Aria Code
A podcast by WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera - Wednesdays
50 Episodes
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Puccini's Tosca: Death is But a Dream
Published: 9/06/2021 -
Handel's Agrippina: Nice Romans Finish Last
Published: 19/05/2021 -
Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress: I Walk the Line
Published: 5/05/2021 -
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro: Count On a Reckoning
Published: 21/04/2021 -
Rossini's Barber of Seville: On a Wig and a Prayer
Published: 7/04/2021 -
Verdi's Aida: There's No Place Like Home
Published: 24/03/2021 -
Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps
Published: 10/03/2021 -
Aria Code Is Back and Bigger Than Ever!
Published: 3/03/2021 -
Rossini's La Cenerentola: Opera's Cinderella Story
Published: 5/02/2020 -
Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann: Fool for Love
Published: 29/01/2020 -
Puccini's Turandot: Bewitched, Bothered, And Beheaded
Published: 22/01/2020 -
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Rise Up Singing
Published: 15/01/2020 -
Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier featuring Renée Fleming: Here's To You, Mrs. Marschallin
Published: 18/12/2019 -
Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice: Don't Look Back in Ardor
Published: 11/12/2019 -
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: Sleepless in Sevilla
Published: 4/12/2019 -
Philip Glass’s Akhnaten: I Am Your Sunshine, Your Only Sunshine
Published: 27/11/2019 -
Puccini's Madama Butterfly: When My Ship Comes In
Published: 20/11/2019 -
Verdi's Lady Macbeth: Sleepwalk with Me, featuring Anna Netrebko
Published: 13/11/2019 -
Aria Code with Rhiannon Giddens is Back!
Published: 7/11/2019 -
Floyd's Susannah: Hopeless in New Hope, featuring Renée Fleming
Published: 21/06/2019
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.
