JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES (1969)
opera in three acts
Libretto: Don Moreland

First Performance: SUNY Purchase, NY, Feb. 4, 1978
(Concert performance with piano)

A modern reading of the Apocryphal Book of Judith in which Holofernes, the Babylonian general, longs for death, and Judith seeks immortality by saving her city.

"compelling. . . vital, full-bodied . . . Mr. Fink writes well for the voice, making full use of the instrument without resorting to hysterical histrionics or excessive angularity"
- New York Times