The oratorio, meanwhile, has a tumultuous history of its own.
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The oratorio was performed in November 2016 in New York City.
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Rarely will you find an oratorio about fast-shifting current events.
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But for the moment he's working on something more joyful: a Christmas oratorio.
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In this opening act, Mr. Tresnjak maintains the stiff quality of an oratorio.
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Surprisingly, the naturally dramatic oratorio doesn't need much beyond this small but crucial shift.
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Nothing could dethrone Handel's oratorio, but worthy alternatives in choral music are out there.
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The opening night photographer for "Oratorio," or an usher for an April 10 performance?
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The composer Julia Wolfe's new multimedia oratorio concerns the 1911 Triangle shirtwaist factory fire.
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William Christie, stylish in everything he conducts, leads Les Arts Florissants in Haydn's great oratorio.
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Julia Wolfe's new oratorio, "Fire in my mouth," is about the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire.
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Maybe then "Oratorio" will return in some form, even if Eagan can't yet say how.
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This produces the possibility of a Pop symphony or oratorio, with distinct but related movements.
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Ms. Couden moves in and out of the set to observe and comment on the oratorio.
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Opera was the basis of everything that Handel knew, and oratorio was a development through that.
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A drama would be an opera, and a narration would be an oratorio, or a Passion.
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She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for "Anthracite Fields," an oratorio about coal miners in Pennsylvania.
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One who dared was the Swiss master Frank Martin, whose oratorio "Golgotha" had its première in 1949.
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Musical legacy: Largely responsible for the popularity of the oratorio; influence can be seen in Mozart and Haydn.
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He has also reimagined his Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio "the little match girl passion" to incorporate audience participation.
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Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" is an enormous work, six cantatas strung together in a sequence of delicacy and wonder.
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Longtime devotees will flock to Haydn's oratorio "Creation," conducted by James Levine, the orchestra's newly appointed conductor laureate.
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Charles Dutoit led the so-called "dramatic legend in four parts," which defies categorization as oratorio, symphony or opera.
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The jubilant opening to his Christmas Oratorio, with its excited trumpets and timpani, rang in the exchange of presents.
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But Haydn's oratorio tells the tale with wonder and joy and hardly a trace of spiritual angst or questioning.
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Another elegy, an instrumental movement from Steven Stucky's oratorio "August 4, 1964," about Lyndon B. Johnson, opened the program.
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"An oratorio is closer to the idea of ritual in which everything is still"—much like Gericault's painting, he says.
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The oratorio begins with an orchestral arrangement of Schumann's quizzical piano piece "The Prophet Bird," deconstructed and spiked with dissonance.
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As usual, they kicked off a rich New York season of presentations of Handel's great oratorio for the winter holidays.
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Saariaho's other works are celebrated, as well, especially her oratorio, La Passion de Simone, with a libretto by Amin Maalouf.
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Or, depending how you look at it, a surround-sound oratorio — a kind of sonic sculpture — with an accompanying film.
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Another portrait of a 17th-century scientist, this piece is more diffuse than "Galileo," perhaps better classed as an oratorio.
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Arthur Honegger used it in his oratorio about the execution of Joan of Arc, and André Jolivet in his incantatory dances.
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She wrote a number of such works over the years, not just "The Haggadah: A Passover Cantata" and the oratorio "Jerusalem."
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For that he won prizes, producing a cantata on the Samaritan woman, an oratorio on the Apocalypse, and a wind quintet.
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Last February, Mr. Wachner conducted Trinity's forces in Ginastera's grand and rarely heard oratorio "Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam" at Carnegie Hall.
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They pound through Fanny's songs, Felix's new trio, and excerpts from his oratorio Elijah, an instant hit that year in Birmingham.
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The New York concert will include Jonathan Leshnoff's oratorio "Zohar," commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony and Carnegie Hall for the Shaw centenary.
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At the end of his "Messiah" oratorio (1742), George Friedrich Handel laced together a glorious choral fugue from just one word: Amen.
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Hearne's oratorio covers the time between Manning's initial leak in 2010 and subsequent trial in 2013—but not her more recent distress.
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Handel's first oratorio, written when he was just 22, "Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" was never meant to be staged.
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On Friday, these artists were to perform in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's presentation of "Creation/Creator," a new oratorio by Christopher Theofanidis.
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An old-school "Christmas Oratorio" of Bach last November could have made a statement, but turned out to have nothing to say.
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In the solemn second movement, the strings played the unison thematic statement with emphatic sound and clipped articulation, almost like a Baroque oratorio.
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This evergreen oratorio, which for many professional singers is merely an annual exercise, is a journey of discovery for Mr. Hyde's young charges.
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Matías Tarnopolsky, its executive and artistic director, said the context for the new oratorio looks very different now than when it was commissioned.
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Critic's Pick HAMBURG — One reason Schumann's "Scenes From Goethe's 'Faust'" is so rarely performed is its hybrid shape: part literary oratorio, part opera.
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It's Bach in grand style from the Oratorio Society, under its director, Kent Tritle, in the form of the Mass in B minor.
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After that line, the play instantly becomes an obscenity oratorio in which vicious, muscular dialogue, appropriate to its setting, turns into gorgeous music.
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Handel may not have intended to write a Christmas oratorio but, still, we will never be able to separate the "Messiah" from Christmas.
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" It was not until 1997 that the Pulitzer Prize for music went even to a jazz work: Wynton Marsalis's oratorio "Blood on the Fields.
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It will feature a performance of Vivaldi's great oratorio "Juditha Triumphans," with the Venice Baroque Orchestra joined by the estimable New York ensemble Tenet.
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In the Vivaldi program, the Venice Baroque Orchestra and the vocal ensemble Tenet will perform the oratorio "Juditha Triumphans" in Stern on (Feb. 7).
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The Philharmonic program opened with the premiere of an engrossing 55-minute oratorio by the Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos, conducted dynamically by Daniel Harding.
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Ms. Wolfe's previous oratorio about labor in America, "Anthracite Fields," about the hardships faced by Pennsylvania coal miners, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2015.
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On Friday, an even grander event: Mr. Adams's oratorio "Gospel According to the Other Mary," performed by the St. Louis Symphony under David Robertson.
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Sometimes cultures meet gently in this film, as when Karamakate listens to Haydn's "The Creation" oratorio, played quietly in the jungle on a portable phonograph.
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She wrote a number of works on Jewish themes, including "The Haggadah: A Passover Cantata" and "Jerusalem," an oratorio adapted from poems by Yehuda Amichai.
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His most recent purchases–"Für Alina," created by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and "Weihnachtsoratorium," the six-part oratorio by J.S. Bach–reflect this secret interest.
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Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" consists of six cantatas written for various days of Christmastide and not intended to be performed together, as they often are today.
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One oratorio would prompt you to reconsider the story of Christmas; the other, to think twice before ignoring someone in need as you head home.
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" Ms. Wolfe was in the market for scissors to be wielded by the women of the chorus in her new oratorio, "Fire in my mouth.
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He also served on the boards of numerous musical organizations, including the Glimmerglass Opera, the Oratorio Society of New York and the Marilyn Horne Foundation.
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She'll also appear in a chamber version of Mr. Adams's Nativity oratorio "El Niño," and in a program of Langston Hughes poems set to music.
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The other focuses on British music, with Tippett's oratorio "A Child of Our Time" following Sheku Kanneh-Mason as the soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto.
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A music review on Monday about a performance of Handel's oratorio "Jephtha" at St. Paul's Chapel misstated the relationship between two of the work's characters.
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Another piece by Bon, "Oratorio Mare Nostrum" (2019), echoes Tomás Saraceno's work in the Arsenale, using sound to connect the Venetian lagoon and the moon cycles.
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Titled "Halleluja, Oratorium Balbulum" ("Stammering Oratorio"), the surreal text is by the eminent Hungarian writer Peter Esterhazy, who died of cancer on July 14 at 66.
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The oratorio, one of two Bach passions still performed today, was the first he wrote as the cantor of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, in 2111.
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In 1968, he began filming the documentary "Oratorio for Prague," intended as a hymn to the new artistic freedoms under the reformist government of Alexander Dubcek.
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Sheba's image has inspired medieval Christian mythical works, Turkish and Persian paintings, Handel's richly orchestrated oratorio, and even an epic Hollywood romance, Soloman and Sheba (1959).
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Mr. Padrissa was struck, he said in an interview in the program, that the opening of the oratorio is an uncanny depiction of the Big Bang.
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The ambition of "La Susanna," a 17th-century oratorio reimagined by two opera companies for the #MeToo era, is so explicit, it's announced with a sign.
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The thoughtful Julia Bullock, in residence this season at the Met, will present another contemporary holiday oratorio, John Adams's "El Niño," at the Cloisters on Dec.
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When I returned home, I built Handel's oratorio into my holiday ritual, listening to my parents' Neville Marriner recording while wrapping presents or decorating the tree.
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The pioneering Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus gives Haydn's oratorio a theatrical treatment, in which you can expect projections, acrobatics, puppetry and all manner else.
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It comes at the start of the tenor aria that closes the first act of this grand biblical oratorio from 2012, modeled on the Bach Passions.
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Here she is in a sublime recitative and aria from the director Peter Sellars's landmark staging of Handel's dramatic oratorio "Theodora" for the 83 Glyndebourne Festival.
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Eastern time (and later available on demand), Raphaël Pichon conducts the oratorio at the Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles, with vocal soloists and the Ensemble Pygmalion.
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This sacred and profane oratorio of angel-winged songs about heaven, hell and a talk-show host has taken a while to find a berth in Manhattan.
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Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio, "Juditha triumphans" — which the Venice Baroque Orchestra performs on Tuesday — contains glorious music and a blood-soaked libretto lifted from the Old Testament.
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"Anthracite Fields," a five-part oratorio with roots in rock, classical chorales and the avant-garde, may look to the past, but it is anything but nostalgic.
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Her opera-oratorio "La Passion de Simone" (2006) examines the life of Simone Weil, a French philosopher, mystic and political activist who starved herself to death in 1943.
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This was the North American premiere of a staged production of Haydn's 1798 oratorio by Carlus Padrissa, of the Barcelona-based experimental theater group La Fura dels Baus.
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" The piece straddles the line between sacred and secular, as does "the little match girl passion," his Pulitzer-winning oratorio inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and Bach's "St.
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In a gesture both fitting and poignant, the Oratorio Society of New York opened the program, with the dynamic conductor Pablo Heras-Casado leading the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
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Juana's poetry is also featured in John Adams's 2000 nativity oratorio, "El Niño," nearly as teeming as "Theater of the World"; the two works share a frenetic, patchwork quality.
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The New York Philharmonic presents Mozart's Requiem (March 13-303), and the conductor Kent Tritle follows up with Fauré's (April 9) and Verdi's (with the Oratorio Society , May 9).
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Ms. Wolfe, 57, who goes by Julie, just won a MacArthur fellowship to go with her 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her oratorio "Anthracite Fields," about coal mining in Pennsylvania.
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He was one of the three featured vocalists in the touring ensemble that performed Wynton Marsalis's jazz oratorio "Blood on the Fields," which received a Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
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A recitative in his "Christmas Oratorio" proclaims that a believer's heart should safeguard the biblical account of the miracle of Christ's birth "as a sure demonstration ['Beweis']" of salvation.
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" AT 4 MINUTES 53 SECONDS The South African soprano Golda Schultz, new to me, was a consistent joy in the Cleveland Orchestra's recent presentation of Haydn's oratorio "The Seasons.
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On Wednesday the focus shifted to the elder Bach, with two-thirds of his "Christmas Oratorio" presented by Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan at Alice Tully Hall.
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"Semele" was a hybrid, adapted from an existing opera libretto by William Congreve, though Handel stipulated that it be presented at Covent Garden in the manner of an oratorio.
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But the piece grows slack and ponderous as it consciously reaches at the status of oratorio and Mass, with phrases from Genesis woven into the imagery and musical fabric.
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Its creator, the artist Lena Herzog, calls it "an oratorio for vanishing voices, collapsing universes and a falling tree" — as good a classification as any for an unclassifiable work.
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The oratorio, with a libretto by Gene Scheer, explores a tragic coincidence: On the same August day, the bodies of three young civil rights workers were discovered near Philadelphia, Miss.
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And Prospero understands that an oratorio commissioned from Mr Widmann by the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg's new concert hall, for its opening in January next year will also feature the glass harmonica.
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"Night of Large Ensembles," in the same room on Saturday, will feature the premiere of "Rosa Parks — Oratorio," by Wadada Leo Smith, as well as the Taylor Ho Bynum PlusTet.
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Here, Mr. Eotvos's babbling oratorio intertwined with Thomas Adès's opera "The Exterminating Angel," which had a stunning premiere last week; it depicts an entitled elite, silent about injustices in society.
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All of the programming is worthwhile, but this performance of Bach's frequently overlooked "Christmas Oratorio," spread out with two of six parts per lunchtime performance, ought to be especially interesting.
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Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio on the plight of Pennsylvania's coal miners is justly receiving numerous performances, not least because its politically charged content speaks to our present moment.
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Not a lot of Draghi's music has found its way to YouTube, though there is a staged performance of a larger scenic oratorio, "La Vita Nella Morte" ("Life in Death").
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The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will perform that oratorio under the baton of Jeannette Sorrell on Sunday; the show will be livestreamed on the Orchestra's website beginning at 3 p.m.
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On November 19th and 20th, the International Contemporary Ensemble and students from the Mannes School of Music will perform "La Passion de Simone," her oratorio in honor of Simone Weil.
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Ted Hearne's WikiLeaks oratorio "The Source," a driving and simmering reflection on the Iraq war that broods without settling for easy answers, feels as if it were in Mr. Rzewski's lineage.
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Los Angeles will later present the endearing oratorio "El Niño" and the seminal opera "Nixon in China," which will also return to Houston Grand Opera, the site of its 1987 premiere.
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SETH COLTER WALLS Of all the miracles Haydn gives musical voice to in his oratorio "Die Schöpfung" ("The Creation"), none is more unfathomable than the first: creating something out of nothing.
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Saint-Saëns thought this biblical story of a fateful love affair, set against the backdrop of enslaved Israelites and their Philistine oppressors, would best be presented as a stirring concert oratorio.
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He was hoping to talk to students as he prepared to create "Dreamer," an oratorio designed to reflect the inspiration that fuels the experience of immigrants, and the challenges they face.
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Just before Christmas, Ms. Bullock will appear in a chamber version of Mr. Adams's Nativity oratorio "El Niño," which will be performed at the Cloisters with the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.
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Accordingly, she began taking vocal classes and subsequently joined the Oratorio Society of New Jersey — she's an alto — and has been learning the intricacies of singing duets and four-part harmonies.
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One of its most ambitious offerings this season will be "Dreamers," an oratorio it commissioned about the lives of young, undocumented immigrants by the composer Jimmy López and the playwright Nilo Cruz.
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Mr. Wachner's take on the score is fresh and urgent, and members of the nimble professional choir step out to sing solos, creating a sense of the oratorio as town hall meeting.
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And since 2014, the secular oratorio "Le Vin Herbé," Martin's pared down but poignant take on the Tristan legend, has been mounted by opera houses in Boston, Chicago and Long Beach, Calif.
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He retired from singing in 2005, three days before Christmas, with a performance of Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" in Prague, conducting the orchestra and chorus while also singing the role of the Evangelist.
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"It's a portrait of Cain," Mr. Castellucci said of Scarlatti's 1707 oratorio, an account of the Cain and Abel story, in an interview under the ornate chandeliers of the Garnier's grand foyer.
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Called "Threads," it was related — at least a little — to last week's premiere of "Fire in my mouth," a new oratorio by Julia Wolfe inspired by the 1911 Triangle shirtwaist factory fire.
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The concert on Saturday will include a work jointly commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony and Carnegie Hall for the Shaw centenary: "Zohar," an oratorio by Jonathan Leshnoff, a composer increasingly familiar to Atlantans.
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It is originally from the Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible, but I first came upon it in the oratorio "Elijah" by Mendelssohn, who figures in the historical part of the novel.
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The instrumentalists added a sinfonia from Handel's oratorio "Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" ("The Triumph of Time and Truth") to start and the Chaconne from his ballet prologue "Terpsichore" to close.
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In the next big event, on June 12, one of the cantata interpreters, Masaaki Suzuki, led his Bach Collegium Japan in Mendelssohn's great oratorio "Elijah," at the Gewandhaus, the city's main concert hall.
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Shostakovich took up the call in his "Song of the Forests" from 1949, an oratorio that glorified Soviet forestation campaigns in Siberia through pleasing, triumphant harmonies and an easy-to-understand text setting.
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Last season, Wachner resurrected the composer's clamorous Passion oratorio, "Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam"; this spring, a slew of Ginastera works will appear at Trinity, notably in the "Concerts at One" series, on Thursdays.
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"I played her some melodies and told her it was an oratorio for one voice and a symphonic orchestra," Mr. Legrand, 245, recently said in a phone interview from his country home near Paris.
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Such a small scale may sound nothing like "El Niño," a sweeping, nearly two-hour Nativity oratorio written for vocal soloists, a trio of countertenors, a full orchestra and choir, and a children's chorus.
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She also co-wrote the libretto for "Hopscotch: An Opera for 24 Cars," and wrote the libretto for the Los Angeles Master Chorale's oratorio "dreams of the new world" with the composer Ellen Reid.
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He is one of the finest modern conductors of Bach; with the Dunedin Consort, based in Edinburgh, he has made incisive, expressive recordings of the Passions, the B-Minor Mass, and the Christmas Oratorio.
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Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra performed Edward Elgar's "The Apostles" in 2017, and they follow it up here with the second oratorio from the sacred trilogy that British composer planned but never finished.
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Instead he was in Dallas, where on that same night the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, under Jaap van Zweden, presented the premiere of a major Stucky work: "August 4, 1964," a 70-minute oratorio.
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Last November, after the Philadelphia Orchestra played "One Land, One River, One People," a quirkily mystical new oratorio by the American jazz-classical musician who goes by Hannibal, the composer bounded onstage for a bow.
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But in Yunnan province in the south-west, choirs from an ethnic group called the Miao (also known as the Hmong) still sing Handel's oratorio "Messiah", which was taught to them generations ago by missionaries.
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This week alone you can hear Handel's "Messiah" from the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall, the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall and Apollo's Fire at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The symphony was also Mr. Lang's latest foray into community music, such as the recent reimagining of his Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio "the little match girl passion" (2007) to add familiar songs for audience participation.
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It was as a high school exchange student in Pittsburgh that I first encountered Handel's oratorio, at a "Messiah" singalong where your voice type, rather than your ticket, determined where you sat in the hall.
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Ted Hearne has made himself a vital, politically inclined composer with pieces like his oratorio about Chelsea Manning, "The Source," and "Sound From the Bench," a cantata decrying the corporate takeover of the Supreme Court.
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From its premiere, in 1846, its composer was resigned to this fantastical work — a "légende dramatique," he called it, not quite an opera or an oratorio — being played in concert rather than in full production.
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But it's probably another query that will loom largest in your mind as you watch this 90-minute rock oratorio: How did the immense talents behind "Here Lies Love" come up with something so inert?
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The piece, which draws on British and Continental traditions—Smyth was a committed cosmopolitan—is hard to categorize: Smyth called it a "symphony," but it's closer to a tone poem, with elements of cantata and oratorio.
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It may have been the first time that the composition of an oratorio — the kind of grand choral work Bach, Handel and Haydn are all famous for — was interrupted by an appearance of the border patrol.
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Enter Dr. Beatrice Armstrong: the name given here to the role of Testo, the narrator of the oratorio, previously sung by a man (as all the parts were) but now taken up by the contralto Sara Couden.
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Two "Messiahs" at Carnegie Hall followed, both conducted by Kent Tritle: one with the Oratorio Society of New York, featuring a 200-member amateur choir, the other with the professional group Musica Sacra, accompanied on period instruments.
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On May 19163, the Staatskapelle Berlin, under its music director, Daniel Barenboim, will perform "La Damoiselle Élue," which Debussy called a "little oratorio," and the "Trois Ballades de François Villon," among the few songs he orchestrated himself.
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Julia Bullock's residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has already garnered resounding praise for its consummate artistry and its social conscience, and its high standards ought to continue in these performances of John Adams's Nativity oratorio.
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A collaboration with the poet Saul Williams and the director Patricia McGregor, this characteristically post-genre oratorio confronts Hearne's history growing up in Chicago and living in Fort Greene, Brooklyn — the neighborhood surrounding BAM — during periods of gentrification.
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On Thursday, despite snowy, sleety weather, Alice Tully Hall was nearly full for the sold-out performance of Haydn's oratorio "The Creation," presented by the conductor William Christie and his Les Arts Florissants chorus and period-instrument orchestra.
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And on Thursday New York Baroque Incorporated added a grand finale of sorts, performing Bonaventura Aliotti's 1687 oratorio "Santa Rosalia" at Trinity Church on lower Broadway, in what it was probably safe to call a United States premiere.
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Balotelli returned, then, not only to a city that had always been happy to call him "one of our own," as one staff member at the Oratorio said, but one that had grown comfortable in its polychrome skin.
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"It is not possible to ignore the image of that restless and talented child who looked at the Rigamonti from the pitch of the Oratorio in Mompiano, dreaming of Brescia," the journalist Stefano Scacchi wrote in La Repubblica.
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This month his image was beamed onto a giant fabric screen at the Dutch National Opera, as a chorus of 115 singers, illuminated in the background like ghostly apparitions, performed Hans Werner Henze's surging oratorio "Das Floss der Medusa".
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Her 2005 oratorio "Steel Hammer," ruminating on the mysteries surrounding the legend of John Henry, combines neo-medieval chant and stylized folk instrumentation: bristling banjo, shards of harmonica, sole taps on one musician's shoes for an evocation of clogging.
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The Bang on a Can All-Stars, which she co-founded, performs her oratorio "Anthracite Fields" —a conjuring of hardscrabble coal-mining life in early-twentieth-century Pennsylvania—alongside the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, at Zankel Hall (Dec. 1).
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Ms. Saariaho wrote the piece for Mr. Salonen, inspired by his 2009 performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic of her oratorio "La Passion de Simone," which explores the life and writings of the Jewish French philosopher and social activist Simone Weil.
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Heartbeat Opera has made a specialty of reinterpreting operas from the past in light of the present, and their staging here of Alessandro Stradella's 1681 oratorio is no exception: It's a tale of sex and power rethought for the #MeToo moment.
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In the lead-up to the evening's world premiere of an oratorio by the British composer Emily Howard, commissioned by the festival, the theater collective ANU devised a series of 15 short theatrical "interventions" that explore the protest's contemporary importance.
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After his oratorio about Chelsea Manning, Mr. Hearne, one of our more interesting young composers, continues exploring the events of the day with "Sound From the Bench," a cantata based in part on the oral arguments of Citizens United v.
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A raw, often experimental Passion oratorio that has been extensively revised since its premiere in 2012, "The Gospel" conflates the story of Jesus's death with more recent texts on themes of social justice by authors including Dorothy Day and Primo Levi.
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This Baroque oratorio, staged inside the Baroque-inspired Palais Garnier, was directed by Romeo Castellucci — more on that next week — and conducted by René Jacobs, who recorded the piece with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in the late 1990s.
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St. Michan's attracts around 28,000 paying visitors a year, who come to tour its small but historically significant interior, which includes the organ on which George Frideric Handel wrote his "Messiah" oratorio, and view the mummified bodies in their open coffins.
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Gaetano Grado, a mafia member and informant, claimed that Caravaggio's "Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence" (1600) — infamously stolen in 1969 from the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily — was cut into pieces and sold to a Swiss art dealer.
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Here, Henze's oratorio about the shipwrecked conscripts of the frigate Medusa in 1816 — you probably know the classic Géricault painting — was connected to contemporary political concerns by a film of Mr. Castellucci's, projected on a scrim at the front of the stage.
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The biggest ticket, though, may be the National Symphony Orchestra performing John Adams's potent oratorio "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" under Gianandrea Noseda, himself in the midst of a promising first season as the orchestra's music director (March 8 and 10).
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Last Saturday at Corpus Christi Church, the Academy of Sacred Drama performed "Giuditta," a small, attractive oratorio by Antonio Draghi (1634-1700), based on the biblical Book of Judith and recounting in a few simple strokes the heroine's beheading of the tyrant Holofernes.
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"Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance," composed by Graham Reynolds and with a libretto by the collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, is a cozy, bilingual, semistaged oratorio for two singers (including the soaringly sweet tenor Paul Sanchez) and a rollicking roadhouse band.
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But the composer has also gotten increasingly into community music — you may remember his "the public domain," which comprised 1,000 amateur voices, at Lincoln Center last year — so he has reimagined the oratorio to include audience participation for this year's performance on Dec.
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But the gifted Mr. Tritle, who also does an annual "Messiah" with his amateur chorus, the 200-voice Oratorio Society of New York, soon came to seem overexposed if not overextended, and Musica Sacra's performances have lost urgency and a sense of occasion.
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So here again — in a performance of his 1708 oratorio "La Resurrezione" by the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra at the New England Conservatory — was a boffo tune last heard in a production of Handel's 1709 opera "Agrippina" by Juilliard Opera, in February.
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In 503, when Clara Longstreth led the New Amsterdam Singers in "Golgotha," the composer's Passion oratorio, at Trinity Church in New York, it was only the third performance here since the Dessoff Choirs gave the American premiere at Carnegie Hall in 1952.
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A mile or so east is the Oratorio del Mompiano, the sports club where he first played soccer, and to which he has always gone back, without fanfare and often without warning, to watch the children who dream of following his path.
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Fifty years ago, Al Carmines, a minister at the Judson Memorial Church and a key figure in the Off Off Broadway movement, premiered a holiday oratorio that captures, as he put it, "the human interest and the joy" of the nativity story.
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Lively entries that have appeared before include HA HA HA, ORATORIO, BATTER UP, BAR CAR, IN GAME, FIRE SALE, RAT'S NEST, BOLO TIE, HOT DOGGER, GOOD REASON, TEAR GAS and GESTATE, which is a word that never fails to crack me up for some reason.
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Mr. Salonen and the Philharmonia musicians, too, lifted the score, bringing to this oratorio the same energy and enthusiasm they had in a virtually flawless performance of Schoenberg and Bruckner the evening before, and in Stravinsky's "Firebird" on the second half of Sunday's concert.
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On March 12, after just two previews, it paused production of the music-theater piece on its Greenwich Village stage, Heather Christian's "Oratorio for Living Things," and halted all activity at its headquarters in Hell's Kitchen, an incubator for emerging artists and their work.
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In 2014 it hosted the premiere of a work that has stayed with me ever since: Ted Hearne's WikiLeaks oratorio, "The Source," a brooding, bursting reflection on Chelsea Manning and her epochal revelations that fully inhabited the space, making it seem looming and claustrophobic.
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Historical tidbits: The second American performance of Handel's oratorio is said to have taken place in October 1770 at Trinity, with the first held the previous January, just a few blocks away at a tavern, to raise money for a bankrupt former church employee.
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For the finale of the orchestra's 99th season, essentially the lead-in to this year's centennial extravaganza, Dudamel was putting on "Das Paradies und die Peri," Schumann's gigantic concert oratorio: nearly two hours long, renowned singers in dramatic roles, a huge chorus, shattering climaxes, tunes for days.
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The Carnegie repertory this week is substantial but low-key: on Tuesday, Mahler's Ninth Symphony and the New York premiere of a work commissioned for the occasion, "Stromab," by the Austrian composer Johannes Maria Staud; and on Wednesday Haydn's oratorio "The Seasons," with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.
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Earlier this year, at Dutch National Opera's Opera Forward Festival in Amsterdam, I was dazzled by his oratorio "The Raft of the Medusa" in its grandly orchestrated 1990 revision; the only in-print recording of the work is a comparatively skeletal 1960s version on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Oddly, because I was otherwise occupied during his visits to the Philharmonic, I have seen him conduct only new music: Steven Stucky's Lyndon B. Johnson oratorio, "August 4, 1964," of 2008, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which he currently directs (along with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra).
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In addition to the Stockhausen, there was another avant-garde rarity on the program: a staged version of Hans Werner Henze's oratorio "Das Floss der Medusa" ("The Raft of the Medusa"), created during the peak of the composer's engagement with late-1960s leftist radicalism (and later revised, in 1990).
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Highlights include a phantasmagoric staging of Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" by the Catalan theater group La Fura dels Baus; dance works by Lucinda Childs and Mark Morris; and a free performance in Central Park of a new John Luther Adams choral piece for 800 amateur and professional singers.
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Some "Carnaval" singers also doubled in an excellent performance of Handel's early oratorio "La Resurrezione" on Thursday evening at the New England Conservatory: Ms. Wakim as Mary Magdalene, Mr. Sheehan as St. John, Karina Gauvin as the Angel and Christian Immler (a devilish Plutone in Campra's underworld) as Lucifer.
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CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Celebrating its centennial in 2018, this peerlessly refined ensemble — perhaps America's best — arrives at Carnegie Hall under Franz Welser-Möst for a pair of programs that include a broad span of music, from Haydn's oratorio "The Seasons" to a new work by Johannes Maria Staud, by way of Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
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When he wants to — among dozens of examples, think of the shining final children's chorus of his Nativity oratorio, "El Niño"; the British Dancing Girl's chirpy number in "The Death of Klinghoffer"; Pat Nixon's statuesque aria, "This Is Prophetic," from "Nixon in China" — he can create earworm melodies the equal of Puccini's.
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The idea, with Mr. Wachner again conducting the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, is to perform the works an act at a time at weekly intervals, and that first outing was to have brought the first act of "Jephtha," Handel's last new oratorio and generally considered one of his greatest.
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The soprano Julia Bullock is in the midst of a hotly anticipated and now widely celebrated five-event residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she has already performed traditional slave songs, settings of poetry by Langston Hughes, a new version of John Adams's oratorio "El Niño," and a bevy of other contemporary works.
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The program he led, which lasted 75 minutes without intermission, combined works that showed the diversity of classical music, like Steven Stucky's somberly beautiful "Elegy" from the 2008 oratorio "August 4, 1964," and a few greatest hits, like the insistent first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Wagner's exhilarating "Ride of the Valkyries," performed here to the hilt.
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ORATORIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, MAY 8 You did not need to be a dogmatic one-voice-per-part minimalist when it comes to Bach choruses to worry that 203 choristers on the Carnegie Hall stage for the Mass in B minor would inevitably inject some chaos into music in which clarity of line and rhythm is all-important.
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Not only will the St. Louis Symphony present a concert performance of Adams's oratorio "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" (March 31); he will also be part of "Three Generations," a four-concert series (March 30, April 6, April 19, and April 26) that celebrates the colossal achievements of minimalists and post-minimalists both young and old.
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The performance was part of the soprano Julia Bullock's residency at the Met this season: a series of programs including settings of the words of black artists from the South and fresh versions of traditional slave songs; a reflection on the legacy of Josephine Baker; "El Niño," John Adams's exploration of the Nativity story; and Hans Werner Henze's oratorio about a runaway slave.
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