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Jean-Baptiste Moreau, with a libretto by Jean Racine; the other an oratorio by Handel, with an English libretto by poet Samuel Humphreys.
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Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
Opera Idaho presents Critical Mass Vocal Artists in a performance of the three-part oratorio composed by Craig Hella Johnson.
—Michelle Jenkins, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
Equal parts requiem, oratorio, and manifesto, Angel Island tells the collective story of Chinese immigrants held at a notorious detention center in San Francisco Bay.
—An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
Composer Alice Parker, who created arrangements of traditional hymns, as well as operas, oratorios and song cycles — one inspired by the sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. — is dead at 98.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
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Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
Opera Idaho presents Critical Mass Vocal Artists in a performance of the three-part oratorio composed by Craig Hella Johnson.
—Michelle Jenkins, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
Equal parts requiem, oratorio, and manifesto, Angel Island tells the collective story of Chinese immigrants held at a notorious detention center in San Francisco Bay.
—An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
Composer Alice Parker, who created arrangements of traditional hymns, as well as operas, oratorios and song cycles — one inspired by the sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. — is dead at 98.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
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