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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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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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The movie isn’t just a paean to a pioneer spirit.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
26 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Big Tech continues to wrestle with mass layoffs, most recently with Amazon’s announcement to slash 16,000 jobs.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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Do mass firings create an atmosphere of fear that impacts voting?—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
30 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
Noun
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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 address was aired after the royal family made their annual processional to St. Mary Magdalene Church.—
Wendy Naugle,
USA Today,
25 Dec. 2025
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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
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 1 Feb. 2026.
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