Hey, Arya Code fans, we thought you would enjoy this encore presentation of one of our favorite episodes from a past season.

We'll be back in two weeks with a brand new episode.

I'm calling to her, I'm begging that they give me my love back, and I realize that that's not going to happen.

From WQXR in the Metropolitan Opera, this is Arya Code. I'm Rianne Giddens.

We're not going to be able to go down to hell to rescue the ones that we love.

And yet, through those stories writ large, I think that in our small human ways, we're able to deal with what life hands us.

Every episode, we break down a single Arya so we can hear it in a whole new way.

Today, it's Ke Faro, Sinsa Ioridice.

What will I do without your riddacy?

From GluX, Orfeo, Ioridice.

I think in the back of my mind, I kept waiting for her to get better.

I kept thinking that the next tweak was going to do the trick, and then we get back to the business of living our lives.

Christophe GluX opera Orfeo at Yoridice is based on the ancient Greek myth about a man named Orfius,

who travels down to the underworld to bring his wife Euridicee back from the dead.

There's this condition, though. There's this pesky condition.

While they're on their journey back up to the land of the living, he's not allowed to turn back to look at Euridicee.

He has to walk a few steps in front of her and trust that she's still there.

That's hard for a man who loves his wife so much he'd follow her all the way down to hell.

Well, he can't resist, and the moment he turns toward her, she dies again.

And this time, there's no coming back.

It's a story that's been told a million ways, in books, movies, plays, paintings, even video games.

And there are a lot of different versions, as you might expect, when stories get passed down.

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