Aria Code

Aria Code

24 episodes

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.

Podcasts

Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Romeo et Juliette

Published: Jan. 17, 2024, 10:07 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 14 seconds

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

Published: Jan. 3, 2024, 9 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 47 seconds

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Revisiting Mozarts Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds

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Love Takes Flight: Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 54 seconds

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Daviss X: The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 50 seconds

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Revisiting Glucks Orfeo ed Euridice: Dont Look Back in Ardor

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 55 seconds

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Good Things Come to Those Who Weep: Donizettis LElisir dAmore

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds

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Death, Faith, and Redemption: Heggies Dead Man Walking

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 58 seconds

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Aria Code Returns for Season 4!

Published: Sept. 28, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes

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

Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 13 seconds

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To Be Or Not To Be: Dean's Hamlet

Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 58 seconds

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

Published: Nov. 3, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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

Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 45 seconds

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Verdi's Nabucco: By the Rivers of Babylon

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 16 seconds

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Once More Into the Breeches: Joyce DiDonato Sings Strauss

Published: Sept. 15, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 38 seconds

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Breaking Mad: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

Published: Aug. 25, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 20 seconds

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Crisis in the Kremlin: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

Published: Aug. 11, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 57 seconds

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Only the Good Die Young: Verdi's La Traviata

Published: July 21, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 39 seconds

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Guys and Dolls: Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann

Published: July 7, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds

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Strauss's Elektra: Waltzing With a Vengeance

Published: June 23, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 43 seconds

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Puccini's Tosca: Death is But a Dream

Published: June 9, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Handel's Agrippina: Nice Romans Finish Last

Published: May 19, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 38 seconds

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Stravinskys The Rakes Progress: I Walk the Line

Published: May 5, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 23 seconds

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Mozarts The Marriage of Figaro: Count On a Reckoning

Published: April 21, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 29 seconds

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

Published: April 7, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 2 seconds

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

Published: March 24, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 43 seconds

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Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps

Published: March 10, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds

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Aria Code Is Back and Bigger Than Ever!

Published: March 3, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds

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Rossini's La Cenerentola: Opera's Cinderella Story

Published: Feb. 5, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 32 seconds

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Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann: Fool for Love

Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 37 seconds

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Puccini's Turandot: Bewitched, Bothered, And Beheaded

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 23 seconds

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The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Rise Up Singing

Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 46 seconds

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

Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 54 seconds

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

Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 29 seconds

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Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: Sleepless in Sevilla

Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 4 seconds

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Philip Glasss Akhnaten: I Am Your Sunshine, Your Only Sunshine

Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 10 seconds

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Puccini's Madama Butterfly: When My Ship Comes In

Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds

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

Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 17 seconds

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Aria Code with Rhiannon Giddens is Back!

Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds

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

Published: June 21, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 7 seconds

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

Published: Feb. 6, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 17 seconds

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Massenet's Werther: You've Got Mail!

Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds

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

Published: Jan. 23, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 12 seconds

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Verdi's Rigoletto: First Love, Wrong Love

Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 39 seconds

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

Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 38 seconds

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Saint-Saenss Dalila: She's a Femme Fatale

Published: Jan. 2, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 44 seconds

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Puccini's Tosca: I Offered Songs to the Stars

Published: Dec. 26, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 26 seconds

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

Published: Dec. 12, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 11 seconds

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Verdi's La Traviata: Opera's Original 'Pretty Woman'

Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds

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Welcome to Aria Code with Rhiannon Giddens

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds

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