The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Driven more by imagery than plot, he has been best suited to staging oratorios or concert works like Mozart’s Requiem and Mahler’s Second Symphony.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
George Frideric Handel wrote some 42 operas across his career — his unstaged oratorios such as “Messiah” constitute a separate category — but Seattle Opera has presented only three of these to date.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
A recent performance of “Solomon” at Carnegie Hall was a reminder of the sumptuous power of Handel’s English oratorios, his genre of concert-format, loosely plotted, often biblically inspired works that made choruses the stars.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
But common to both tellings, as well as the dozens of operas, oratorios, plays and films since derived from the myth of Iphigenia, is that she’s not the one who gets to tell the story.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2021
After Esther Handel presented a further twenty-one oratorios in London.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
