Sarah Brightman - La Luna (Live in Concert)

Sarah Brightman - La Luna (Live in Concert)
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Movie Review: A Sweet Intoxication!
Summary: 5 Stars

She warns us not to let life pass you by like "Winter in July" and sings of "parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme" in the medieval classic "Scarborough Fair".

As she sings Queen's "Who Wants to Live Forever" she can bring tears to your eyes on wind swept fields of love and warmth and after capturing us with her spell binding voice, she graciously thanks us for joining her this night and introduces her next song. "Hijo De La Luna" or "Son of the Moon" is that song, a sad story that leads to the first "La Luna Interlude" from which Sarah returns as a ballerina in a music box.

"Figlio Perduto" is a powerfully sad song that Brightman emphatically carries to such an emotional level, that it reaches the heart and soul even if you don't understand it's Italian lyrics. I had tears in my eyes when she finished singing it!

In the concerts title song "La Luna", Sarah weaves her voice through the strings of violins with unimaginable grace, as if she were making a fine silk garment.

After singing of the Lady Caliph, we are introduced to a sad song that is dedicated to children who have lost their lives in political conflicts. "Pie Jesu" is a prayer in Latin for Jesus, who takes away the sins of the world, to grant us peace.

Following the second "La Luna Interlude" we find Sarah standing tall and haloed like an angel with stars. She now sings in angelic fashion "no man will sleep" in the song "Nessun Dorma".

A graceful transition is made from an angel and Sarah now appears as a Celtic Princess, arrayed in a crown of jewels, bracers, a breastplate of steel, and a royal purple skirt. As she floats around an orb, not unlike the planet Jupiter, she sings, "Deliver Me" to a pop score, a song that ends with her asking, "Won't you deliver me?" with such feeling that you want to stand and yell "YES! I will deliver you!"

Down from the rafters, she now holds her warriors spell bound with "He Doesn't See Me".

The stage grows dark; all is quiet except for the keyboard. A fog fills the room and sparkles fall from the sky, Sarah slowly spins like a little girl in a dream. Here is the song, which impelled me to purchase this DVD and worth it's proverbial weight in gold. Sarah's cover of Procul Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" gives this song new meaning and is the very best version of this song I have ever heard. The entire DVD is worth it, just for this song.

But that's not all! "There for Me" is guaranteed to make all those couple present feel warm and fuzzy toward their loved one as she is joined by the power of Josh Grobin as he enters singing:

When it's blowing cold and all the city streets are grey
Walking all along and watching how the children play
Voices on the wind and faces from the past all dancing by
They're asking why....

And then they sing together:

Are you still there for me? Every time I go away
Are you still there for me? Thinking of me everyday
Are you my destiny? Words I never dared to say
Are you still there for me?

I held my wife a little tighter as they sang!

"Twisted in Every Way" leads into the "Phantom of the Opera Suite" in which she sings "Little Lotti", "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again", and "Music of the Night" which brings the crowd to their feet and she teases us by leaving through parted stairs.

She floats above these stairs a moment later to sing "A Question of Honour", a powerful song that Sarah successfully sings in Italian with operatic style and then fluidly moves into English with pop style.

The curtain closes and again Sarah returns to take a bow, with the crowd on it's feet in applause, she sits on the edge of the stage and does her version of "Moon River".

When the song is done, she gets up and as she walks out she looks over her shoulder with a devious little smile. Of course she returns to tease us again with a "Time to Say Goodbye" which ultimately ends the concert in a standing ovation.

Sarah Brightman's concert "La Luna" is not for those who take music lightly or are afraid to feel passionately about something. Its power is manifest from the opening song to the final farewell.

Summary of Sarah Brightman - La Luna (Live in Concert)