After completing her studies of the violin, Petra Lang studied voice under Gertie Charlent and Ingrid Bjoner. Starting out with lyrical mezzo roles, she has come to be much in demand in Wagnerian roles such as Brangäne, Kundry, Venus, Sieglinde, Ortrud, Adriano, as well as Bartók's Judith, Berg's Marie, Berlioz’s Cassandre, Strauss’s Ariadne; she is also sought after as a performer of Gustav Mahler's vocal works. Petra Lang sings with major European and American orchestras and at the renowned opera houses on both sides of the Atlantic, working with conductors like C. Abbado, G. Albrecht, P. Boulez, S. Bychkov, R. Chailly, M.W. Chung, A. Davis, C. Davis, C. von Dohnany, C. Dutoit, C. Eschenbach, I. Fischer, B. Haitink, D. Harding, E. Inbal, M. Janowski, A. Jordan, P. Jordan, F. Luisi, Z. Metha, R. Muti, J.P. Saraste, W. Sawallisch, L. Segerstam, S. Rattle, D. Runnicles, P. Schneider, J. Tate, C. Thielemann, S. Varviso and S. Young. Petra Lang has sung at the festivals of Salzburg, Bregenz, Edinburgh and appeared at Bayreuth in 2005/06 as Brangäne. She featured in a recording of Wagner's Lohengrin with the WDR Symphony Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov, released in 2009. The recording of Berlioz's Les Troyens under Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra with Petra Lang as Cassandre won Grammy Awards for the best recording and the best interpretation of 2002 - in addition to winning the opera award of the Deutsche Schallplatten-Kritik, the Classical Brit Awards Critics' Choice and the Orphée d'or de l'Academie du disque lyrique. The mezzo-soprano has given song recitals in Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Brussels, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Dresden (Semperoper), Edinburgh, Feldkirch (Schubertiade), Geneva (Victoria Hall, Grand Theatre), Ghent, London (Wigmore Hall), Milan (Scala), Mainz, Munich, New York (Carnegie Hall/Weill Recital Hall), Paris and Wiesbaden with the pianists Adrian Baianu, Malcolm Martineau, Carmen Piazzini, Maurizio Pollini, Wolfram Rieger, Charles Spencer and Einar Steen-Noekleberg. Her recital CD "Songs by Great Conductors" was released by Oehms Classics in 2008. Future projects include Kundry in Vienna, Venus in Munich, Ortrud in Berlin, San Francisco and Vienna, Cassandre in Berlin, Eglantine and Erwartung in Toulouse, Ariadne at a gala in Mannheim, Judith in concerts in Berlin and Paris, Mahler's 3rd Symphony in Oslo, New York and London, Wagner concerts at the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Wesendonck Lieder and Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck Lieder with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and a BBC recital in London.