To be distinguished from Giuditta a German operetta by Franz Lehár. La Giuditta may refer to any one of several Italian oratorios, as elaborated below, treating the figure of Judith, from the Biblical Apocrypha, who liberated her besieged home town of Bethulia by seducing and then beheading Holofernes, commander of the forces laying the siege.
To be distinguished from Giuditta a German operetta by Franz Lehár. La Giuditta may refer to any one of several Italian oratorios, as elaborated below, treating the figure of Judith, from the Biblical Apocrypha, who liberated her besieged home town of Bethulia by seducing and then beheading Holofernes, commander of the forces laying the siege.
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