Oratorio in a sentence as a noun

This is hilarious:If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on the gramophone.

Numbers 1 thru 524 are all cantatas, masses, oratorios, lieder, the many chorales of course, secular and comic cantatas, etc.

The former is a nativity oratorio and the latter is an opera about Oppenheimer and the Manhatten Project.

Oratorio definitions

noun

a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text

See also: cantata