From PRX.

This is Studio 360.

I'm Kurti Anderson.

On this Studio 360 Extra, we're sharing an excellent new podcast that we didn't make.

It's called Aria Code. It's about

opera, get it, and there's a good chance that you'll like it as much as we did, even if,

like me, you're not entirely sure you love opera. Aria Code is a production of WQXR and the

Metropolitan Opera and hosted by the singer Riannon Giddens.

In each episode, singers and other cognoscenti decode a single piece from an opera and then play that piece uninterrupted.

This episode is all about seduction and lying in the opera Samson and Delilah by Sansa.

I hope you enjoy it.

The voice is just incredible, thick, honey river.

There is just like an oil which just covers your body around it, and you don't

even realize that suddenly it's everywhere around you.

From WQXR in the Metropolitan Opera, this is ARIA Code. I'm Rianna Giddens.

As she sings, it's almost as if she's slowly removing her clothing, one note at a time.

My mission? Break down one famous aria so you can hear it with fresh ears.

On this episode is My Cure Souvra to Ta Voa, from Sinseng and Dalila by Tami Sincennes.

We think she really loves him.

And then in the following scene,

vengeance is all she's after.

And we see just how terrifyingly treacherous she is. The film Fertile. She seduces, she ensnars, and sometimes she destroys men.

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