Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman (2007)

Sarah Brightman (born August 14, 1960 in Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , England ) is a British soprano and actress .

life and career

She began taking ballet lessons at the age of three. She made her debut in I and Albert at the Piccadilly Theater in London as the daughter of Queen Victoria. Sarah Brightman was married to Andrew Graham Stewart when she was 18 years old. She was then the second wife of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber ; the couple married on March 22, 1984. In the premiere of Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera in 1986, Sarah Brightman sang the role of Christine Daae, which was written for her by Webber. The marriage remained childless and was divorced in 1990.

Sarah Brightman sang the duet Time to Say Goodbye with Andrea Bocelli in 1996 , which then became a hit. On August 25, 2007, Brightman performed at the opening ceremony of the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka , Japan with her new song Running . She plays a leading role in the 2008 rock opera film Repo! The Genetic Opera by Darren Lynn Bousman .

The album Symphony was released in spring 2008, on which I will be with you, a duet with KISS singer Paul Stanley , who also sang in the Phantom of the Opera in 1999 . The title song Symphony is a cover version of the song Symphonie by the German band Silbermond . At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , she was allowed to sing the Olympic anthem with the Chinese pop star Liu Huan . In January 2008 she gave a one-time concert for the album Symphony in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna , which was filmed. There was a 30-piece string orchestra, a choir consisted of 16 singers, and some duo partners were also present. At the beginning of November 2008 her first Christmas album A Winter Symphony was released and she started her Symphony Tour with the songs from this album . Shortly afterwards, pieces of music from the Christmas album A Winter Symphony and concert recordings of the Symphony Tour with pictures and videos were posted on YouTube , which led to a legal dispute that was brought before the European Court of Justice by the Federal Court of Justice to clarify the responsibility of platforms such as YouTube for copyright infringements.

Brightman's vocal and musical work shows a great variety of styles. Her music genres are mainly crossover and classical pop. In addition, she regularly goes on excursions on other musical topics. For example, she was also a singer with Gregorian , who interpret pop and rock music in the Gregorian style. On some Gregorian songs she sang under the pseudonyms Sarah Hellmann and Hepsibah. She also sang songs with the German electro sound acts Sash! and Schiller.

social commitment

Since February 2012, Brightman has been an “Artist for Peace” for UNESCO .

Planned space flight

On October 10, 2012, Brightman announced that she was planning to participate as a space tourist on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) through Space Adventures . The Russian space agency Roskosmos confirmed on May 6, 2013 that it was being negotiated with Space Adventures. The price was quoted as US $ 52 million. It was scheduled to complete its space flight in September 2015 as part of the Soyuz TMA-18M mission . On May 13, 2015, however, it became known that she had postponed the flight indefinitely for "family reasons".

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1995	Fly	DE20th gold (30 weeks)DE	AT16 (14 weeks) AT	CH30 (4 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: December 1995
1997	Timeless / Time to Say Goodbye	DE17th gold (34 weeks)DE	AT31 (7 weeks) AT	-	UK2 gold (25 weeks)UK	US71 platinum (27 weeks)US	First published: May 1997 with the London Symphony Orchestra
1998	Eden	DE34 (13 weeks) DE	AT9 (12 weeks) AT	CH32 (6 weeks) CH	UK77 (4 weeks) UK	US65 gold (24 weeks)US	First published: November 9, 1998
2000	La Luna	DE17 (8 weeks) DE	AT9 (8 weeks) AT	CH20 (9 weeks) CH	UK37 (3 weeks) UK	US17th gold (31 weeks)US	First published: April 25, 2000
2003	harem	DE12 gold (14 weeks)DE	AT22 (12 weeks) AT	CH53 (5 weeks) CH	-	US29 (16 weeks) US	First published: May 13, 2003
2008	Symphony	DE21 (9 weeks) DE	AT10 (9 weeks) AT	CH24 (8 weeks) CH	UK13 (4 weeks) UK	US13 (11 weeks) US	First published: January 28, 2008
2013	Dreamchaser	DE50 (1 week) DE	AT34 (1 week) AT	CH81 (2 weeks) CH	UK58 (1 week) UK	US17 (2 weeks) US	First published: January 16, 2013
2018	Hymn	DE61 (1 week) DE	-	CH36 (1 week) CH	-	US50 (1 week) US	First published: November 9, 2018

More albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1984	Song and Dance	-	-	-	UK46 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 1984 with Wayne Sleep
1985	Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem	-	-	-	UK4 (18 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 1985 with Plácido Domingo and Lorin Maazel
1989	The Songs That Got Away	-	-	-	UK48 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1989 with Andrew Lloyd Webber
1995	The Unexpected Songs: Surrender	-	-	-	UK45 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 1995 with Andrew Lloyd Webber
1996	Christmas In Vienna - Best Of	DE60 (3 weeks) DE	AT37 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First publication: November 1996 with Plácido Domingo, Josep Carreras , Luciano Pavarotti , Patricia Kaas , Charlotte Church , Vanessa Lynn Williams & Helmut Lotti
1997	The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection	-	-	-	-	US110 gold (17 weeks)US	First published: 1997 with Andrew Lloyd Webber
1998	Christmas In Vienna V.	DE33 (4 weeks) DE	AT26 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First publication: November 1998 with Riccardo Cocciante , Plácido Domingo & Helmut Lotti
2001	The Very Best of 1990-2000	DE64 (4 weeks) DE	AT48 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: May 2001 compilation
	Classics: The Best Of	DE98 (1 week) DE	-	CH66 (5 weeks) CH	UK38 silver (6 weeks)UK	US66 gold (18 weeks)US	First published: December 2001 compilation, re-released in 2006
2002	Encore	-	AT60 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	US124 (4 weeks) US	First published: May 2002 with Andrew Lloyd Webber
2004	The Harem World Tour: Live from Las Vegas	DE99 (1 week) DE	AT49 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	US126 (3 weeks) US	First release: September 2004 live album
2006	Diva: The Singles Collection	-	-	-	-	US100 (5 weeks) US	First published: October 2006 compilation
2008	A winter symphony	DE88 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	US38 (8 weeks) US	First release: November 2008 Christmas album
2009	Symphony: Live in Vienna	-	-	-	-	US191 (1 week) US	First release: March 2009 live album

more publishments

1981: Cats 1983: Nightingale 1986: The Phantom of the Opera 1987: Highlights from Phantom of the Opera 1987: Carousel 1988: The Trees They Grow so High / Early One Morning 1990: As I Came of Age 1992: Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber 1993: Dive 1997: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall 1998: Andrea Bocelli A Night in Tuscany 1998: Art on Ice (in Zurich) 1998: The Trees They Grow so High (Reissue) 1999: One Night in Eden 2000: Fly II 2000: American Dream Andrea Bocelli's Statue of Liberty Concert

2000: Vatican Christmas Concert 2001: La Luna: Live in Concert 2004: The Sarah Brightman Special: Harem a Desert Fantasy ... 2004: The Harem Tour (Limited Edition) 2005: Love Changes Everything: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, Volume 2 2006: Diva: The Video Collection 2007: Concert for Diana 2008: Repo - The Genetic Opera 2008: Symphony: Pre-Show Music 2008: In Concert 2009: Bella Voce 2009: Amalfi: Sarah Brightman Love Songs 2011: The Phantom of the Opera at the Albert Hall in Celebration of 25 Years 2013: Dreamchaser in Concert 2014: Voce - Sarah Brightman Beautiful Songs 2016: Gala - The Collection

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1978	I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper	DE26 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK6th gold (14 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 1978 with Hot Gossip
1979	The Adventures of the Love Crusader	-	-	-	UK53 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 1979 with Hot Gossip
1983	Him	-	-	-	UK55 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1983
1984	Unexpected song	-	-	-	UK76 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 1984
1985	Pie Jesu Requiem	-	-	-	UK3 silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: March 1985 with Paul Miles-Kingston
1986	The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera	-	-	-	UK7 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 1986 with Steve Harley
	All I Ask of You The Phantom of the Opera	-	-	-	UK3 silver (16 weeks)UK	-	First published: September 1986 with Cliff Richard
	The Music of the Night The Phantom of the Opera	-	-	-	UK7 (12 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 1986 with Michael Crawford
1989	Anything But Lonely	-	-	-	UK79 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 1989
1992	Amigos Para Siempre (Friends For Life)	-	-	-	UK11 (11 weeks) UK	-	First publication: July 1992 with Josep Carreras
1995	A Question of Honor Fly	DE15 (24 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: July 1995
1996	Time to Say Goodbye Time to Say Goodbye / Romanza / Bocelli / Fly	DE1 × 11 Eleven gold (48 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (33 weeks)AT	CH1 × 2 Double platinum (38 weeks)CH	UK2 platinum (19 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 1996 with Andrea Bocelli
1997	Just Show Me How to Love You Time to Say Goodbye	DE36 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK54 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1997 with London Symphony Orchestra & José Cura
	Who Wants to Live Forever Time to Say Goodbye	-	-	-	UK45 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 1997
1998	Starship Troopers Starship Troopers (OST)	-	-	-	UK58 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 1998 with United Citizen Federation
	Eden Eden	-	-	-	UK68 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 1998

More singles

1979: Love in a UFO 1981: My Boyfriend's Back 1981: Not Having That! 1983: Rhythm of the Rain 1987: Doretta's Dream , theme song from A Room with a View 1987: Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again 1989: Make Believe 1990: Something to Believe In 1993: Captain Nemo 1993: The Second Element 1995: Heaven is Here 1995: How Can Heaven Love Me 1997: Tú Quieres Volver 1997: There for Me , with José Cura

1999: Deliver Me 1999: So Many Things 1999: The Last Words You Said 2001: A Whiter Shade of Pale 2001: Moment of Peace , with Gregorian 2002: Join Me , with Gregorian 2003: Harem remixes 2003: What You Never Know 2004: Free 2007: Pasión , with Fernando Lima 2007: I Will Be with You (Where the Lost Ones Go) , with Chris Thompson, theme song of the 10th Pokémon movie 2007: Running 2012: Angel 2012: One Day Like This

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Finland 1998: for the album Timeless  Japan 2000: for the album La Luna 2003: for the album Harem 2008: for the album Symphony 2009: for the album A Winter Symphony  Canada 1999: for the album Dive 2003: for the album Harem 2008: for the album A Winter Symphony 2008: for the album Symphony  Netherlands 2001: for the album Timeless 2003: for the single Time to Say Goodbye  United States 2000: for the video album One Night in Eden 2002: for the video album La Luna: Live in Concert 2006: for the video album Diva: The Video Collection

Platinum record  Canada 1999: for the album Eden 2000: for the album La Luna 2002: for the album Classics 2004: for the video album The Harem World Tour: Live from Las Vegas  Netherlands 2001: for the album The Very Best of 1990-2000  New Zealand 2007: for the album Diva: The Singles Collection  Norway 1997: for the album Timeless 1999: for the album Eden 2 × platinum record  Japan 2007: for the album Diva: The Singles Collection 3 × platinum record  Canada 2001: for the album Time to Say Goodbye  New Zealand 1999: for the album Time to Say Goodbye

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	-	4 × gold4th	5 × platinum5	3,350,000	musikindustrie.de
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	30,393	ifpi.fi
Japan (RIAJ)	-	4 × gold4th	2 × platinum2	800,000	riaj.or.jp
Canada (MC)	-	4 × gold4th	7 × platinum7th	810,000	musiccanada.com
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	160,000	nvpi.nl
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	4 × platinum4th	40,000	nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	80,000	ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Austria (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	100,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	7 × gold7th	platinum1	3,150,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	2 × gold2	platinum1	1,760,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × silver3	24 × gold24	26 × platinum26th

Filmography (selection)

• 2000: Rosamunde Pilcher - Time of Knowledge
• 2008: Repo! The Genetic Opera
• 2009: Amarufi: Megami no hôshû
• 2012: First Night

swell

1. ↑ Federal Court of Justice: decision of September 13, 2018. In: BGH. BGH, September 13, 2018, accessed on March 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Global recording artist, Sarah Brightman designated UNESCO Artist for Peace. UNESCO, February 6, 2012, accessed October 11, 2012 . 
3. ^ Sarah Brightman books flight to space station. The Guardian, October 10, 2012, accessed May 12, 2016 . 
4. ^ Russia Confirms Plans to Send Sarah Brightman to Space. RIA Novosti, May 6, 2013, accessed May 7, 2013 . 
5. ↑ British singer to fly Russian spacecraft to ISS for $ 52 mln. ITAR-TASS, June 11, 2014, accessed June 11, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Sarah Brightman postpones flight into space. Sueddeutsche.de, May 14, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2016 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Sarah Brightman  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Works by and about Sarah Brightman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sarah Brightman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The official Sarah Brightman website