The concert, with Kurt Masur conducting, ushers in a Mendelssohn festival, which includes the orchestra's first performances of the composer's "St. Paul" oratorio.

Handel performed here, including the first performance of his third oratorio 'Athalia (oratorio)' in 1733.

The concert is Andrew Megill's first as music director, and the chorus's first performance of Josef Haydn's oratorio, "The Creation."

He was a member of the orchestra engaged for a performance of Saint-Saëns's oratorio La lyre et la harpe, to be conducted by the composer.

Mr. Levine had last conducted the orchestra in 1998 in a performance of Haydn's oratorio "The Creation."

Handel arrived in Dublin in 1742 to superintend the first performance of his famous oratorio.

The company was to open its new season on Sept. 23 with a staged performance of Honegger's oratorio "Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher."

In the same year Stanford directed the first performance of his oratorio The Resurrection, given by CUMS.

Her last known public appearance was on March 27, 1808, attending a performance of Haydn's oratorio The Creation conducted by Salieri, in tribute to the now-elderly composer.

Boston's Handel and Haydn Society, for example, gave 55 performances of his oratorio David during the 1830s.