Aria Code
WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera
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.
Categories: Music
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Previous episodes
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51 - Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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50 - You Don't Own Me: The Myth and Magic of Bizet's Carmen Wed, 3 Jan 2024
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49 - Revisiting Mozart’s Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World Wed, 13 Dec 2023
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48 - Love Takes Flight: Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas Wed, 29 Nov 2023
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47 - Davis’s X: The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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46 - Revisiting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice: Don’t Look Back in Ardor Wed, 1 Nov 2023
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45 - Good Things Come to Those Who Weep: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore Wed, 18 Oct 2023
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44 - Death, Faith, and Redemption: Heggie’s Dead Man Walking Wed, 4 Oct 2023
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43 - Aria Code Returns for Season 4! Thu, 28 Sep 2023
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42 - P.S. I Love You: Renée Fleming Sings Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Wed, 1 Dec 2021
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41 - To Be Or Not To Be: Dean's Hamlet Wed, 17 Nov 2021
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40 - Potion, Emotion, Devotion: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Wed, 3 Nov 2021
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39 - Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Boy of Peculiar Grace Wed, 13 Oct 2021
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38 - Verdi's Nabucco: By the Rivers of Babylon Wed, 29 Sep 2021
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37 - Once More Into the Breeches: Joyce DiDonato Sings Strauss Wed, 15 Sep 2021
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36 - Breaking Mad: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor Wed, 25 Aug 2021
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35 - Crisis in the Kremlin: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov Wed, 11 Aug 2021
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34 - Only the Good Die Young: Verdi's La Traviata Wed, 21 Jul 2021
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33 - Guys and Dolls: Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann Wed, 7 Jul 2021
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32 - Strauss's Elektra: Waltzing With a Vengeance Wed, 23 Jun 2021
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31 - Puccini's Tosca: Death is But a Dream Wed, 9 Jun 2021
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30 - Handel's Agrippina: Nice Romans Finish Last Wed, 19 May 2021
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29 - Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress: I Walk the Line Wed, 5 May 2021
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28 - Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro: Count On a Reckoning Wed, 21 Apr 2021
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27 - Rossini's Barber of Seville: On a Wig and a Prayer Wed, 7 Apr 2021
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26 - Verdi's Aida: There's No Place Like Home Wed, 24 Mar 2021
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25 - Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps Wed, 10 Mar 2021
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24 - Aria Code Is Back and Bigger Than Ever! Wed, 3 Mar 2021
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23 - Rossini's La Cenerentola: Opera's Cinderella Story Wed, 5 Feb 2020
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22 - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann: Fool for Love Wed, 29 Jan 2020
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21 - Puccini's Turandot: Bewitched, Bothered, And Beheaded Wed, 22 Jan 2020
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20 - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Rise Up Singing Wed, 15 Jan 2020
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19 - Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier featuring Renée Fleming: Here's To You, Mrs. Marschallin Wed, 18 Dec 2019
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18 - Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice: Don't Look Back in Ardor Wed, 11 Dec 2019
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17 - Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: Sleepless in Sevilla Wed, 4 Dec 2019
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16 - Philip Glass’s Akhnaten: I Am Your Sunshine, Your Only Sunshine Wed, 27 Nov 2019
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15 - Puccini's Madama Butterfly: When My Ship Comes In Wed, 20 Nov 2019
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14 - Verdi's Lady Macbeth: Sleepwalk with Me, featuring Anna Netrebko Wed, 13 Nov 2019
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13 - Aria Code with Rhiannon Giddens is Back! Thu, 7 Nov 2019
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12 - Floyd's Susannah: Hopeless in New Hope, featuring Renée Fleming Fri, 21 Jun 2019
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11 - Flower Power: Don José and Dangerous Love in Bizet's Carmen Wed, 6 Feb 2019
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10 - Massenet's Werther: You've Got Mail! Wed, 30 Jan 2019
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9 - Mozart's Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World Wed, 23 Jan 2019
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8 - Verdi's Rigoletto: First Love, Wrong Love Wed, 16 Jan 2019
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7 - Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment: Sailing the High Cs Wed, 9 Jan 2019
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6 - Saint-Saëns’s Dalila: She's a Femme Fatale Wed, 2 Jan 2019
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5 - Puccini's Tosca: I Offered Songs to the Stars Wed, 26 Dec 2018
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3 - Puccini's La Boheme: Is Love at First Sight Really a Thing? Wed, 12 Dec 2018
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2 - Verdi's La Traviata: Opera's Original 'Pretty Woman' Tue, 4 Dec 2018
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1 - Welcome to Aria Code with Rhiannon Giddens Mon, 19 Nov 2018