nissa [Isaura] | Patricia Schuman [Roggiero] | Orchestra e coro del Teatro la Fenice | Ralf Weikert (conductor)
  • La Juive

    Episode

    Fromental Halévy

    José Carreras (tenor) [Eléazar] ** Julia Varady (soprano) [Rachel] ** Dalmacio Gonzales [Léopold] ** June Anderson [La Princesse Eudoxie] ** Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) [Le Cardinal de Brogni] ** René Massis [Ruggiero] ** Renè Schirrer [Albert] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Antonio de Almeida (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)
  • 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)
  • Roland

    Episode

    Jean-Baptiste Lully

    Nicolas Testé [Roland] ** Anna-Maria Panzarella [Ang!lique] ** Olivier Dumait [Médor] ** Monique Zanetti [Témire] ** Robert Getchell [Astolfe] ** Saomé Haller [La fée principale, Logistille] ** Evgueniy Alexiev [Ziliante ** Demogorgon ** Un suivant d'Angélique] ** Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Un insulaire ** Tersandre] ** Anders. J. Dahlin [Un insulaire ** Un suivant d'Angélique ** Coridon, un pâtre]] ** Marie-Hélène Essade [Un amante contente ** Une suivante d'Angélique ** Une postourelle] ** Delphine Gillot [Une suivante d'Angélique ** Une amante contente, La Gloire] ** Les Talens Lyriques ** Christophe Rousset (conductor)
  • Norma

    Episode

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Norma] ** Fiorenza Cossotto [Adalgisa] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Pollione] ** Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Oroveso] ** Elizabeth Bainbridge [Clotilde] ** Kenneth Collins [Flavio] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** London Philharmonic Orchestra ** Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor)