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{Q & A: Sarah Brightman}
Sarah Brightman When: Sept. 14Where: Canadian Tire Centre Tickets: $34-$164. Capitaltickets.caThe 52-year-old British soprano Sarah Brightman starred in the original Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, which she made with her then-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber.One of the pre-eminent classical crossover artists - she's sold more than 30 million records - Brightman has recorded 11 solo albums, and Dreamchaser, her latest, was released last week.Postmedia News spoke with Brightman in Toronto about her ex, taking chances and why she trained last year in Moscow to become the first diva to blast off into space.Endeavouring to leave the Earth's atmosphere can't be something you just decide to do overnight.Quite not. I lived through the '60s and those of us who lived through that time know that back then,[url=http://www.ugg-boots-sale.org]cheap ugg[/url], we all expected that, within a few years, we would all go up, but of course that receded over time. Now, suddenly, there's been a new interest and private companies are taking people up.Few people actually go up, though, but I guess few people also opened in Cats.You have to be brave and I enjoy being brave. It doesn't always bring me out in a particularly good place - anything can happen - but the fact that I've already gotten this far is enough. It inspired me. In a way, it's already done its thing.Where did it begin? Suborbital flights through Virgin Galactic, with Richard Branson.Are you friends with Richard? Oh, yes, from the music days a long way back. That didn't work, but I started to get more deeply connected, but I'm not a dabbler - I do it properly or I don't. This was four or five years ago. A few years later I went in for my medicals to see how I am.And? I went to Houston and worked with the NASA astronauts, passed all my exams and then went to Star City, in Russia, and was told that I tested perfectly. I could've been a cosmonaut.What sort of tests did you undergo? They look through your brain, make sure there's no nodules and I was pretty near perfect, which is a huge relief.I've had quite a tough life, touring and everything, and then I did training in a chair for motion sickness, which is fairly horrendous and makes you feel continuously sick.You changed musical theatre.Before I knew my ex-husband, I wasn't particularly interested in musical theatre because it had a form and I didn't like that.But I saw Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, and they were interesting pieces,[url=http://www.ugg-boots-sale.org]ugg outlet[/url], out of the box, like movies onstage. When the audition for Cats came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.What attracted you? I like things that work.Your ex-husband has called you The Angel of Music.I was a muse for Andrew. It was an interesting time.What's fascinating about your relationship is that you worked together again after you were divorced.We can be at war, but when the beauty of art is revealed, it overrides the personal stuff. If it's good, everyone wants to work on it. That's it.So you're divorced, he sends you a script. And we just got on with it, fine.Although you didn't write the music, Dreamchaser seems to be a very personal album.I like working on pieces that have something to do with my life; moments of hope and reflection and I think the idea here is that even in the worst circumstances, human beings can be a reflection of beauty. It's about the delicacy of what we have.Dreamchaser by Sarah Brightman is out now on Warner Music. Her Canadian tour dates begin Sept. 15 in Toronto.
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