Soprano preparing for interstellar duet
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British singer Sarah Brightman said yesterday she is planning to perform a duet when she becomes the first soprano to board the International Space Station later this year after paying a US$52-million ticket.
The singer, who has been learning Russian and survival skills for her space trip, said that she was working with her ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber on the song to be performed with a singer on Earth.
“We’re working on the music at the moment,” she told a press conference in central London.
“It’s finding a song that suits the idea of space and something that is incredibly simple,” said the singer, who in 1978 scored a British top 10 hit with “I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper.”
She said her space flight — the first “space tourist” trip since 2009 — seemed “unrealistic and crazy”, but added that watching the first moon landing in 1969 had been “a pivotal moment” in her life.
The soprano, known for her starring roles in West End, is due to spend 10 days in space in September after paying a reported US$52 million to become the eighth space tourist in a flight arranged by American firm Space Adventures.
In January she began training at the legendary Gagarin cosmonaut training center in Star City outside Moscow.
In pictures of the survival course released by the training centre, Brightman is shown in a snowy forest of fir trees, lashing tree trunks together to make a shelter while wearing a waterproof jacket and trousers and a winter hat.
Brightman, 54, is in training with cosmonauts and astronauts from NASA, the Russian space agency and the Japanese space agency.
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