Oedipus Tex is a dramatic oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra with the following scenes.
His performance made the show seem like a dramatic oratorio and, more than anything, it conjured the spirit of Cervantes.
Arthur Honegger entitled his work as a dramatic oratorio, adding speaking roles and actors.
The obvious point of comparison for "Elijah" would be one or more of Handel's great dramatic oratorios.
It is stressed how many great and generally underappreciated works there are among Handel's dramatic oratorios.
Newer audiences saw her as a performer-narrator in dramatic oratorios.
The Polish Requiem could be called a dramatic oratorio or an oratorian music theatre whose main subject is man's attitude to death.
Oedipus Tex is described as the "dramatic oratorio that demonstrates that the only two sure things in life are death and Texas."
On the occasion of the King's wedding in 1762 he composed a dramatic pastoral oratorio, Arcadia.
Honegger - the sixth of Les Six - wrote his dramatic oratorio in the 1930's and made it a hymn to gigantism.