Sarah Brightman - In Concert

Starring: Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman Director: David Mallet Original UK Premiere: 1997 Dvd Release: 20th September, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Sarah Brightman is an English soprano & actress. Brightman is the oldest of six children. Her ambition to be an artist was clear from a very early age. She often took ballet lessons & was an excellent student. In 1978 she joined the dance group Pans People. She later went on to lead Hot Gossip, a mixed dance act who appeared regularly on The Kenny Everett Video Show. The group, who were somewhat more raunchy than Pans People, had a chart-topping disco hit in this year with I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper, wherin she first discovered her vocal talents. In 1981, Brightman tried out for a role in the then-new musical Cats. It was there that she met her future husband, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. She won the part & the composers heart. Lloyd Webber divorced his first wife to marry Brightman in 1984. She went on to star in a number of his musicals, including Evita, Aspects of Love & The Phantom of the Opera which was written specifically for her. Fame as an actress came at a price, however.

Sorry, folks, but Andrea Bocelli rocks my world. And so does Sarah Brightmans first concert...because of him! And the live version of Who Wants To Live Forever in particular is a knockout. I am all the more interested in getting this DVD version.

Andrea Bocelli is a singer, writer & music producer. An operatic tenor, he has released two complete operas & over eight albums. He has two sons Amos & Matteo. Bocelli was born with an inherited form of glaucoma, which only got worse as he aged. When he was twelve years old, he was hit with a soccer ball & went completely blind. Andrea wrote that blindness is in no way a tragedy to him. As a child Andrea was already playing the church organ & at the age of 12 won the Margherita dOro in Viareggio with O sole mio, his first competition win. After working for a year as a lawyer he takes singing lessons from Maestro Luciano Bettarini, taking up music fulltime. The Italian rock star Zucchero Fornaciari first auditioned Andrea while scouting for tenors in 1992 ; upon hearing the tape Pavarotti urged Zucchero to use Andrea instead of himself. In 1994 Andrea sings the winning entry Il mare calmo della sera in the San Remo Festival, which leads to his first Golden Disc. Posters Of Andrea Bocelli

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David Mallet was a Scottish dramatist. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh & went to London in 1723 to work as a private tutor. There he became friendly with Alexander Pope, James Thomson & other literary figures. William & Margaret, adapted from a traditional ballad. In 1740, he collaborated with Thomson on a masque, Alfred, which was the vehicle for Rule Britannia. His other plays & poetry, popular at the time, are largely forgotten, but he was a significant enough figure to be chosen by Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke as his literary executor. Bolingbrokes writings were edited & published by Mallet in 1754. Posters Of Janet Jackson

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