

The Phantom of the Opera musical continues to entice crowds with the music of the night at the Majestic Theatre. Get The Phantom of the Opera tickets now. But after a historic, record-setting run, this Broadway institution closes in February 2023. She also performed at the 2007 Concert for Diana and the Kennedys Center Honors.The Phantom of the Opera is Broadway's longest-running show, having run for nearly 35 years. 1 on Billboard’s classic and crossover charts.īrightman is the first artist to perform the theme song at the Olympics twice, first at the Barcelona Games in 1992 and then at the Beijing Games in 2008.

The original London cast album of “The Phantom of the Opera”, released in 1987, has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, the most for a cast album.īrightman has released more than 15 solo albums, many of which debuted at No. She began her career as a member of the television dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several hit disco singles as a solo performer.īrightman made his West End musical theater debut in 1981 in “Cats,” meeting composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who composed “The Phantom of the Opera” and was Brightman’s husband from 1984 to 1990. The ceremony will be streamed on the Walk of Fame website, Born Augin Berkhamsted, England, 26 miles northwest of London, and raised there, Brightman began singing and dancing at the age of 3. The star is the 2,736th since the Walk of Fame was completed in 1961 with the first 1,558 stars. The ceremony takes place six days before Brightman’s first of three concerts at the Venetian Theater in Las Vegas. Van Laast was the choreographer for the 2008 concert, “Sarah Brightman: Symphony in Vienna”. Kouatchou plays Daaé in the Broadway production of “The Phantom of the Opera”, the first black actress to play the role. ceremony outside the Pantages Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.

Tony-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth, Emilie Kouatchou and Anthony Van Laast are set to join Brightman in speaking at the 11:30 a.m. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will be unveiled Thursday in honor of artist Sarah Brightman, the world’s best-selling soprano, pioneer of the crossover classical music movement and originator of Christine Daaé’s role in productions West End and Broadway from “The Phantom of the Opera.”
