Berkhamsted is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, in the Bulbourne valley, 26 miles north-west of London. The town is a civil parish with a town council within the borough of Dacorum which is based in the neighbouring large new town of Hemel Hempstead.
He was married to his first wife, Sarah Hugill, from 1971 to 1983. His second wife, English soprano Sarah Brightman, he met in 1981 when she joined the cast of Cats. In 1986, he wrote the role of Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera for her. They married in 1984, but were separated by 1990.
She began her career as a member of the television dance troupe, Hot Gossip and released several successful disco hit singles as a solo performer. In 1981 Sarah made her West End musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Brightman is the oldest of six children of businessman Grenville Geoffrey Brightman (1934 –1992) and Paula Brightman. She was raised Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. At age three, she began taking dance and piano classes and went on to perform in local festivals and competitions.
How old was Sarah Brightman when she started singing?
Today, she remains among the world's most prominent performers, with global sales of 30 million units having received more than 180 gold and platinum awards in over 40 countries. Born and raised in Berkhamsted, England, Sarah began singing and dancing at the age of three.
'The Phantom of The Opera' Sarah Brightman & Antonio Banderas
Is Sarah Brightman a classical singer?
Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer.
International singing superstar, Sarah Brightman is the world's biggest selling Soprano. She pioneered the classical crossover music movement and is famed for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves. Sarah is the only artist to have simultaneously topped the Billboard dance and classical music charts.
Alex Brightman (no relation, repeat: no relation) was born in 1987 to an American mother also named Brightman in Saratoga, Calif., who worked at a dialysis clinic. Still, Brightman and “The Boss” have enjoyed toying with the press' fascination with the name.
Two years later, when Lloyd Webber fully realized Brightman's prowess as a singer, he also fell in love with her and proposed during a romantic vacation — despite the fact that both were married to other people. But after their divorces were finalized in March 1984, the couple secretly married.
In the end, Lloyd Webber wielded his clout and she opened the musical in 1988 at the Majestic Theatre. Her performance was just as "mesmerizing" here as it was there, but Brightman was coolly received and denied a Tony Award nomination as Best Actress in a Musical.
How many children did Andrew Lloyd Webber have with Sarah Brightman?
He then wed soprano Sarah Brightman, who later starred as the lead in his 'Phantom of the Opera,' in 1984 and divorced her six years later. They did not have any children together, however, with his next wife, Madeleine Gurdon, Andrew added three more children to the brood: Alastair, William and Isabella.
Sarah Brightman has sung in many languages, including English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Turkish, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Catalan.
Who starred with Sarah Brightman in Phantom of the Opera?
The musical opened in London's West End in 1986 and on Broadway in New York in 1988, in a production directed by Harold Prince and starring English classical soprano Sarah Brightman (Lloyd Webber's then-wife) as Christine Daaé, screen and stage star Michael Crawford as the Phantom, and international stage performer ...
Brightman starred as Christine Daaé in Lloyd Webber's adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera on October 1986. Once again, the role of Christine was written specifically for her.
