Introducing Classical Music Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax
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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...
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Listen to Aria Code, a Music podcast by WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera. Stream 52 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Introducing Our Common Nature with Yo-Yo Ma
Ana González is here to introduce you to her new podcast, Our Common Nature , a musical journey with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. When the world stoppe...
Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is the most famous love story in the Western canon. It’s a tale so embedded in our culture — one that has s...
You Don't Own Me: The Myth and Magic of Bizet's Carmen
Carmen is maybe the most famous heroine in all of opera. She’s a woman of Romani descent living in 19th century Spain, sensual and self-conf...
Revisiting Mozart’s Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World
When the Voyager spacecraft set off to explore the galaxy in 1977, it carried a recording to represent the best of humanity. The “Golden Rec...
Love Takes Flight: Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas
It’s the early 1900s, and the steamship El Dorado makes its way along the Amazon River towards Manaus, a city in the heart of the Brazilian...
Davis’s X: The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X
Malcolm X led many lives within his 39 years: as a bereaved but precocious child; as an imprisoned convict; as a firebrand spokesperson for...
Revisiting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice: Don’t Look Back in Ardor
If a loved one were to die, how far would you be willing to go to bring them back? Orpheus, the ancient Greek musician, goes to hell and bac...
Good Things Come to Those Who Weep: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
“L’Elisir d’Amore” — “The Elixir of Love” — is what’s known as an opera buffa , or comic opera. That means that we’re in for a happy ending....
Death, Faith, and Redemption: Heggie’s Dead Man Walking
What does redemption mean to a man sentenced to death? Is capital punishment justice or vengeance? Could anyone ever forgive a murderer? The...
Aria Code Returns for Season 4!
At last! After much anticipation, Aria Code returns! We’re guiding listeners through highlights from the Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-2024 seas...
P.S. I Love You: Renée Fleming Sings Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Saying “I love you” for the first time takes courage, especially when you don’t know the response you'll get. But being open with your emoti...
To Be Or Not To Be: Dean's Hamlet
“To be or not to be, that is the question.” It’s hard to think of a more famous line from a more famous play. In this iconic speech from Sha...
Potion, Emotion, Devotion: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
When we talk about “falling in love,” we talk about it like it is something that just happens . Suddenly the ground opens up and we are fall...
Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Boy of Peculiar Grace
This week we’re decoding with the man who wrote the code - Terence Blanchard, composer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones . Not only is it the work...
Verdi's Nabucco: By the Rivers of Babylon
Psalm 137 depicts the ancient Hebrews, enslaved and weeping “by the rivers of Babylon,” as they remember their homeland, Jerusalem. Those wo...
Once More Into the Breeches: Joyce DiDonato Sings Strauss
The young Composer in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos is one of opera’s great trouser roles -- a female singer playing the part of a young man....
Breaking Mad: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
People who go to see Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor spend the entire evening waiting for the famous Mad Scene, to hear the soprano’...
Crisis in the Kremlin: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
Perhaps no opera better reflects the questions and contradictions at the heart of Russian history than Modest Mussorgsky’s historical epic B...
Only the Good Die Young: Verdi's La Traviata
One of opera’s great heroines is based on one of history’s extraordinary women. The 19th century French courtesan Marie Duplessis was elegan...
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