Aria Code
A podcast by WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera - Wednesdays
50 Episodes
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Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
Published: 17/01/2024 -
You Don't Own Me: The Myth and Magic of Bizet's Carmen
Published: 3/01/2024 -
Revisiting Mozart’s Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World
Published: 13/12/2023 -
Love Takes Flight: Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas
Published: 29/11/2023 -
Davis’s X: The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X
Published: 15/11/2023 -
Revisiting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice: Don’t Look Back in Ardor
Published: 1/11/2023 -
Good Things Come to Those Who Weep: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Published: 18/10/2023 -
Death, Faith, and Redemption: Heggie’s Dead Man Walking
Published: 4/10/2023 -
Aria Code Returns for Season 4!
Published: 28/09/2023 -
P.S. I Love You: Renée Fleming Sings Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Published: 1/12/2021 -
To Be Or Not To Be: Dean's Hamlet
Published: 17/11/2021 -
Potion, Emotion, Devotion: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Published: 3/11/2021 -
Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Boy of Peculiar Grace
Published: 13/10/2021 -
October 8: Free Virtual Event with Terence Blanchard
Published: 8/10/2021 -
Once More Into the Breeches: Joyce DiDonato Sings Strauss
Published: 15/09/2021 -
Breaking Mad: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Published: 25/08/2021 -
Crisis in the Kremlin: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
Published: 11/08/2021 -
Only the Good Die Young: Verdi's La Traviata
Published: 21/07/2021 -
Guys and Dolls: Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann
Published: 7/07/2021 -
Strauss's Elektra: Waltzing With a Vengeance
Published: 23/06/2021
Aria Code is a podcast that pulls back the curtain on some of the most famous arias in opera history, with insight from the biggest voices of our time, including Roberto Alagna, Diana Damrau, Sondra Radvanovsky, and many others. Hosted by Grammy Award-winner and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Rhiannon Giddens, Aria Code is produced in partnership with The Metropolitan Opera. Each episode dives into one aria — a feature for a single singer — and explores how and why these brief musical moments have imprinted themselves in our collective consciousness and what it takes to stand on the Met stage and sing them. A wealth of guests—from artists like Rufus Wainwright and Ruben Santiago-Hudson to non-musicians like Dame Judi Dench and Dr. Brooke Magnanti, author of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl—join Rhiannon and the Met Opera’s singers to understand why these arias touch us at such a human level, well over a century after they were written. Each episode ends with the aria, uninterrupted and in full, recorded from the Met Opera stage. Aria Code is produced in partnership with WQXR, The Metropolitan Opera and WNYC Studios.
