Sarah Brightman was born in 1960. Her theatrical debut was at the age of thirteen in I and Albert at the Piccadilly Theatre. Subsequently she joined Hot Gossip, steering them to the top of the charts with her record "I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper”. In 1981 she played in Cats as a member of the original cast. In 1982 she premiered Charles Strouse's opera for children Nightingale at the Buxton Festival. She repeated the role of Nightingale in London at the Lyric Hammersmith. Subsequently she appeared in The Pirates of Penzance at Drury Lane and performed Song and Dance for BBC-TV. In 1985 she premiered Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem in New York and London for which she was cited as 'Best New Classical Artist' in the Grammy Awards; played the role of Valencienne in The Merry Widow for the New Sadler's Wells Opera, and performed a tribute to Jessie Mathews in the 1985 Royal Variety Performance. In May 1986 she premiered Kenneth Macmillan's choreographed version of Requiem for the American Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. She has just completed a recording of folk songs by Benjamin Britten for the HMV Angel label.

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