Opera And Oratorio Poem by gershon hepner

Opera And Oratorio



An oratorio’s moral values make
it more uplifting than Italian opera
that’s often so immoral it awakes
bad feelings oratorios make properer.

Introducing a stellar LA Opera production of Handel “Tamerlano” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion conducted by William Lacey, with Placido Domingo, Patricia Bardon, Bejun Mehta, Sarah Coburn and Jennifer Holloway, and an orchestra containing two theoboros which all came to the stage to take a bow at the end of the performance, Alan Chapman explained that Handel’s oratorios superseded his Italian operas in England in the 1730s because oratorios provided a moral message that appealed to the Protestant English middle class, in contrast to the questionable moral message delivered by his Italian operas.

12/2/09

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