Aria Code

WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera 53 - Introducing Classical Music Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax

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.

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Aria Code

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Introducing Classical Music Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax

Introducing Our Common Nature with Yo-Yo Ma

Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

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

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

Love Takes Flight: Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas

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

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

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

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

Aria Code Returns for Season 4!

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

To Be Or Not To Be: Dean's Hamlet

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

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

Verdi's Nabucco: By the Rivers of Babylon

Once More Into the Breeches: Joyce DiDonato Sings Strauss

Breaking Mad: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

Crisis in the Kremlin: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

Only the Good Die Young: Verdi's La Traviata

Guys and Dolls: Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann

Strauss's Elektra: Waltzing With a Vengeance

Puccini's Tosca: Death is But a Dream

Handel's Agrippina: Nice Romans Finish Last

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

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

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

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

Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps

Aria Code Is Back and Bigger Than Ever!

Rossini's La Cenerentola: Opera's Cinderella Story

Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann: Fool for Love

Puccini's Turandot: Bewitched, Bothered, And Beheaded

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Rise Up Singing

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

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

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: Sleepless in Sevilla

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

Puccini's Madama Butterfly: When My Ship Comes In

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

Aria Code with Rhiannon Giddens is Back!

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

Flower Power: Don José and Dangerous Love in Bizet's Carmen

Massenet's Werther: You've Got Mail!

Mozart's Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World

Verdi's Rigoletto: First Love, Wrong Love

Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment: Sailing the High Cs

Saint-Saëns’s Dalila: She's a Femme Fatale

Puccini's Tosca: I Offered Songs to the Stars

Puccini's La Boheme: Is Love at First Sight Really a Thing?