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Artist
Petra Berger
12+ albums
classical crossoveroperafemale vocalistspopdutch
about
In her native country, the vocal capacities of Petra Berger are often compared to those of Andrea Bocelli or Céline Dion. "She doesn’t sound Dutch at all!" people often say. They don’t mean to be impolite; coming from a Dutchman it is a great compliment! Dutch singers with a vocal range comprising more than three octaves usually sing opera and don’t bother with pop music. In addition to her technical qualities, Petra Berger is tremendously musical in an emotional sense. She has the gift to stir up an audience to great highs and lows, because she personally wants to experience the significance of each and every note and word that she sings. Petra is a perfectionist. And besides being a perfectionist, she is very ambitious when it comes to the content of a song. "A beautiful melody," she explains, "simply won’t do. Each song has to be about something." That quality, often lacking in pop musicians, has resulted in two ambitious musical projects that were composed and written with a certain theme in mind. Eternal Woman (2001) is about the lives of eleven great women, ranging from Maria Magdalena and Cleopatra to Marie-Antoinette and Catharina the Great. This project was followed in 2003 by another ‘concept’ album (Mistress), this time about the fate of famous and tragic lovers such as Catharina de Medici, Frida Kahlo and even Hillary Clinton. Both albums were a huge international success and Eternal Woman even became platinum. However, on tour Petra came to realize that these
