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The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber 25 October - 2 November 1985
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In Concert The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Palace Theatre London
25 October - 2 November 1985
SARAH
BRIGHTMAN
Soprano
Sarah Brightman was born in 1960. Her theatrical debut was at the age of thirteen in I and Albert at the Piccadilly Theatre. Subsequently she joined Pan’s People and Hot Gossip, steering them to the top of the charts with her record “I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper’ In 1981 she played in Cats as a member of the original cast. However, Miss Brightman had been consistently training as a soprano and in 1982 she premiered Charles Strouse’s opera for children Nightingale at the Buxton Festival to surprised and excellent reviews. She repeated the role in London at the Lyric Hammersmith. In 1984 she performed Song and Dance for BBC-TV. In 1985 she premiered Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem in New York and London, appeared at the Arena in Verona for Opera Aid and performed “Juliet’s Waltz Song” by Gounod at the Royal Gala for the Commonwealth Games. She is currently playing the role of Valencienne in The Merry Widow for the New Sadler’s Wells Opera. She will perform a tribute to Jessie Matthews at the 1985 Royal Variety Performance. In early 1986 she will premiere Kenneth MacMillan’s choreographed version of Requiem for the American Ballet Theatre in a production that will appear at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. She is currently preparing a recording of folksongs by Benjamin Britten for the HMV Angel label and will star as Kristin in The Phantom of the Opera in London in 1986.
Starring:- Sarah Brightman
Julian Lloyd Webber
Aled Jones
Paul Miles-Kingston
Iain Paton
Justin Lavender
Jane Gregory
