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Achior and Rebecca

Achior is a soldier, a general in Nebuchadnezzar's army, under the leadership of Holofernes. (It's a famous Bible story from the biblical appendix called the Apocrypha). This scene from my opera about the heroine, Judith, (who eventually murders Holofernes sfter she seduces him with drink) takes place after Holofernes tortures and delivers up Achior to the Jews of Bethulia. This town is under seige: The army must take it to get to Jerusalem! He tells the townspeople how his first love was a Jewish captive when they were both young slaves in Babylon. He has never forgotten this girl and her unswervable faith...