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Definition of oratorio
oratorios
: a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery
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For more than a century, the performance of great oratorio has been defined in Cincinnati by a chorus that stands on risers and sings.
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The multistyled piece was anchored by a powerfully moving, beautifully sung oratorio.
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Papa Haydn's masterful oratorio also happens to be one of the Chicago Symphony Chorus' signature pieces.
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The group gave the oratorio its Chicago premiere nearly 40 years ago and made one of its earliest recordings.
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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.
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In contrast, Trinity’s Handel Project, a new multiyear survey of Handel’s oratorios, shapes up as a more improvisatory affair, to judge from its opening concert last Wednesday.
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The choir, formerly known as the Collegiate Chorale, is thinking big for its seventy-fifth-anniversary season, with a concert of Bach’s mammoth oratorio, a musical rendering of the Passion of Jesus Christ, in all its terrifying majesty.
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Israel in Egypt, assigned the catalog number HWV 54, is an oratorio, a form in which Handel excelled.
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Origin and Etymology of oratorio
Italian, from the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri (Oratory of St. Philip Neri) in Rome
ORATORIO Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of oratorio for English Language Learners
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: a large piece of music for a group of singers and musicians that is usually about a religious subject
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