From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. In 1981, she made her musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she married. She went on to star in several Broadway musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, where she originated the role of Christine Daaé.The Original London Cast Album of the musical was released in CD format in 1987 and sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling cast album of all time. After retiring from the stage and divorcing Lloyd Webber, Brightman resumed her music career with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson, this time as a classical crossover artist. She is among the most prominent performers in the genre, with worldwide sales of more than 30 million records and 2 million DVDs. Her duet with the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, "Time To Say Goodbye", topped charts all over Europe and became the highest and fastest selling single of all times in Germany, where it stayed at the top of the charts for fourteen consecutive weeks breaking the all-time sales record, with over 3 million copies sold in the country.  and subsequently became an international success with 12 million copies worldwide.  She has now collected over 180 gold and platinum sales awards in 38 different countries. Brightman is the only artist to have been invited twice to perform at the Olympic Games, first at the 1992' Barcelona Olympic Games where she sang "Amigos Para Siempre" with the Spanish tenor Jose Carreras with an estimated global audience of a billion people, and sixteen years later in Beijing, this time with Chinese singer Liu Huan and performing the song "You and Me" to an estimated 4 billion people worldwide. Apart from music, Brightman has begun a film career, making her major debut in Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008), a rock opera-musical film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, And in summer 2009, she completed filming Stephen Evans' "Cosi" or "First Night"  in which she plays the role of a conductor, opposite Richard E. Grant.  In addition, she recently[when?] formed her own production company, Instinct Films, where her first film is in pre-production. Brightman ranks among Britain's music millionaires with a fortune of £30m (about US$49m). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sarah Brightman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Sarah Brightman es una cantante, actriz, bailarina y directora de orquesta británica que interpreta música del género denominado crossover clásico así como ópera y teatro musical. Se caracteriza por poseer un timbre agudo de soprano ligera. Ha interpretado un gran número de arias de ópera de compositores famosos, las cuales se incluyen en sus álbumes. Ha cantado en inglés, español, francés, catalán, latín, alemán, italiano, japonés, hindi, mandarín, ruso y occitano.

Ha recibido 180 discos de Oro y Platino en 38 países​ y es la única artista en el mundo que ha ocupado el puesto #1 en el Billboard Dance y el Billboard Classical Chart en simultáneo.

En 1981 debutó en el musical Cats y contrajo matrimonio con el compositor Andrew Lloyd Webber de quien se divorció en 1990. Protagonizó musicales en Broadway y en el West End, incluyendo El fantasma de la ópera, en el cual interpretó el papel de Christine Daaé. El álbum del musical ha vendido más de 40 millones de copias en todo el mundo, convirtiéndose en la banda sonora teatral más vendida de todos los tiempos.

Aparte de la música, Brightman empezó una carrera en las artes visuales, haciendo su debut en la película Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008), una película de rock ópera-musical dirigida por Darren Lynn Bousman, en donde interpretó a Blind Mag, y First Night en donde dio vida a Celia, de Stephen Evans que se estrenó en marzo de 2011 en el Festival Cinematográfico de Glasgow.​ Formó su propia compañía de producción fílmica Instinct Films con la que produjo su primera cinta.