The 'Phantom of the Opera' star teams up with her ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber to craft a new song for her live concert from the orbit.
- Mar 11, 2015
AceShowbiz - Sarah Brightman will hold a live concert from space when she flies to the International Space Station on September 1. If she pulls it off, the "Phantom of the Opera" star, 54, will become the first professional musician in history to perform live from the orbit.
"An engineer or someone from the sciences or biology would go up into space and do what they can - their experiments. But with me all I can do is sing," she said during a press conference Tuesday, March 10 in London. "I would like to connect with a choir, or children or an orchestra on Earth because I think that will be a very beautiful thing."
The song is still in the works. Brightman collaborates with her former husband Andrew Lloyd Webber who previously worked with her in "Phantom of the Opera". She said, "He has come up with the most beautiful line for something, so we are just taking it slowly at the moment."
"I'm trying to find a piece which is beautiful and simple in its message, as well as not too complicated to sing," she also explained. "It's finding a song which suits the idea of space and something that is incredibly simple because to sing in microgravity is a very, very different thing to singing down here."
She has undergone two years of a grueling training regime to prepare for the space trip. She is rumored paying $53 million for the rare experience, but she refused to reveal the cost due to contractual reasons.
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� Sarah Brightman (@SarahBrightman) February 18, 2015Brightman said the space training and the showbiz industry were not much different. "When you are performing you are traveling around for years and going to different venues and different countries," she explained. "You are continually jet-lagged, you are up against time, you have to make fast decisions, you have to think on your feet, you are often sweating in costumes. And at the end of the day when you are a solo performer and something goes wrong then everyone comes to you, even though everybody does an amazing job."
"So when I started getting into the program I actually realized that I understand all the feelings I am going through," she continued. "It wasn't a shock to me. I am able to take command. I am able to make decisions. I am able to get through fear."
Sarah Brightman will travel with two other people in a Soyuz space rocket that launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan desert. She is expected to spend 10 days in the outer space orbiting the Earth. She will be the eighth space tourist after Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte in 2009.
