In 1973, at the age of 13, Brightman made her theatrical debut in the musical I and Albert at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, playing one of Queen Victoria's daughters (Victoria). At age three, she began taking dance and piano classes and went on to perform in local festivals and competitions. At age 11, she successfully auditioned for the Arts Education School in Tring Park, a school specialising in performing arts, but did not attend between 19. She was raised in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. Her younger sisters are Nicola, Claudia and Amelia (aka Violet). 4 2000-2004: Further international successīrightman is the oldest of six children of businessman Grenville Geoffrey Brightman (1934–1992) and Paula Brightman.Brightman is the world's richest female classical performer with a fortune of £36m (about US$56m). As of 2012, she is training for a space journey to the International Space Station, currently set for 2015. Grant. In addition, she formed her own production company, Instinct Films, where her first film is in pre-production. Together they launched the song "Shall Be Done" at the 2010 Winter Games held in Vancouver, Canada. Brightman is the face of Panasonic's strategic partnership agreement with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre as she stars in their joint campaign, "The World Heritage Special," that was aired on the National Geographic Channel worldwide.Īpart from music, Brightman has begun a film career, making her debut in Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008), a rock opera-musical film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, and in autumn 2011 and early 2012 Stephen Evans' "First Night", starring opposite Richard E. She is often credited as the creator of this genre and remains among the most prominent performers, with worldwide sales of more than 30 million records and 2 million DVDs, establishing herself as the world's best-selling soprano of all time.īrightman's 1996 duet with the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, " Time To Say Goodbye", topped charts all over Europe and became the highest and fastest selling single of all time in Germany, where it stayed at the top of the charts for fourteen consecutive weeks and sold over 3 million copies. It subsequently became an international success selling 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. She has now collected over 180 gold and platinum sales awards in 38 different countries. In 2010 she was named by Billboard the 5th most influential and best-selling classical artist of the 2000s decade in the U.S. and according to Nielsen SoundScan, she has sold 6.5 million albums in the country.īrightman is the first artist to have been invited twice to perform at the Olympic Games, first at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games where she sang " Amigos Para Siempre" with the Spanish tenor José Carreras with an estimated global audience of a billion people, and sixteen years later in Beijing, this time with Chinese singer Liu Huan, performing the song " You and Me" to an estimated 4 billion people worldwide. Since 2010, Brightman is Panasonic's global brand ambassador. The Original London Cast Album of the musical was released in CD format in 1987 and sold 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling cast album of all time.Īfter retiring from the stage and divorcing Lloyd Webber, Brightman resumed her music career with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson, this time as a classical crossover artist. She went on to star in several West End and Broadway musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, where she originated the role of Christine Daaé. In 1981, she made her West End musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she married. She has sung in many languages which are English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Occitan.īrightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. I am not a dreamer - I am a dreamchaser." - Sarah Brightman's Dreamchaser monologue It is clear as I will see the beauty of the universe, I will see deeper inside myself, closer to my dreams. The journey to the stars may be as close to a dream as reality may take me.
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Our dreams take us to places we'll never reach and open doors into other worlds and windows into ourselves. And an endless veil of stars, so distant it questions our belief. But we can see the moon and the sun, not 20 miles but 93 million miles away. We are prepared to believe what we cannot see. We'll never meet all the 7 billion people that walk the earth, but we know they are there. Sarah Brightman in 1997 "How far can I see? 10 miles? 20? We can't see the glaciers from the desert or the seabed from the mountain peak.