oratorios
- plural of oratorio.
Example Sentences
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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
Generally sacred in subject, not meant to be staged, and organized as unruffled parades of tableaus more than sustained plots, these oratorios were at the time viewed as more populist than opera.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Wolfe’s other recent oratorios have been busy, multimedia presentations.
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
Nothing could be further from the omnipotent, benevolent creative force of Handel’s oratorios or Bach’s cantatas and Passions - yet Handel was still alive, just, and Bach had only died five years earlier.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
