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	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Petra Lang
		In 2002 Petra Lang won Grammy Awards and the Brit and Gramophone Award for her role as Cassandra in the live recording of Berlioz' Les Troyens with the London Symphony Orchestra.
		Petra joins Jenni to tell her what it's been like to reprise this role at the Proms and how a spelling mistake led to her being a singer in the first place.
		Petra Lang peforms with Sir Colin Davis at the BBC proms in the Royal Albert Hall on 25 August.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/2003_33_mon_04.shtml (120 words)

	Petra Lang (Mezzo-soprano) - Short Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Petra Lang’s considerable operatic credits include the Netherlands and the Flemish Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, Grand Théâtre de Genève, La Scala di Milano, Berlin’s State Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Baltimore Opera.
		During the 1992-1995 seasons Petra Lang has appeared as Octavian, Fricka in both Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Waltraute in Die Götterdämmerung, Judith in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Marie in Berg’s Wozzeck and Eboli in Don Carlo at the Dortmund and Braunschweig Opera.
		In October 1998 Petra Lang made her Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut singing Waltraute under Bernard Haitink, in December 1999 she has appeared as Amneris under Pinchas Steinberg in Geneva, in January 2000 as Waltraute under Christian Thielemann in Berlin and in March 2000 as Venus in Wagner’s Tannhäuser under Christian Badea in Baltimore.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Lang-Petra.htm (364 words)

	Petra Lang \| Biography E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mezzo-Soprano Petra Lang was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
		Petra Lang won two 2002 Grammy Awards for her interpretation of Cassandra as part of London Symphony's live recording of Berlioz' Les Troyens conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
		Petra Lang has performed with some of the most prestigious orchestras in Europe and the US such as the Philadelphia, Dallas and Chicago Symphony, the Munich, Berlin, Vienna, London and Israel Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
	www.badix.ch /voc/lang/bio_e.html (358 words)

	Petra Lang's Opera Web Site
		Born in Frankfurt, Petra Lang began her music studies with the violin before she went on to study Voice with Gertie Charlent at the Music Academy of Darmstadt.
		Petra Lang's operatic credits include the Netherlands and the Flemish Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, Grand Théâtre de Genève, La Scala di Milano, Berlin's State Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Baltimore Opera.
		Petra enjoys a reputation as being a sensitive lieder interpreter, and has given recitals in Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet, Austria's Schubertiade Feldkirch, Edinburgh Festival, New York's Carnegie Hall, at the Bards Festival and throughout her native Germany.
	www.petralang.org (407 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Taken from live performances in London in December, 2000 (but with nary a sound from the audience), you might think that since Colin Davis previously led an almost ideal recording of the work (released in 1969) this might be superfluous.
		From Lang's very first utterance--"Les Grecs ont disparu!", spit out with venom--her obsessive nature, passion, and visionary position is clear, and she never lets up.
		Her duet with Corebus in the person of the spectacular Peter Mattei (who, like Lang, sings rings around his counterpart in the earlier recording) is magnificent, her suicide as startling as it should be.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=4908 (345 words)

	Mahler: Symphony No. 2 & Totenfeier \| Gustav Mahler, Riccardo Chailly, ... \| Chailly continues...
		Another highlight is Petra Lang's singing of Urlicht, the fourth movement's song from Youth's Magic Horn, where she's perfection itself.
		Here he does a splendid job with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in yielding a vibrant, brilliant interpretation that should be commended for his skill in gently emphasizing every phrase, as though this work was a piece composed for a chamber orchestra.
		The soloists, especially Petra Lang, are strongly commended for their exquisite phrasing.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/xbffffnxysjb (1026 words)

	Grandi Tenori.com \| Kurtzman: Berlioz in New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Petra Lang sang her two big solos with style and beauty of voice.
		German Mezzosoprano Petra Lang sang with style and beauty of voice in Faust.
		American conductor James Levine, Musical Director at the Met and in head of the Met Orchestra in Les Troyens in March.
	www.grandi-tenori.com /articles/articles_kurtzman_berlioz_02.htm (1138 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Classical: Petra Lang
		It was inevitable that the focus of interest in Petra Lang's recital would be her performance of Wagner's Wesendonk Lieder.
		Lang and her pianist Charles Spencer immerse us in their hothouse atmosphere.
		Yet if we pigeonhole Lang as a Wagnerian we do her a Disservice.
	www.guardian.co.uk /edinburghfestival2001/story/0,10640,540202,00.html (248 words)

	Baltimore Opera: Tannhäuser
		Ironically, Petra Lang, singer in the role, though, did not seem too loving, as she had this scowl on her face and a haughty aura about her.
		There was no warm, loving, coaxing type of relationship between this Venus (Petra Lang) and this Tannhäuser (Jon Frederic West).
		Lang has a beautiful voice, though, and if this had been an audio recording, instead of me watching her perform live, I would have been more impressed with her.
	operajamboree.ragbert.com /jan6.html (1369 words)

	Roderic Dunnett is impressed by Strauss's 'Ariadne auf Naxos' at Covent Garden
		Would that Ariadne herself (the splendid-sounding German mezzo Petra Lang, seen last season at the Royal Opera as Tristan and Isolde's Brangane) could move as well as sing : her lament was blissfully doom-laden.
		The perkiness of the male 'comics', evenly matched, more than made up; so did the orchestra, peppered in softer moments by Strauss's mutters of clarinet and deft whispers of paired flutes (a foretaste of Berg to come).
		Petra Lang in the title role of the Covent Garden production of 'Ariadne auf Naxos'.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2002/12/ariadne4.htm (306 words)

	classical music - andante - lso live's magnificent les troyens
		Michelle de Young and Ben Heppner take these roles: both are excellent, though Heppner always sounds his best when most fully stretched — his tone is not always pretty when he sings at low dynamic levels.
		A word, too, for Sara Mingardo as Dido's sister Anna (a wonderfully rich timbre), for Petra Lang's ominous sounding Cassandra, and for the short but very sweet appearance of Toby Spence as Hylas, the young Phrygian sailor who sings yearningly at the beginning of the final, tumultuous act.
		Michelle DeYoung (mezzo) — Dido, Ben Heppner (tenor) — Aeneas, Petra Lang (mezzo) — Cassandra/Ghost of Cassandra et al; London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16363 (798 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: 2000 Les Troyens Live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Petra Lang as Cassandra is attention-grabbing from the start of the opera with her panache and commitment.
		Lang's Cassandre is fabulous, fiery, crazed and ultimately triumphant.
		Petra Lang is a vivid Cassandra, using her dark mezzo to great effect.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000063DQA (2361 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mahler - Symphony No 3; Bach Suite [SACD]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Performed by Prague Philharmonic Choir / Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra with Petra Lang, Netherlands Children's Choir
		The soloist Petra Lang carries the Nietzsche movement off at a high level of vocal and interpretive insight.
		Petra Lang continues her artistry in the next movement, joined by the children's chorus and the women.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001RBVLY (1547 words)

	Bach - Cantatas BWV 36, 61, 62 ~ Advent / Argenta, P. Lang, Rolfe Johnson, Bär, The Monteverdi Choir, The English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bach - Cantatas BWV 36, 61, 62 ~ Advent / Argenta, P. Lang, Rolfe Johnson, Bär, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Sol...
		Bach - Cantatas BWV 36, 61, 62 ~ Advent / Argenta, P. Lang, Rolfe Johnson, Bär, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner
		Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, Nancy Argenta, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Petra Lang, Olaf Bär, The English Baroque Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir
	www.aaamusicssearch.com /suid/cd/B00004YYPV (185 words)

	2005 BAYREUTH FESTIVAL: Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin and Parsifal; Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Her warm-timbred soprano was lyrical, wild and passionate in turn, always secure in intonation and showing no signs of pressure even up top.
		Petra Lang, making her Bayreuth debut at Brangäne, was nearly equal to Stemme, with her gleaming rich mezzo.
		Robert Dean Smith's Tristan sounded pleasant enough on the ear but lacked any real charisma, while Kwangchul Youn was a good, solid, dependable King Marke who lacked the noble grandeur required to make the role really tragic.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2005/Jul-Dec05/bayreuth05.htm (1530 words)

	Riccardo Chailly Live RCOA recordings
		Petra Lang, mezzo-soprano; Prague Philharmonic Chorus; Netherlands Children's Choir; Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly, cond.
		Ohne Hast), superbly played by Fritz Damrow, is heard effectively from the rear as well as the front (it is supposed to be distant).
		Likewise, the choruses in the fifth movement also come from the rear as well as the front; mezzo-soprano Petra Lang is clearly positioned in front.
	classicalcdreview.com /MC111.html (753 words)

	Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The cast here more or less replicated the one he favoured in his concert performances with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican three years ago: Ben Heppner was again Aeneas, Michelle DeYoung Dido, and Petra Lang Cassandra.
		It was not perfect casting - the French diction sometimes left a bit to be desired - but it is hard to imagine assembling a much better line-up in one place at one time.
		Heppner is pretty much unrivalled at the moment, endlessly ardent, wonderfully supple of tone and phrasing, while Lang delivers all her imprecations with a tone of unchallengeable authority and commitment.
	www.benheppner.com /Reviews7.html (416 words)

	Mahler 3 [Hybrid SACD] \| Classical Music Online
		The important brass section is weighty, the posthorn solo done with moving lyricism.
		The strings are simply radiant, as is the chorus and the important vocal contribution of mezzo Petra Lang.
		Except for Petra Lang's arrestingly sexy singing in the fourth movement - not necessarily what Mahler had in mind, but it will certainly make you pay attention!
	www.onlineclassical.com /ItemId/B0001RBVLY (466 words)

	Writer Info
		Aged 22, he is currently working toward a B.A. in creative writing at Eugene Lang College.
		He currently administers Koja Press, and is an Associate Professor of English and Philosophy and the Artistic Director of the Visiting Writers Program for the State University of New York at Farmingdale.
		Petra Backonja has work in Aught, Word For/Word, Generator and forthcoming in Big Bridge and Phoebe.
	www.moriapoetry.com /writer.htm (11682 words)

	classical music - andante - berlioz: les troyens
		Without exception, the performers rose to what was an extraordinary occasion.
		It is hard to imagine a more potent or heart-rending Cassandra than Petra Lang.
		Apparently she had learnt the part in a few weeks, but she sounds completely possessed by it, singing as if from a heart breaking under the disaster which Cassandra chooses to embrace sooner than dishonour, drawing in the wake of her passionate singing Peter Mattei's warm-hearted but hapless Chorebus.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=14365 (922 words)

	BERLIOZ (1803-1869)Les Troyens Davis LSOLive [MB]: Classical Reviews- August 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Her lament is moving, her characterisation reflective and tense.
		Petra Lang is a noble Cassandre - perhaps too Germanic in her phrasing - but what clarity of enunciation!
		Both the LSO Chorus and the LSO are on world beating form.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Aug01/BerliozTroyens.htm (838 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mahler - Symphony No 2, 'Resurrection': Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Performed by Prague Philharmonic Choir / Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra with Melanie Diener, Petra Lang
		There isn't quite the anguished anger one might expect in the Totenfeier opening-movement funeral march, needed to create more tension for later resolution; and not exactly the bitter-sweetness of an authentic Viennese laendler lilt in the second.
		But the dark burlesque of the scherzo draws more character from Chailly, while in the rapt "Urlicht", Petra Lang makes time stand still with breathtakingly intimate singing (more daring than in her 1998 performance on Andrew Litton's Mahler 2).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Y269 (741 words)

	Time Out New York [classical] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Christian Thielemann conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus, with Deborah Voigt, Petra Lang, Thomas Moser, Robert Holl (Deutsche Grammophon)
		His tone sometimes stretched thin, Thomas Moser won't please those for whom it's Melchior or bust as Tristan, but he is a thoughtful musician, wonderfully attuned to his character's twilight quality.
		Robert Holl is a wooly Marke (a far cry from the fl-velvet perfection of René Pape under Levine), Petra Lang a squally Brangäne and Peter Weber a most sympathetic Kurwenal.—Marion Lignana Rosenberg
	www.timeoutny.com /classical/456/456.class.tristan.rev.html (265 words)

	Amazon.com: Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Performed by Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam with Petra Lang
		Performed by Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam with Barbara Bonney, Thomas Hampson, Petra Lang, Charlotte Margiono, Anton Scharinger
		Performed by Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam with Barbara Bonney, Thomas Hampson, Petra Lang, Kevin Langan, Philip Langridge, Charlotte Margiono, Isabel Rey, Anton Scharinger
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000S9D?v=glance (1047 words)

	Peace Bibliography I-Q (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kelly, Petra K., Nonviolence Speaks to Power, Glen D.
		LaBoetie, Etienne, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, trans.
		Olgiati, Rodolfo, Werkplatze Einer Zukunft, Herbert Lang, Bern, Switzerland, 1975.
	www.centeronconscience.org /biblio_I-Q.htm (12137 words)

	Audio Ideas Guide Columns: Supersounds (Fall 2003) Andrew Marshall Listens to SACD, DVD-A and CD
		Certainly, this recent version, recorded in the wonderful Meyerson Hall in Dallas, makes it on grounds of sonic grandeur, and the performance is well shaped by Litton without the tempo and dynamic distortions some conductors seem to visit upon the work.
		It's a fairly brisk reading, which I like, and the singers are excellent, though the Urlicht, beautifully sung by the unknown Petra Lang, seems a little overly languid in pace.
		Getting back to the sonic grandeur, engineer John Eargle has captured the sound of singers and orchestra with remarkable faithfulness and naturalness.
	www.audio-ideas.com /columns/supersounds-fall2003.html (1593 words)

	Classical Net Review - Mahler - Symphony #2, "Resurrection"
		Fortunately, Litton's intensity is the glue that holds the music together, and the big spiritual climax is genuinely moving; it could make a believer out of the most hardened atheist.
		Murphy and Lang are the appealing and very human soloists; the latter's youthful vocal presence is a plus in "Urlicht," which never benefits from a matronly mezzo!
		The chorus, apparently quite large, is passionate but disciplined.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/d/del03237a.html (511 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Lunchtime Concert - Mezzo-soprano Petra Lang
		BBC - Radio 3 - Lunchtime Concert - Mezzo-soprano Petra Lang
		Verity Sharp introduces one of the world?s leading Wagnerian mezzo-sopranos, Petra Lang, performing Wagner?s Wesendonk-Lieder.
		The programme also includes a selection of well-known songs by Mahler and Sibelius.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/lunchtimeconcerts/pip/wfoab (101 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		Sir Colin Davis; Michelle De Young, Ben Heppner, Petra Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo and Kenneth Tarver; James Mallinson, producer (Various Artists; London Sym.
		Sir Colin Davis; Michelle De Young, Ben Heppner, Petra
		Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo and
	www.sequenza21.com /grammy.html (1087 words)

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