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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Amazing Wildlife to find out.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Giant pandas and their habitat are unique and beautiful and
extraordinary representation of the natural world. And if you get
that opportunity to sit and watch a panda eat bamboo,
you will be.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Sarah Brightman, are you with us? Good morning, I I'm
with you. Nice to meet you, Yes, so nice to
meet you too.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
You're a you are a true, true legend, and I
want to make sure everybody knows. We're going to talk
about a bunch of stuff. And I only have you
for about nine minutes, but you're coming to Denver, and
I want to make sure everybody knows that you're coming
to Denver because you don't get here all that often,
and we're we're really excited.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That you're coming here. Tell us about this.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Tour, well, this store, it's actually it's very personal to me.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
It actually started.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
At the beginning of COVID and I wanted to sort
of all my musician friends they weren't earning any money.
Everyone was miserable. We were all going all over the
world through what we were going through. So I thought, right,
I'm going to put on a Christmas show.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
And I found a beautiful old church and we had
to go through all these regulations that we got there.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
And I put together the start of what my Christmas
Show is and it went online and everybody donated to
charities and it became very, very successful, and TV companies
around the world sort of wanted it because we filmed
it obviously, and then everyone said, look, why don't we
do it as a live tour going out around.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
The world and do it every year. So that's what
I've done. And actually it's.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
A very personal journey for me because I love this
time of year and I loved putting the music together
and felt very responsible actually for people's there, you know,
feelings around this time of year, finding music that would
make everybody, you know, feel that they had a really,
really good holiday experience watching this.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And just so listeners know, Sarah's tour is called a
Christmas Symphony, and it's going to be at the Mule
Theater down at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts,
on December fourth, and you can buy your tickets buy.
The easiest place to start is to go to Sarah
Brightman dot com. Sarah does have an h on the
end Sarah Brightman dot com.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So gosh, I have a lot.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Of things I want to ask you, and I'm going
to ask you a dumb question to start, and that is,
do you have to do anything different? Or is your
experience in any way different singing in Denver because of
the altitude.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
It does, actually, and I always take that into account.
My breath has to be deeper.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
But I'm used to it, you know, like when I've
got to Salt Lake City, any anywhere that is an altitude.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
But my god, you live in a beautiful place.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I mean you're surrounded by those incredible mountains and all
this beautiful.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Beautiful countryside. ROGI it is truly like God's country. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, you're welcome to move here.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I mean, everybody else is what what?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
What? You've kind of got everything there you call the tech,
You've got the space business. You've got all sorts of
stuff happening, and and you know, the food's great, and
you've got all countryside and hiking and everything. Oh, yeah,
maybe it's something I should think.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
We're going to hire you for the for the Denver
Chamber of Commerce. My my friend and colleague, Mandy Connell's
gone on the.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Next show, texted me to say.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I am so bleeping jealous right now that I'm that
I'm talking to you, And and so I asked Mandy
if she has any questions for you, and she has
a couple.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Do you have a favorite role to perform?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Do you know what I thought? I did?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
And then I just recently did the role of normal
Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and Australia for eight months. It
was a totally new production, and you know, I kind
of redefined the role in my kind of own way,
and that is now my favorite role to play. She's
as mad as a box of frogs, but very sort
(04:30):
of like.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
It was a very deep role to play, and I
loved it.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I loved the acting, and the music's beautiful and it
just was very fulfilling.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
So that is it.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
What did you think was your favorite role before you've
determined that that's your new favorite.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I did a beautiful role in a musical many many
years ago called Aspects of Aspects of Love and I
played the part of Rose Rebair and it was a
very romantic story but also kind of it showed the
coldness of human beings and how they can be with.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Each other within families and whatever.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
So it was it was quite intricate. But my most
favorite rock to play was a movie I did called
Repo the Genetic Opera and anyone that likes this sort
of like cult kind of movies, this was it.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
And I played a part.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Called Blind mag and I was blind in it and
it was just the most amazing role to play.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Wow, we're talking with Sarah Brightman, best selling soprano in history.
Starred in some of the biggest shows and Broadway in
the West End, all the biggest shows you've heard of,
Katz and Phantom of the Opera and on and on.
She's also a UNESCO artist for Peace Ambassador. She has
a star on the Hollywood Walk of a Walk of Fame.
Was your was your Australia show? Did it move around
(05:49):
or were you just in the Sydney Opera.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
House or what? Because I used to live in Sydney
and I love the Opera House.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Oh yeah, well, actually I was really lucky. We started
in Melbourne and it was freezing cold. So I went
from a winter in England to a winter there and
then back to.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Winter in England again.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
But luckily the last two months were in Sydney at
the at the Opera House, and I lived in this
beautiful village called do you remember cure Billy of course,
right across the water from the Opera House, and I
was able to go to work on.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
The on the ferry day.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I think if I remember right, the Prime Minister as
a house over there, so maybe you were hanging out
with the Prime Minister exactly.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
No, I did meet him.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
He came to see the show, but I think there
all the Nicole Kidner's got a house there.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
It's that that kind of place. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So you've done in addition to all.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
The stuff you're incredibly famous for. And by the way,
earlier in the show, I played some of your famous
duet with Andrea Butcelli, that song just gives me chills
when I hear you, when I hear you sing, You're
you're kind of a crossover singer.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I guess is the.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Term that's used and and I would like to know,
and Mandy would like to know, is there any genre
of music that you wouldn't try to sing. Like if
somebody came to you with a big enough check and
said let's do a Sarah Brightman rap album, would would
you give it a try?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
The thing about we all have songs that we think
we want to record and do as artists because we
love them and we just love music.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
But there are often you have to look at something
and say, can I bring something to this piece?
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Is there something interesting? Do I suit it? Or is
it just my my own ego, my own love of
it that makes me want to do it.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
So I'm very careful about what I choose when I
when I do sort of other people's other people's music,
And so that's that's really how how I approach when
I when I take as a piece of that, I
have to be suited.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I have to have a real passion for singing them,
you know, live apart from record.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
One of my listeners says, you did something with Paul
Stanley from Kiss?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Yes? I did? Now what was it?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Alright? Alright? Not that memorable? What was it?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
That's pretty that's pretty funny, all right. So I'm gonna
I'm gonna ask you something that's not not directly about
music you are talking about on your your current tour
here the Christmas Symphony Tour. And again, folks, you can
get tickets to see Sarah Brightman in Denver on December
fourth and go to Sarah Brightman dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I've only got you about for ninety more seconds. But
you said it's.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Very personal to you, So tell us a story about
you and Christmas, maybe even a childhood story or something
about you and Christmas that makes this personal to you.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I think you know, it's really important time for me
time of year, Christmas. My family have a.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Huge family, five siblings, twenty five of us at the
Christmas table.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
All the true traditions, all the things that we all
love over the holiday season. And I think I've always
attached kind of music to Christmas in my mind because
that's what you're hear you one for orchestraty here, choirs singing.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
It's about the birth of Jesus, and during the holiday season,
it's about many many.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Other things as well.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
So that's music has always rooted me and made me
happy during this season.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
So that's why I wanted to wanted to do this show.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Fantastic, I know I've got to let you go. I'm
just going to share with you one listener text.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Please thank Sarah from the depths of my heart for
the gift of her exquisite and gorgeous talents. All of
my five children were born to her beautiful voice.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Oh that's amazing. Thank you very much. I feel very privileged.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
To have done that, Sarah Brightman.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to
talk with you.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I wish you lots of success on your tour.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And when you're gonna move to when you're gonna move
to Colorado, let me know and we'll we'll help you
find a good realtor. And I suppose that that means
now it's time to say goodbye.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
As somebody once said, thank you.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
It was great talking to you. Happy days to you.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Thank you, thank you so much. All right, that's the
incredible Sarah Brightman. She's playing at the Mule Theater on
December fourth, down in Denver. There are still tickets available
if you go to Sarah Brightman dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Ever wonder what makes panda so special? Join us on
Amazing Wildlife to find out.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Giant pandas and their habitat are unique and beautiful and
extraordinary representation of the natural world. And if you get
that opportunity to sit and watch a panda eat bamboo,
you will be mesmerized.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Listen to Amazing Wildlife, America's number one podcast network iHeart.
Open your free iHeart app and search Amazing Wildlife and
start listening.
Ever wonder what makes panda so special? Join us on
Amazing Wildlife to find out.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Giant pandas and their habitat are unique and beautiful and
extraordinary representation of the natural world. And if you get
that opportunity to sit and watch a panda eat bamboo,
you will be.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Mesmeraz Listen to Amazing Wildlife on America's number one podcast network, iHeart.
Open your free iHeart app and search Amazing Wildlife and
start listening.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Sarah Brightman, are you with us? Good morning, I I'm
with you. Nice to meet you, Yes, so nice to
meet you too.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
You're a you are a true, true legend, and I
want to make sure everybody knows. We're going to talk
about a bunch of stuff. And I only have you
for about nine minutes, but you're coming to Denver, and
I want to make sure everybody knows that you're coming
to Denver because you don't get here all that often,
and we're we're really excited.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That you're coming here. Tell us about this.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Tour, well, this store, it's actually it's very personal to me.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
It actually started.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
At the beginning of COVID and I wanted to sort
of all my musician friends they weren't earning any money.
Everyone was miserable. We were all going all over the
world through what we were going through. So I thought, right,
I'm going to put on a Christmas show.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
And I found a beautiful old church and we had
to go through all these regulations that we got there.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
And I put together the start of what my Christmas
Show is and it went online and everybody donated to
charities and it became very, very successful, and TV companies
around the world sort of wanted it because we filmed
it obviously, and then everyone said, look, why don't we
do it as a live tour going out around.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
The world and do it every year. So that's what
I've done. And actually it's.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
A very personal journey for me because I love this
time of year and I loved putting the music together
and felt very responsible actually for people's there, you know,
feelings around this time of year, finding music that would
make everybody, you know, feel that they had a really,
really good holiday experience watching this.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And just so listeners know, Sarah's tour is called a
Christmas Symphony, and it's going to be at the Mule
Theater down at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts,
on December fourth, and you can buy your tickets buy.
The easiest place to start is to go to Sarah
Brightman dot com. Sarah does have an h on the
end Sarah Brightman dot com.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So gosh, I have a lot.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Of things I want to ask you, and I'm going
to ask you a dumb question to start, and that is,
do you have to do anything different? Or is your
experience in any way different singing in Denver because of
the altitude.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
It does, actually, and I always take that into account.
My breath has to be deeper.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
But I'm used to it, you know, like when I've
got to Salt Lake City, any anywhere that is an altitude.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
But my god, you live in a beautiful place.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I mean you're surrounded by those incredible mountains and all
this beautiful.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Beautiful countryside. ROGI it is truly like God's country. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, you're welcome to move here.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I mean, everybody else is what what?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
What? You've kind of got everything there you call the tech,
You've got the space business. You've got all sorts of
stuff happening, and and you know, the food's great, and
you've got all countryside and hiking and everything. Oh, yeah,
maybe it's something I should think.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
We're going to hire you for the for the Denver
Chamber of Commerce. My my friend and colleague, Mandy Connell's
gone on the.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Next show, texted me to say.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I am so bleeping jealous right now that I'm that
I'm talking to you, And and so I asked Mandy
if she has any questions for you, and she has
a couple.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Do you have a favorite role to perform?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Do you know what I thought? I did?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
And then I just recently did the role of normal
Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and Australia for eight months. It
was a totally new production, and you know, I kind
of redefined the role in my kind of own way,
and that is now my favorite role to play. She's
as mad as a box of frogs, but very sort
(04:30):
of like.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
It was a very deep role to play, and I
loved it.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I loved the acting, and the music's beautiful and it
just was very fulfilling.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
So that is it.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
What did you think was your favorite role before you've
determined that that's your new favorite.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I did a beautiful role in a musical many many
years ago called Aspects of Aspects of Love and I
played the part of Rose Rebair and it was a
very romantic story but also kind of it showed the
coldness of human beings and how they can be with.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Each other within families and whatever.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
So it was it was quite intricate. But my most
favorite rock to play was a movie I did called
Repo the Genetic Opera and anyone that likes this sort
of like cult kind of movies, this was it.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
And I played a part.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Called Blind mag and I was blind in it and
it was just the most amazing role to play.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Wow, we're talking with Sarah Brightman, best selling soprano in history.
Starred in some of the biggest shows and Broadway in
the West End, all the biggest shows you've heard of,
Katz and Phantom of the Opera and on and on.
She's also a UNESCO artist for Peace Ambassador. She has
a star on the Hollywood Walk of a Walk of Fame.
Was your was your Australia show? Did it move around
(05:49):
or were you just in the Sydney Opera.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
House or what? Because I used to live in Sydney
and I love the Opera House.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Oh yeah, well, actually I was really lucky. We started
in Melbourne and it was freezing cold. So I went
from a winter in England to a winter there and
then back to.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Winter in England again.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
But luckily the last two months were in Sydney at
the at the Opera House, and I lived in this
beautiful village called do you remember cure Billy of course,
right across the water from the Opera House, and I
was able to go to work on.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
The on the ferry day.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I think if I remember right, the Prime Minister as
a house over there, so maybe you were hanging out
with the Prime Minister exactly.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
No, I did meet him.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
He came to see the show, but I think there
all the Nicole Kidner's got a house there.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
It's that that kind of place. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So you've done in addition to all.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
The stuff you're incredibly famous for. And by the way,
earlier in the show, I played some of your famous
duet with Andrea Butcelli, that song just gives me chills
when I hear you, when I hear you sing, You're
you're kind of a crossover singer.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I guess is the.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Term that's used and and I would like to know,
and Mandy would like to know, is there any genre
of music that you wouldn't try to sing. Like if
somebody came to you with a big enough check and
said let's do a Sarah Brightman rap album, would would
you give it a try?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
The thing about we all have songs that we think
we want to record and do as artists because we
love them and we just love music.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
But there are often you have to look at something
and say, can I bring something to this piece?
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Is there something interesting? Do I suit it? Or is
it just my my own ego, my own love of
it that makes me want to do it.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
So I'm very careful about what I choose when I
when I do sort of other people's other people's music,
And so that's that's really how how I approach when
I when I take as a piece of that, I
have to be suited.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I have to have a real passion for singing them,
you know, live apart from record.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
One of my listeners says, you did something with Paul
Stanley from Kiss?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Yes? I did? Now what was it?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Alright? Alright? Not that memorable? What was it?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
That's pretty that's pretty funny, all right. So I'm gonna
I'm gonna ask you something that's not not directly about
music you are talking about on your your current tour
here the Christmas Symphony Tour. And again, folks, you can
get tickets to see Sarah Brightman in Denver on December
fourth and go to Sarah Brightman dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I've only got you about for ninety more seconds. But
you said it's.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Very personal to you, So tell us a story about
you and Christmas, maybe even a childhood story or something
about you and Christmas that makes this personal to you.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I think you know, it's really important time for me
time of year, Christmas. My family have a.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Huge family, five siblings, twenty five of us at the
Christmas table.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
All the true traditions, all the things that we all
love over the holiday season. And I think I've always
attached kind of music to Christmas in my mind because
that's what you're hear you one for orchestraty here, choirs singing.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
It's about the birth of Jesus, and during the holiday season,
it's about many many.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Other things as well.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
So that's music has always rooted me and made me
happy during this season.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
So that's why I wanted to wanted to do this show.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Fantastic, I know I've got to let you go. I'm
just going to share with you one listener text.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Please thank Sarah from the depths of my heart for
the gift of her exquisite and gorgeous talents. All of
my five children were born to her beautiful voice.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Oh that's amazing. Thank you very much. I feel very privileged.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
To have done that, Sarah Brightman.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to
talk with you.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I wish you lots of success on your tour.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And when you're gonna move to when you're gonna move
to Colorado, let me know and we'll we'll help you
find a good realtor. And I suppose that that means
now it's time to say goodbye.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
As somebody once said, thank you.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
It was great talking to you. Happy days to you.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Thank you, thank you so much. All right, that's the
incredible Sarah Brightman. She's playing at the Mule Theater on
December fourth, down in Denver. There are still tickets available
if you go to Sarah Brightman dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Ever wonder what makes panda so special? Join us on
Amazing Wildlife to find out.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Giant pandas and their habitat are unique and beautiful and
extraordinary representation of the natural world. And if you get
that opportunity to sit and watch a panda eat bamboo,
you will be mesmerized.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Listen to Amazing Wildlife, America's number one podcast network iHeart.
Open your free iHeart app and search Amazing Wildlife and
start listening.
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