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.

  • Idomeneo

    Episode

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Idomeneo] ** Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Idamante] **
    Sylvia McNair [Ilia] ** Hillevi Martinpelto [Elettra] ** Nigel Robson [Arbace] ** Glenn Winslade [Gran
    Sacerdote di Nettuno] ** Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [La Voce] ** Angela Kazimierczuk [Cretesa 1]
    ** Jonathan Peter Kenny [Cretesa 2] ** Philip Salmon [Troiane 1] ** Stephen Charlesworth [Troiane
    2] ** The Monteverdi Choir ** The English Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
  • La Cenerentola

    Episode

    Gioachino Rossini

    Agnes Baltsa [Cenerentola (Angiolina)] ** Francisco Araiza [Don Ramiro] ** Simone Alaimo [Dandini]
    ** Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Magnifico] ** Carol Malone [Clorinda] ** Felicity Palmer
    (soprano) [Tisbe] ** John Del Carlo [Alidoro] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Academy of St. Martin in
    the Fields ** Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
  • Adriana Lecouvreur

    Episode

    Francesco Cilea

    Renata Scotto (soprano) [Adriana Lecouvreur] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Maurizio] ** Sherill Milnes
    [Michonnet] ** Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [La Principessa di Bouillon] ** Giancarlo Luccardi
    [Il Principe di Bouillon] ** Florindo Andreoli [L'Abate di Chazeuil] ** Lillian Watson [Mlle. Jouvenot] **
    Anne Murray (mezzo-soprano) [Mlle. Dangeville] ** Paul Crook [Poisson] ** Paul Hudson [Quinault]
    ** Paul Crook [Un Maggiordomo] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** James
    Levine (conductor)
  • The Tsar's Bride

    Episode

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Gennady Bezzubenkov [Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin] ** Marina Shaguch [Marfa] ** Dmitri
    Hvorostovsky [Grigory Grigoryevich Gryaznoy] ** Sergei Alexashkin [Grigory Lukyanovich
    Malyuta-Skuratov] ** Evgeny Akimov [Ivan Sergeyevich Lykov] ** Olga Borodina [Lyubasha] **
    Nikolai Gassiev [Yelisey Bomelius] ** Irina Loskutova [Domna Ivanovna Saburova] ** Olga
    Markova-Mikhailenko [Dunyasha] ** Lyubov Sokolova [Petrovna] ** Yuri Shkliar [Stoker] ** Lyudmila
    Kasjanenko [Serving Girl] ** Viktor Vikhrov [Lad] ** Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburg **
    Valery Gergiev (conductor)
  • Turandot

    Episode

    Giacomo Puccini

    Joan Sutherland [Turandot] ** Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] ** Montserrat Caballé [Liù] ** Nicolai
    Ghiaurov [Timur] ** Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] ** Tom Krause [Ping] ** Pier Francesco Poli
    [Pang ** Il Principe di Persia] ** Piero de Palma [Pong] ** Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] ** John
    Alldis Choir ** Wandsworth Boys' Choir ** London Philharmonic Orchestra ** Zubin Mehta
    (conductor)
  • Ariodante

    Episode

    George Frideric Handel

    Joyce DiDonato [Ariodante] ** Matthew Brook [King of Scotland] ** Karina Gauvin [Ginevra] ** Topi
    Lehtipuu [Lurcanio] ** Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso] ** Sabina Puértolas [Dalinda] ** Anicio Zorzi
    Giustiniani [Odoardo] ** Il Complesso Barocco ** Alan Curtis (conductor)
  • Samson et Dalila

    Episode

    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Dalila] ** José Carreras (tenor) [Samson] ** Jonathan Summers [Le
    Grand Prêtre] ** Simon Estes [Abimelech] ** Paata Burchuladze [Un Vieillard Hébreu] ** Robert
    Swensen [Un Messager Philistin] ** Donald George Smith [Premier Philistin] ** Urban Malmberg
    (bass) [Deuxième Philistin] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ** Sir Colin Davis
    (conductor)
  • Anna Bolena

    Episode

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Anna Bolena] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Enrico VIII] ** Jerry Hadley
    (tenor) [Lord Riccardo Percy] ** Susanne Mentzer [Giovanna Seymour] ** Bernadette Manca di Nissa
    [Smeton] ** Giorgio Surian [Lord Rochefort] ** Ernesto Gavazzi [Sir Hervey] ** Chorus of the Welsh
    National Opera [Cortigiani, dame, paggi, scudieri, cacciatori, sceriffi, guardie] ** Orchestra of the
    Welsh National Opera ** Richard Bonynge (conductor)
  • Dardanus

    Episode

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [Dardanus] ** Véronique Gens [Iphise] ** Laurent Naouri [Anténor] **
    Mireille Delunsch [Vénus] ** Jean-Philippe Courtis [Isménor] ** Russell Smythe [Teucer] **
    Magdalena Kozená [Une Bergère] ** Françoise Masset [L'Amour] ** Jean-Louis Bindi [Un Phrygien]
    ** Magdalena Kozená [Première Songe] ** Alain Lombard (conductor) [Seconde Songe] ** Marcos
    Pujol [Troisième Songe] ** Magdalena Kozená [Première Phrygienne] ** Françoise Masset [Seconde
    Phrygienne] ** Chour des Musiciens du Louvre ** Les musiciens du Louvre ** Marc Minkowski
    (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)
  • 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)
  • Farnace

    Episode

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Max Emanuel Cencic [Farnace] ** Ruxandra Donose [Tamiri] ** Mary Ellen Nesi [Berenice] ** Ann
    Hallenberg [Selinda] ** Karina Gauvin [Gilade] ** Daniel Behle [Pompeo] ** Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro
    [Aquilio] ** Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano ** I Barocchisti ** Diego Fasolis (conductor)