Oratorios
HWV | Title | Premiere | Venue | Libretto | Text | Notes |
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46a | Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno | 1707-06-00June 1707 | Rome | Benedetto Pamphili | ||
46b | Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità | 1737-03-1717 March 1737 | London | Benedetto Pamphili | ||
47 | La resurrezione | 1708-04-088 April 1708 | Rome | Carlo Sigismondo Capece | ||
48 | Brockes Passion | 1719-03-2323 March 1719 | Hamburg Cathedral (possibly) | Barthold Heinrich Brockes | ||
50a | Esther | 1718-00-00?1718 | probably Cannons | John Arbuthnot | IMSLP. Based on Alexander Pope's work. | Originally a masque. |
50b | Esther | 1732-05-021 May 1732 | King's Theatre, London | John Arbuthnot | IMSLP. Based on Alexander Pope's work. | Contains additions by S. Humphreys |
51 | Deborah | 1733-02-2121 February 1733 | King's Theatre, London | Samuel Humphreys | Stanford | |
52 | Athalia | 1733-07-1010 July 1733 | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford | Jean Racine? | Stanford | |
53 | Saul | 1739-01-1616 January 1739 | King's Theatre, London | Charles Jennens | Stanford | |
54 | Israel in Egypt | 1739-04-044 April 1739 | King's Theatre, London | Charles Jennens? | Stanford | |
55 | L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato | 1740-02-2727 February 1740 | Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | Charles Jennens | Stanford. Based on John Milton's work. | |
56 | Messiah | 1742-04-1313 April 1742 | New Music Hall, Dublin | Charles Jennens | Stanford | |
57 | Samson | 1743-02-1818 February 1743 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Newburgh Hamilton | Stanford | |
58 | Semele | 1744-02-1010 February 1744 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | William Congreve | Stanford | An opera catalogued as an oratorio |
59 | Joseph and his Brethren | 1744-03-022 March 1744 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | James Miller | Stanford | |
60 | Hercules | 1745-01-055 January 1745 | King's Theatre, London | Thomas Broughton | Stanford | |
61 | Belshazzar | 1745-03-2727 March 1745 | King's Theatre, London | Charles Jennens | Stanford | |
62 | Occasional Oratorio | 1746-02-1414 February 1746 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Newburgh Hamilton | Stanford | |
63 | Judas Maccabaeus | 1747-04-011 April 1747 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Thomas Morell | Stanford | |
64 | Joshua | 1748-03-099 March 1748 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Thomas Morell | Stanford | |
65 | Alexander Balus | 1748-03-2323 March 1748 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Thomas Morell | Stanford | |
66 | Susanna | 1749-02-1010 February 1749 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Newburgh Hamilton? | Stanford | |
67 | Solomon | 1749-03-1717 March 1749 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Newburgh Hamilton? | Stanford | |
68 | Theodora | 1750-03-1616 March 1750 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Thomas Morell | Stanford | |
69 | The Choice of Hercules | 1751-03-011 March 1751 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Thomas Morell? | Stanford | |
70 | Jephtha | 1752-02-2626 February 1752 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Thomas Morell | Stanford | |
71 | The Triumph of Time and Truth | 1757-03-1111 March 1757 | Covent Garden Theatre, London | Thomas Morell? | Stanford |
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