How a unique opera about historic rape of Jewish women required a rewrite after October 7

When cantor Iris Karlin first heard the story of Yehudit – a Jewish heroine who reputedly saved her people by seducing and beheading an Assyrian general – she was shocked that it was so little known. She aims to correct that with an opera heavy on cantorial singing and a message about the Israeli women hostages still being held in Gaza