Aria Code

A podcast by WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera - Wednesdays

Wednesdays

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Arts Music

50 Episodes

  1. Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

    Published: 1/17/2024

  2. You Don't Own Me: The Myth and Magic of Bizet's Carmen

    Published: 1/3/2024

  3. Revisiting Mozart’s Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World

    Published: 12/13/2023

  4. Love Takes Flight: Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas

    Published: 11/29/2023

  5. Davis’s X: The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X

    Published: 11/15/2023

  6. Revisiting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice: Don’t Look Back in Ardor

    Published: 11/1/2023

  7. Good Things Come to Those Who Weep: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore

    Published: 10/18/2023

  8. Death, Faith, and Redemption: Heggie’s Dead Man Walking

    Published: 10/4/2023

  9. Aria Code Returns for Season 4!

    Published: 9/28/2023

  10. P.S. I Love You: Renée Fleming Sings Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

    Published: 12/1/2021

  11. To Be Or Not To Be: Dean's Hamlet

    Published: 11/17/2021

  12. Potion, Emotion, Devotion: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

    Published: 11/3/2021

  13. Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Boy of Peculiar Grace

    Published: 10/13/2021

  14. October 8: Free Virtual Event with Terence Blanchard

    Published: 10/8/2021

  15. Once More Into the Breeches: Joyce DiDonato Sings Strauss

    Published: 9/15/2021

  16. Breaking Mad: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

    Published: 8/25/2021

  17. Crisis in the Kremlin: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

    Published: 8/11/2021

  18. Only the Good Die Young: Verdi's La Traviata

    Published: 7/21/2021

  19. Guys and Dolls: Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann

    Published: 7/7/2021

  20. Strauss's Elektra: Waltzing With a Vengeance

    Published: 6/23/2021

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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.