{"id":43180,"date":"2018-11-27T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=43180"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:07:09","slug":"sarah-brightman-sogni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/11\/sarah-brightman-sogni\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Brightman &#8211; &#8216;Sogni&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What can be said about Sarah Brightman that hasn&#8217;t been said before? The world&#8217;s most famous soprano, she&#8217;s also a very versatile singer who has been able to sing light opera, story-songs written for theatrical productions, throwback disco, contemporary pop, experimental music: she\u2019s excelled at all of it.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brightman, who starred in Cats and Phantom of the Opera and took \u201cTime to Say Goodbye\u201d, her sterling duet with Andrea Bocelli, to the top of the charts in 1996, put that flexibility on display on Dreamchaser, her acclaimed 2013 full-length. That daring album featured songs by Rimsky-Korsakov and Gorecki alongside material associated with adventurous pop-rock bands Elbow, Sigur Ros, and the Cocteau Twins. It all worked beautifully, of course, and the set drew rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Hymn&#8217; is Brightman&#8217;s latest venture, and once again, Brightman and her producers juxtapose classical pieces with modern sounds, and, as always, her recordings demonstrate that the difference between an aria, a theatrical showstopper, and a pop hit has as much to do with framing and context as it does with composition. Even within the realm of classical music, Brightman takes chances: \u201cSogni\u201d, her latest single, splices two separate Bizet pieces into a harmonious whole. She\u2019s joined on the track by the French light operatic tenor Vincent Niclo, whose performance matches hers in its intensity and immediate crossover appeal. Niclo makes his presence felt in the gorgeous video for \u201cSogni\u201d, too. He meets Brightman in a stunning tower plucked from the pages of a romance. The space is adorned with cupid sculptures, large windows with thick wooden frames, and soaring bookshelves stocked with ancient volumes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out Sarah Brightman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahbrightman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a> for further information about this superstar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_76230\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1fit4YSNkA?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Sarah Brightman - Sogni ft. 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The world&#8217;s most famous soprano, she&#8217;s also a very versatile singer who has been able to sing light opera, story-songs written for theatrical productions, throwback disco, contemporary pop, experimental music: she\u2019s excelled at all of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,640],"tags":[10862,144,77,370,1945,3942,14693,78,18120],"class_list":["post-43180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-hymn","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-video","tag-opera","tag-sarah-brightman","tag-singer","tag-sogni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-bes","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43858,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/12\/its-a-miracle-from-sarah-brightman-ft-yoshiki\/","url_meta":{"origin":43180,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s A &#8216;Miracle&#8217; From Sarah Brightman (ft Yoshiki)","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"18\/12\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Sarah Brightman has released 'Miracle', the follow-up to her brilliant track, 'Sogni'. 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