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The Diva of the Verizon Center: Sarah Brightman

Photo by Rich Lipski ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a woman named Sarah Brightman, who married a so-so composer and brilliant businessman named Andrew Lloyd Webber. And he wrote her the strangest musical ever — weirder, even, than the one set in the Austrian resort hotel during a nuclear disaster.

The musical was called "The Phantom of the Opera," and it was accompanied by insane, Cleopatra-themed music videos, and it made Sarah Brightman the kind of star who gives concerts of Broadway and opera songs at the Verizon Center. And that's how that story goes.

» Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW; Wed., Nov. 19, 6:30 p.m., $55-$225; 202-397-7328. (Gallery Place)

Photo by Rich Lipski

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