Petra Lang
Born: 29th November 1962, Frankfurt am Main
Nationality: German
Artist's website: https://www.petralang.com/Bio-English
Born in Frankfurt in 1962, Petra Lang trained in Darmstadt and at the opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera, beginning her career as a mezzo-soprano. During the early 1990s she sang mainly comprimario roles such as Flora and Annina in La traviata and Fenena in Nabucco, but from 1994 she began to move into the more dramatic territory which would establish as a major artist on the international stage and in the studio: Wagner’s Fricka, Waltraute and Brangäne (she would later add Ortrud, Kundry and even Isolde and Brünnhilde to her repertoire), Marie in Berg’s Wozzeck, and Cassandre in Berlioz’s Les troyens. She sang the latter role on Colin Davis’s Grammy-award-winning recording of the work with the London Symphony Orchestra in 2000, and her discography also includes Ortrud on Semyon Bychkov’s Lohengrin (BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Year in 2010), the Brünnhilde of Die Walküre on Jaap van Zweden’s ‘Hong Kong Ring Cycle’ on Naxos, and Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra on Channel Classics.
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Wagner from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
24th Jun 2013
Wonderfully balanced and beautifully characterised accounts of the Overture to Die Meistersinger, the Siegfried Idyll and three excerpts from Götterdämmerung, including an Immolation Scene of laser-sharp accuracy and thrilling power from Petra Lang.
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New. Nikolaus Harnoncourt & The Royal Concertgebouw: The Complete Teldec Recordings
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Petra Lang (mezzo-soprano), Peter Mattei (baritone), Aeneas, Alan Ewing, Tigran Martirossian, Ben Heppner (tenor), Bülent Bezdüz, Isabelle Cals, Guang Yang, Orlin Anastassov, Mark Stone (baritone), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Stephen Milling (bass), London Symphony Chorus (cho, Leigh Melrose (baritone), Toby Spence (tenor), Andrew Greenan, Roderick Earle, Les Troyens, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
4 CDs: $22.25Download from $28.00 -
Special offer. Sir Colin Davis Anthology | Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
8 SACDs + CD + DVD Video: Original price $34.00 Reduced $27.20Download from $38.00 -
Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Jukka Rasilainen (Telramund), Georg Zeppenfeld (König Heinrich), Samuel Youn (Der Heerrufer Des Königs), Bayreuth Festival, Andris Nelsons
3 CDs: $26.75Download from $30.00
