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Recent Examples of oratorio
This one-of-a-kind Spanish-language oratorio will be released next year.
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Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
Few singers today dispatch the aria with the panache of Gerald Finley, who performs the oratorio next week with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, from December 16 to 21.
—Matthew Gurewitsch, Air Mail, 13 Dec. 2025
But her fourth album, Lux, adopts the sound and ambitions of a classical oratorio to mirror the modern quest for salvation, in all its thrilling and frustrating contours.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2025
So you were drawn to the idea of writing an oratorio?
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
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Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
Few singers today dispatch the aria with the panache of Gerald Finley, who performs the oratorio next week with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, from December 16 to 21.
—Matthew Gurewitsch, Air Mail, 13 Dec. 2025
But her fourth album, Lux, adopts the sound and ambitions of a classical oratorio to mirror the modern quest for salvation, in all its thrilling and frustrating contours.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2025
So you were drawn to the idea of writing an oratorio?
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for oratorio
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oratorio
Noun
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Nazi parades set to electronic hype music; paeans to Third Reich governance.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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But that success also led to the sci-fi woodland antics of The Wild Robot; the Oscar-winning, postapocalyptic vision of feline collaboration in Flow; and the paean to basketball teamwork that was this year’s Goat.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One of the largest mass graves in Mexico was reported in 2017 when more than 250 skulls were found in what appeared to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Like all black holes, primordial black holes have mass and thus interact with gravity and are effectively invisible due to the fact that they are bounded by a light-trapping surface called an event horizon.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday?—
Jorie Nicole McDonald,
Southern Living,
7 Mar. 2026
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And a road win without Pat Surtain II would be the surest hallelujah yet.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
1 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The Patriarchate canceled the traditional processional last week because of safety concerns, and has held Masses limited to fewer than 50 worshippers in compliance with the Israeli military's guidelines for civilians.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Mar. 2026
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The Patriarchate canceled the traditional processional last week because of safety concerns, and has held Masses limited to fewer than 50 worshipers in compliance with the Israeli military’s guidelines for civilians.—
Melanie Lidman,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2026
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The organ that colored all the earlier tales of youthful exuberance now plays a funeral dirge.—
David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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Swedish singer-composer Anna von Hausswolff, whose cathedral melodies, intense vocals and doom-laden dirges share much in common with Nordic heavy-metal culture, specializes in mystery and grandiosity.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There, he was honored with salutes and a requiem.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
19 Dec. 2025
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Finally, 110 words into his statement, Trump closed with a proper requiem for the deceased.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
15 Dec. 2025
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Synchronized blinking faded when the researchers sped up the Bach chorales to 120 beats per minute.—
Jesse Greenspan,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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Grymes reconstructed those works and arranged other popular war songs for the chorale to perform.—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Oratorio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oratorio. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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