An oratorio is just sung using solo voice or choral pieces. The Opera uses solos and choral voices too, but involves stage acting as well. For example, Handel's Messiah is an Oratorio ... La Boheme is an Opera.
Both involve singers and an orchestra, and both tell a story.
b. oratorio doesn't include an aria and an opera does.
Music, singing and a story.
Blindekuh - operetta - was created in 1878.
Simplicius - operetta - was created in 1887.
An oratorio is a large vocal and instrumental dramatic work based on a sacred subject. The main difference between an oratorio and an opera is that an oratorio has no staging or costumes.
The most popular oratorio is Handel's Messiah.
Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz are the two composers of the White Horse Inn operetta. They are the only two known composers that have worked on this particular operetta.
They are two completely different genres. An operetta is a staged work with play singing and dancing. An oratorio is a concert work, usually on a religious subject. There is no dancing.
An oratorio is a large musical composition comprised of an orchestra, a choir and soloists. Similar to an Opera in the story telling, but different in it is just music not singing. Baroque references the time frame of 1600-1750 when the oratorio was written.
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Oratorio. The most famous oratorio is undoubtedly Handel's Messiah.
Chilpéric - operetta - was created in 1868.
Katinka - operetta - was created in 1915.
Paganini - operetta - was created in 1925.
Blindekuh - operetta - was created in 1878.
Simplicius - operetta - was created in 1887.
The oratorio, Messiah, by Handel/