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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

Each of Wolfe’s oratorios has offered a different answer to the question of where the balance of poetry and politics lies, though she sees a progression through them.

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

Then again, Handel’s oratorios are today presented both staged and not; and Thursday was hopefully far from the last dramatic interpretation of “Her Story.”

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2022

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

Carissimi’s oratorios, particularly Jephta, which was composed some time in the 1640s, attracted great fame among European musicians.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall