Petra Lang was born on 29 November 1962 and is a German opera singer.
11 Facts About Petra Lang
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Petra Lang made an international career in both opera and concert.
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Petra Lang has performed at the Bayreuth Festival from 2005, singing the title role of Isolde in 2016.
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Petra Lang attended the Opernstudio of the Bavarian State Opera, and took master classes with Hans Hotter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Brigitte Fassbaender and Peter Schreier.
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Petra Lang was a member of the Theater Basel from 1990, and from 1992 to 1995 worked at the Theater Dortmund, where she learned many lyrical mezzo-soprano parts.
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Petra Lang appeared as Tamiri in Mozart's Il re pastore at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, as Virtu in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Salzburg Festival, as Fenena in Verdi's Nabucco at the Bregenz Festival and as Flora in Verdi's La traviata at the Zurich Festival.
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Petra Lang was awarded two Grammy Awards in 2002 for singing Cassandre in Les Troyens by Berlioz in a 2000 live recording of the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis.
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Petra Lang performed at the Bayreuth Festival first in 2005 the part of Brangane in Tristan und Isolde.
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Petra Lang recorded alto parts in Advent cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach with John Eliot Gardiner in 1992.
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Petra Lang sang the solo in Mahler's Third Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall on 12 December 2007 with the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky.
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Petra Lang performed the work again in Freiburg with the SWR Orchestra in 2016.