Aria Code

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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Episodios

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Introducing Classical Music Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax

25 mar. 2026
52-

Introducing Our Common Nature with Yo-Yo Ma

12 nov. 2025
51-

Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

17 ene. 2024
50-

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

Wed, 3 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0000
49-

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

13 dic. 2023