Recent examples include Krzysztof Penderecki's Saint Luke Passion, and Liszt worked in this form to create Christus and The Legend of Saint Elizabeth.  
The form was brought to France by Antoine Charpentier, although Berlioz's Infancy of Christ is the most famous French one.  Recent examples include Krzysztof Penderecki's Saint Luke Passion, and Liszt worked in this form to create Christus and The Legend of Saint Elizabeth.  Other examples include Beethoven's Christ on the Mount of Olives, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Haydn's Creation.  FTP, name this form consisting of a two-act dramatic vocal and orchestral rendition of a sacred subject, a form often associated with Georg Handel.
The form was brought to France by Antoine Charpentier, although Berlioz's Infancy of Christ is the most famous French one.  
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