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Classical picks: Messiah, ‘Butterfly,’ Panto The Bay Area’s classical music community will be hitting plenty of high notes this week, with a range of works to enjoy: a British panto, a beloved oratorio, and one of the world’s great operas.
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Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 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
Also on the season is an oratorio reflection on the death of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was brutally and fatally beaten in a 1998 anti-gay hate crime.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 8 Sep. 2025
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Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 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
Also on the season is an oratorio reflection on the death of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was brutally and fatally beaten in a 1998 anti-gay hate crime.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oratorio
Noun
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The movie isn’t just a paean to a pioneer spirit.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
26 Dec. 2025
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The chapter ends up being a paean to the persistence of love, and advocacy born from loss.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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To lawyers who paid Law Firm Headquarters (the Chhabra’s mass tort call center) for client referrals and partnered with Alpha Law (the pseudo law firm Vince operated with Ron), the settlement value of a plaintiff with revision surgery could be worth ten to fifteen times as much as one without.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Researchers at the University of Manchester, led by Professor Thomas Anthopoulos, have successfully stabilized perovskite solar cells, which could help move the low-cost technology into the global mass market.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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Read: What parents of boys should know Hess does all of this without sharing a drop of advice—hallelujah.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
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Following the processional of Cheeks Kilpatrick's family, Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard described their grief as the community's too.—
Clara Hendrickson,
Freep.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Royal fans and political observers noted that Tiffany’s place in the processional was five places behind that of her husband, Michael Boulos, People said.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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Thanksgiving can be delightful or draining, a festive feast or a dispiriting dirge.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Nov. 2025
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
Noun
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Meyers, performed works by Bach, Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre alongside Grant Gershon, the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the chorale’s members.—
Camelia Heins,
Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Though the male voices are greater in number, the top notes from the five female singers land as though from a practiced, full-time chorale.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
10 Dec. 2025
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“Oratorio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oratorio. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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