{"id":98465,"date":"2015-03-11T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=98465"},"modified":"2015-03-11T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T08:56:11","slug":"sarah-brightman-to-perform-lloyd-webber-song-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/sarah-brightman-to-perform-lloyd-webber-song-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Brightman to perform Lloyd Webber song in space"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sarah Brightman has been working with her former husband Andrew Lloyd Webber on a song she can perform in space.<\/p>\n
The British soprano, who is training at Star City near Moscow, is due to blast off on a Russian Soyuz craft on 1 September.<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old will spend 10 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), 260 miles (420 km) above Earth.<\/p>\n
Brightman said singing in space was a “very different” proposition to performing on Earth.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a press conference in central London, the Phantom of the Opera star said her team were trying to work out the technical details of performing on the ISS.<\/p>\n
“I would like to connect with a choir, or children or another singer or an orchestra on Earth,” she told reporters.<\/p>\n
Brightman said she had been working with Lord Lloyd-Webber to find a song that “suits the idea of space”.<\/p>\n
She recorded the song in New York last week and it will appear on a retrospective of her career, out later this year.<\/p>\n
“To sing in microgravity is a very different thing to singing down here,” she said. “We use the Earth to ground ourselves when we sing and the air around us.<\/p>\n