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Petra
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Petra will be performing at Night of Joy on September 7 at the Walt Disney World Resort. In addition, Bob Hartman will be performing with the band. Night of Joy, a two night concert event (September 6&7) with 14 artists, is in its 20th year. Petra was at the very first event in 1983 so this will be an exciting performance. For information and tickets please call 877-NITEJOY (877-648-3569) or wdw.youth.groups@disney.com.
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Engineering & Protection - On the edge of the Arabian Desert, Petra was the glittering capital of the Nabataean empire of King Aretas IV (9 B.C. to 40 A.D.). Masters of water technology, the Nabataeans provided their city with great tunnel constructions and water chambers. A theater, modelled on Greek-Roman prototypes, had space for an audience of 4,000. Today, the Palace Tombs of Petra, with the 42-meter-high Hellenistic temple facade on the El-Deir Monastery, are impressive examples of Middle Eastern culture.
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Now that Petra has officially disbanded (except for a single possible "makeup concert" in Brazil because of a flub that caused that performance to be cancelled), you would think that there won't be any new Petra stuff this year. Not so! First of all, the DVD version of Petra Farewell will be released on March 7. Preorder the DVD online or find a copy on that date and snap it up!
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As one of the most spectacular sites in the Middle East, Petra has long attracted travelers and explorers. During the 19th century, the site was visited and documented by several Europeans, after J. L. Burckhardt’s initial visit. A synthesis of the site was published by Libbey and Hoskins in 1905, presenting one of the first overviews in print. Archaeological excavations began in earnest at the turn of the century, with the earliest scientific expedition being published in Arabia Petraea in 1907, by A. Musil. In the 1920's R. E. Brünnow and A. von Domaszewski surveyed the site and published an ambitious mapping project in their Die Provincia Arabia. This survey has since undergone many necessary revisions, the most recent of which was published by Judith McKenzie in 1990.
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In September 2000 Petra Lang made a acclaimed first appearance as Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle in London. Other debuts were Cassandra in Les Troyens under Sir Colin Davis at the Barbican Center, London and at the Edinburgh Festival, Brangäne under Bernard Haitink in London, again Brangäne, this time under Simon Rattle in Amsterdam, Judith in Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle under Ivan Fischer in Modena and Ferrara as well as under Wolfgang Sawallisch in New York and Philadelphia. Petra ... sang Waltraute (Götterdämmerung) under Christian Thielemann in Berlin and Venus in Tannhäuser under Myung Whun Chung in Rome (October 2001).
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Petra (from the Latin word 'petrae', meaning 'rock') lies in a great rift valley east of Wadi 'Araba in Jordan about 80 kilometers south of the Dead Sea. It came into prominence in the late first century BCE (BC) through the success of the spice trade. The city was the principal city of ancient Nabataea and was famous above all for two things: its trade and its hydraulic engineering systems. It was locally autonomous until the reign of Trajan, but it flourished under Roman rule. The town grew up around its Colonnaded Street in the first century CE (AD) and by the mid-first century had witnessed rapid urbanization. Following the flow of the Wadi Musa, the city-center was laid out on either sides of the Colonnaded Street on an elongated plan between the theater in the east and the Qasr al-Bint in the west.
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