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 and worked from 1989 -2006  with Ingrid Bjoner. Awards include first place in the s'Hertogenbosch, Robert-Stolz and Girardi International Singing Competitions.

Currently Ms Lang is much in demand for her Wagnerian roles of Kundry, Sieglinde, Brangäne, Venus, Ortrud; Adriano, Bartoks Judith, Berlioz Cassandre and for her interpretation of Gustav Mahlers’ works.

Ms Lang has appeared in all the major opera houses in Europe and the US,  as well as the festivals of Bayreuth, Salzburg and Bregenz. She has sung with the many of the major orchestras worldwide, and has worked with the  leading conductors including Abbado, Boulez, Bychkov, Chailly, Chung, Davis, Haitink, Harding, Inbal, Janowski, Jordan, Metha, Muti, Saraste, Sawallisch, Rattle, Runnicles, Tate, Thielemann.

Petra Lang enjoys a reputation as being a sensitive lieder interpreter; and has given recitals in Londons’ Wigmore Hall, Amsterdams’ Concertgebouw, Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet and Louvre, Austria's Schubertiade Feldkirch, Edinburgh Festival, New York's Carnegie Hall, Geneva, Brussels, Gent and throughout her native Germany. She has recorded songs composed by the conductor Clemens Krauss for Oehms Classics.