"Nessun dorma" by Giacomo Puccini (Aria Code)

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The fine folks at WNYC's fabulous opera podcast Aria Code recently reached out about doing a cross-promotion with Strong Songs, and now here we are, running an episode of their show in the Strong Songs feed.

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0:00.0	Hello Strong Suns listeners, Kirk here on an off-week with a special treat for all of you
0:05.8	about a subject that I haven't really covered on this show, Opera.
0:10.3	A little while back, the folks at WNYC's terrific opera podcast Aria Code reached out to me
0:14.8	about doing some sort of a cross promo.
0:16.9	I love that show and we'll end up working out something where they ran a trailer for
0:19.8	Strong Suns in one of their shows, and I ran an episode of Aria Code in my feed.
0:24.6	So that's what you're about to hear.
0:26.2	It's a really good episode, their season three premiere, which initially aired back in
0:29.6	March.
0:30.6	It's all about Cuccini's Nesun Dorma from the Opera Tour and Dope.
0:33.7	It's an Aria that I'm sure most of you have heard, I'd certainly heard it.
0:36.8	This episode gave me a much deeper appreciation for it.
0:39.2	It's a beautiful episode, so I hope it will do the same thing for all of you.
0:43.0	That episode will play in its entirety right after the intro.
0:45.4	This is the last you'll hear from me, so if you heard the episode back when it aired in
0:48.3	March, there's nothing new here.
0:50.1	It's probably worth listening again though, because it is really, really good.
0:52.8	Alright, that's it for me.
0:53.8	I will see you all next week with another episode for now.
0:56.6	Please enjoy Aria Code's episode on Cuccini's Nesun Dorma.
1:03.2	It's a cry of victory, a cry of hope, and a cry of an underdog overcoming the odds
1:10.1	and winning after all.
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