Sarah Brightman interview in Taiwan, December 2022

Sarah Brightman is the world’s best-selling soprano, having sold more than 30 million albums worldwide over the course of her 40-year career. Brightman has accomplished it all as a performer, but is there anything else on her bucket list? FTV reporter Stephany Yang sat down with Brightman for an exclusive interview to find out what inspires her and what other dreams she has for her career and personal life. This is Sarah Brightman, the world’s biggest-selling soprano. She rose to fame by playing Christine Daae in the musical “The Phantom of the Opera” and singing “Time to Say Goodbye”with Andrea Bocelli. Over the course of her 40-year career, Brightman has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and won awards in over 40 countries. Stephany Yang FTV reporter Sitting right next to me is Sarah Brightman. Over the course of her career, she has won music awards in over 40 countries. Welcome to Taiwan, Sarah. Sarah Brightman Award-winning singer Thank you. I am very excited to be back here actually. After five years, she’s back in Taiwan for four Christmas-themed concerts in Kaohsiung, Taichung, Taipei and Pingtung. Sarah Brightman Award-winning singer It is a show that is full of pieces of Christmas music that everybody knows all over the world. It has also got some of my hits, which obviously some of my pure fans want to hear. But we have given it a Christmas twist. A lot of beautiful costumes, a beautiful choir, an orchestra, and amazing lighting. It is just a very heartwarming and emotional show. I have been coming to Taiwan really since the mid-90s and I remember first coming here because the Taiwanese got to know my music. They were really enjoying an album I did all these years back called “Dive.” It was a new experience for me. It was an incredible experience because I loved the city and I loved the food. I was first taken out to an amazing dumpling house. That was my first experience there. Everyone was so friendly. There’s a lovely feeling of freedom here which I loved. Lots of people speak English so I felt very happy in this country,in this beautiful country. Brightman is the world’s biggest-selling soprano. She started her career when she was just 11 years old. She pioneered the classical crossover music movement and is famous for having a vocal range of over three octaves. She’s also the only artist to have topped both the classical music charts and the Billboard dance charts. She says that traveling has inspired her music and still inspires her today. Sarah Brightman Award-winning singer My taste in music has always been quite eclectic. I think that is probably why although I trained as a classical singer,I didn’t feel that the opera house would necessarily be the right place for me.I started to experiment with music.I think that through experimentation and working in all of the genres that I had trained in, they fused together. I created a fusion of classical pop.I think the world has inspired me. I have been a great traveler through my life even when I was very young. As soon as I was able to afford a train ticket or an airplane ticket, I was there to witness and try to understand the world at a deeper level. Sarah has another lifelong dream which is singing in space. After months of training for 16 hours a day at Star City near Moscow, she planned to sing from the International Space Station in 2015. However, she later canceled the trip due to personal reasons. She said that although she didn’t go, she learned many valuable lessons through training and that it allowed her to step out of her comfort zone. She hopes to inspire others to pursue their own dreams. Sarah Brightman Award-winning singer Use space more though for the protection of our planet. I think that the more that we can do out there just to protect here is the most important thing about space. The training is hard especially if you do it in the Russian way, which I did. I went to Russia to Star City and I trained there. It was tough because I was doing a lot of it in another language. You exceed anything that you could ever believe that you can do. That was what was so good about it. I learned a huge amount about actually what my strengths were and how strong I could be as a human being. I think that if everybody could have this kind of training, it would be a great one because they would stop feeling fearful of anything. Brightman says her future goals consist of composing more songs and continuing to delight her fans from all around the world.