How to Use oratorio in a Sentence

oratorio

noun

• What remains is a gloomy, 65-minute oratorio that extends the prison setting to the wider world.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 12 June 2019
• Director Lee Sunday Evans puts the band behind the high back row, and the singers spend most of the oratorio walking up and down the stairs all around us.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2022
• The hour-long oratorio is based on surgeon Richard Selzer’s book of essays of the same name, first published in 1974.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• The abridgment resulted in the loss of fully half the oratorio.
  — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Soon, however, the oratorio reaches a turning point, the sting of hate and pain giving way to chords of serenity and peace.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• The group gave the oratorio its Chicago premiere nearly 40 years ago and made one of its earliest recordings.
  — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2017
• Planning the attack The press had announced that Napoleon would be attending the French premiere of the oratorio on December 24.
  — National Geographic, 20 Dec. 2019
• Costa-Jackson’s beautiful diction and rolled Rs would have been great in an oratorio, but this was not the way a punk Mimì, alert to everything around her, would sound.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2019
• For more than a century, the performance of great oratorio has been defined in Cincinnati by a chorus that stands on risers and sings.
  — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2017
• Musical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note: singing in recitative.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• Split into three parts, this oratorio tells of the coming of Christ to redeem the world, His ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension.
  — oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2022
• As staged by Patricia McGregor, the oratorio implied raw and rich street life.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• As well as hymns, a motet and a sermon, the solemn vespers would include a gigantic two-part oratorio composed by the church’s Cantor—the director of music—with a text taken from St. Matthew’s gospel.
  — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2022
• The final few sections of the long oratorio were marked by a few pitch issues and a little loosening of the cohesive ensemble work heard up to those final sections.
  — Elaine Schmidt, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
• Haupt worked with deaf people and a choreographer to develop a performance that would render not only the sung words of the oratorio, but also the character of the music.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• What’s lost, during lapses like that, are the moments that inspire awe, replaced by a kind of white-knuckle anxiety in, for example, the grand chorus that closes the oratorio’s first part.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Lift your voice alongside the Westwood Chancel Choir in a performance of Handel’s classic oratorio.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• That work includes a second documentary, a book and an oratorio.
  — New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
• Media: Euronews The 35-minute oratorio combines the poignant plot with a cosmic concept of transformation.
  — Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• The oratorio, meanwhile, has a tumultuous history of its own.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Soprano Mari Hahn is a versatile performer of opera, art song, oratorio, music theater and jazz.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2020
• Within this small boy, so modest in his manner, there were symphonies unwritten, suites and concertos and oratorios.
  — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• The politically pointed oratorio was dedicated to Ché Guevara, and a group of students ran a Communist red flag up on the stage.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• Music director Franz Welser-Most would conduct an abridged version of the oratorio, including all the parts with soprano solo and the big choruses.
  — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Among the most memorable of recent local takes on Handel’s oratorio came when Jeannette Sorrell took the podium in December 2018.
  — Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• It was performed though not staged — that is, presented as a stony oratorio, with video animations on screens as illustration.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• In the oratorio’s second part, the women discover the empty tomb, and the Angel declaring Jesus’ resurrection.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
• Founded in 1977, the group performs concerts ranging from the classics of opera, oratorio and the concert stage to American and European folk and spiritual music.
  — Valerie Bonk, Howard County Times, 3 May 2017
• This large-scale, evening-length piece requires live musicians and a choir to perform Handel’s luminous three-part oratorio, as well as lots of space and supplementary dancers, meaning it’s not often staged.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Masur, who loves choral music, will conduct the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus in Handel's popular oratorio.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2023

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024