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.

  • Il Pirata

    Episode

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Maria Callas [Imogene] ** Constantino Ego [Ernesto] ** Pier Miranda Ferraro [Gualtiero] ** Glade
    Peterson [Itulbo] ** Chester Watson [Goffredo (Solitario)] ** Regina Sarfaty [Adele] ** Chorus and
    Orchestra of the American Opera Society ** Nicola Rescigno (conductor)
  • Werther

    Episode

    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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Le Prophète

    Episode

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Marilyn Horne [Fidès] ** James McCracken [Jean de Leyden] ** Renata Scotto (soprano) [Berthe] **
    Jules Bastin [Le Comte d'Oberthal] ** Jerome Hines [Zacharie] ** Jean Dupouy [Jonas] ** Christian
    du Plessis [Mathisen] ** Oliver Broome [Paysan] ** John Noble [Paysan] ** Patricia Clark (soprano)
    [Paysanne] ** Shirley Minty [Paysanne] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Boys Choir, Haberdashers'
    Aske's School, Elstree ** Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ** Henry Lewis (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)
  • Carmen

    Episode

    Georges Bizet

    Agnes Baltsa [Carmen] ** José Carreras [Don José] ** José van Dam [Escamillo] ** Katia Ricciarelli
    [Micaëla] ** Christine Barbaux [Frasquita] ** Jane Berbié [Marcellina] ** Alexander Malta [Zuniga] **
    Mikael Melbye [Moralès] ** Gino Quilico [Le Dancaïr] ** Heinz Zednik [Le Remendado] ** Michel
    Marinpouille [Andrès] ** Chœur de l'Opéra de Paris ** Berlin Philharmonic ** Herbert von Karajan
    (conductor)
  • Rigoletto

    Episode

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Il Duca di Mantova] ** Vladimir Chernov [Rigoletto] ** Cheryl Studer
    (soprano) [Gilda] ** Roberto Scandiuzzi (bass) [Sparafucile] ** Denyce Graves [Maddalena] ** Jane
    Shaulis [Giovanna] ** Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Il Conte di Monterone] ** Dwayne Croft [Marullo] **
    Paul Groves [Borsa Matteo] ** Yannis Yannissis [Il Conte di Ceprano] ** Heidi Grant Murphy [La
    Contessa di Ceprano] ** Robert Maher [Usciere di corte] ** Elyssa Lindner [Paggio della Duchessa]
    ** The Metropolitan Opera Chorus [Cavalieri,Dame, Paggi, Alabardieri] ** The Metropolitan Opera
    Orchestra ** James Levine (conductor)
  • L'incoronazione di Poppea

    Episode

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) ** Catherine Bott (soprano) ** Marinella Pennicchi [Amore] **
    Sylvia McNair [Poppea] ** Dana Hanchard [Nerone] ** Michael Chance (alto) [Ottone] ** Francesco
    Ellero d'Artegna [Seneca] ** Bernarda Fink (alto) ** Roberto Balconi [Nutrice] ** Mark Tucker (tenor)
    [Soldato] ** Nigel Robson [Soldato] ** Mark Tucker (tenor) [Lucano] ** Constanze Backes [Valletto] **
    Marinella Pennicchi [Damigella] ** Nigel Robson [Liberto] ** Julian Clarkson [Littore] ** The English
    Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
  • La Wally

    Episode

    Alfredo Catalani

    Eva Marton [Wally] ** Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Stromminger] ** Alan Titus [Vincenzo Gellner] **
    Francisco Araiza [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] ** Birgit Calm [Afra] ** Julie Kaufmann [Walter] **
    Michele Pertusi [Il Pedone] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus ** Münchner Rundfunkorchester ** Pinchas
    Steinberg (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)
  • Médée

    Episode

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier

    Jill Feldman [Médée] ** Jacques Bona [Créon] ** Agnes Mellon [Créuse] ** Gilles Ragon [Jason] **
    Philippe Cantor [Oronte] ** Sophie Boulin [Nérine] ** Les Arts Florissants Chœurs et Orchestre **
    William Christie (conductor)