You’ve probably been there: in love for the first time and enchanted by the very sound of your sweetheart’s name. The problem for Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto is that her new love isn’t who he says he is. The worst will come (it’s opera), but for a few brief moments in Act I, Gilda’s innocence sweeps you away. She’s young and head over heels and obsessing over the “caro nome,” the “dear name” of her new love.
In this episode, host Rhiannon Giddens is joined by soprano Nadine Sierra, writer Paul Thomason and psychologist Carl Pickhardt. Together they consider the dizzying thrill of your first love, Verdi’s brilliant powers of orchestration and why Gilda’s infatuation rings so true even today. You’ll hear Nadine Sierra reminisce about her own formative experiences and then fall in love with the so-called “Gualtier Maldè” onstage at the Metropolitan Opera.
Puccini's Tosca: Death is But a Dream
Handel's Agrippina: Nice Romans Finish Last
Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress: I Walk the Line
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro: Count On a Reckoning
Rossini's Barber of Seville: On a Wig and a Prayer
Verdi's Aida: There's No Place Like Home
Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps
Aria Code Is Back and Bigger Than Ever!
Rossini's La Cenerentola: Opera's Cinderella Story
Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann: Fool for Love
Puccini's Turandot: Bewitched, Bothered, And Beheaded
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Rise Up Singing
Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier featuring Renée Fleming: Here's To You, Mrs. Marschallin
Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice: Don't Look Back in Ardor
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: Sleepless in Sevilla
Philip Glass’s Akhnaten: I Am Your Sunshine, Your Only Sunshine
Puccini's Madama Butterfly: When My Ship Comes In
Verdi's Lady Macbeth: Sleepwalk with Me, featuring Anna Netrebko
Aria Code with Rhiannon Giddens is Back!
Floyd's Susannah: Hopeless in New Hope, featuring Renée Fleming
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