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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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As a paean to the original, a full-scale 85-foot replica of the clocktower will be a star attraction.—
Jonathan DeLise,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Jan. 2026
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Nguyen worries, however, that our urge to quantify the value of our lives and achievements is soul-sucking, and his worries are less fun to read about than his paeans to play.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
14 Jan. 2026
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Upon full passage, the law could trigger immediate mass liberations, with National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez assuring families that releases would occur swiftly post-approval.—
Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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By reproducing photos of Lincoln, Lorant moved beyond the varied mass of subjective artworks — paintings, prints and sculpture — that only approximated his appearance.—
Mark B. Pohlad,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 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
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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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Ecclesiastical themes throughout the show culminate in a series of men’s tunics – a new addition to the show following Dolce&Gabbana’s 2025 presentation processional on Rome’s Aelian Bridge.—
Jane Wooldridge,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2026
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The wedding processional is the beginning of a wedding ceremony when the couple, family, members of the wedding party, and the officiant head down the aisle and take their positions either in their seats or at the altar.—
Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
1 Jan. 2026
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The temperature plunges; Reilly’s trills harden into an Old World dirge.—
Brad Shoup,
Pitchfork,
24 Jan. 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
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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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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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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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“Oratorio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oratorio. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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