Aria Code

A podcast by WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera

Categories:

Arts Music

50 Episodes

  1. Puccini's Tosca: Death is But a Dream

    Published: 6/9/2021

  2. Handel's Agrippina: Nice Romans Finish Last

    Published: 5/19/2021

  3. Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress: I Walk the Line

    Published: 5/5/2021

  4. Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro: Count On a Reckoning

    Published: 4/21/2021

  5. Rossini's Barber of Seville: On a Wig and a Prayer

    Published: 4/7/2021

  6. Verdi's Aida: There's No Place Like Home

    Published: 3/24/2021

  7. Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps

    Published: 3/10/2021

  8. Aria Code Is Back and Bigger Than Ever!

    Published: 3/3/2021

  9. Rossini's La Cenerentola: Opera's Cinderella Story

    Published: 2/5/2020

  10. Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann: Fool for Love

    Published: 1/29/2020

  11. Puccini's Turandot: Bewitched, Bothered, And Beheaded

    Published: 1/22/2020

  12. The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Rise Up Singing

    Published: 1/15/2020

  13. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier featuring Renée Fleming: Here's To You, Mrs. Marschallin

    Published: 12/18/2019

  14. Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice: Don't Look Back in Ardor

    Published: 12/11/2019

  15. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: Sleepless in Sevilla

    Published: 12/4/2019

  16. Philip Glass’s Akhnaten: I Am Your Sunshine, Your Only Sunshine

    Published: 11/27/2019

  17. Puccini's Madama Butterfly: When My Ship Comes In

    Published: 11/20/2019

  18. Verdi's Lady Macbeth: Sleepwalk with Me, featuring Anna Netrebko

    Published: 11/13/2019

  19. Aria Code with Rhiannon Giddens is Back!

    Published: 11/7/2019

  20. Floyd's Susannah: Hopeless in New Hope, featuring Renée Fleming

    Published: 6/21/2019

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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.