Aria Code

Aria Code

Hosted by Rhiannon Giddens · WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera

4.8from 2,764 ratings

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52
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2018
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About Aria Code

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.

Publisher
WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera
Category
arts · music · music
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
19 Nov 2018
Latest episode
25 Mar 2026
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Latest episodes

52 episodes in the feed.

  1. 25 Mar 2026

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  2. 12 Nov 2025

    Introducing Our Common Nature with Yo-Yo Ma

  3. 17 Jan 2024

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  • Emanuel Ax
  • Ana González
  • Yo-Yo Ma
  • Diana Damrau
  • Yannick Nézet-Séguin

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