Aria Code Returns for Season 4!

Aria Code

WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Aria, Music, Arts, Metropolitan, Performing Arts, Code, Wqxr, Opera, Wnyc, Studios

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Aria Code is back! At long last, Rhiannon Giddens returns to guide listeners through highlights from the Met’s ‘23-’24 season. Our first episode drops October 4th. Subscribe wherever you get podcasts!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Rianne and Giddens here with some great news. We've got a new
0:05.8	season of Arya Code, the show that reveals the magic of opera and life. One Arya at
0:12.2	a time. I just remember I got this shiver through my entire body, my hair
0:18.3	stood on end. This is the power of art, either depicting life or inspiring life.
0:26.7	Some of the world's greatest singers team up with experts and unexpected
0:31.3	guests to talk about love. I'd had a number of dates and they were all
0:36.4	disastrous. Even if you want to negate love, love will find you. You can't escape it.
0:42.9	Death, I didn't know I was gonna end up being with people in execution chamber.
0:48.4	Transformation. Malcolm was on a spiritual out-of-sea too and a spiritual
0:54.4	growth from Malcolm little to Detroit red to Malcolm X to El Haishma legal
1:00.3	shabas and the power of opera. We are all gathered to experience the magic of
1:07.0	great human voices of the orchestra and big human drama. From the Aryas that
1:16.1	have mesmerized us for centuries, singing Queen of the Night is like throwing
1:20.6	darts with your eyes closed. To the masterpieces of today, African-American
1:27.1	history itself is under assault. We have to make works that speak to our history
1:32.3	and also point to the future. Arya code will inspire you to think and feel more
1:38.8	deeply. It's all very enchanting, it's all very mysterious. Man, it's good to be
1:45.4	back. From WQXR in the Metropolitan Opera, it's Arya code. The new season
1:51.6	drops October 4th. Listen wherever you get podcasts.

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