Sarah Brightman will perform the new song during a 10 day stay on the ISS.

British Soprano, Sarah Brightman, who shot to fame starring opposite Michael Crawford in the original 1986 production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbusting musical theatre hit The Phantom of the Opera, has revealed that she will perform a newly composed song by Lloyd Webber in space later this year.

The 54-year-old British soprano and former wife of Lloyd Webber, announced in October 2012 that she would be travelling to the International Space Station, and began her training for her out of this world trip at the cosmonaut training facility at Star City near Moscow in January. She will blast off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on September 1 and spend ten days in orbit aboard the space station.

Speaking at a press conference in London yesterday, Brightman said she had been working closely with Lloyd Webber, whom she divorced in 1990, to create a song that “suits the idea of space.” She also warned of the challenges of singing in microgravity, saying that singing in space “is a very different thing to singing down here. We use the Earth to ground ourselves when we...