http://www.observer.co.uk/life/story...679996,00.html
там, среди прочего, есть один пассаж, который, возможно, раскрывает отношение Уэббера к России:
'I can only say that hopefully as a melodic writer myself, I haven't heard such original and good melodies in years. For a long time I had a theory - which was obviously wrong - that once the lid was taken off Russia, the nation that produced Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov and Prokofiev would revitalise Western musical theatre.' He arrived at this theory not least because Jesus Christ Superstar was such an underground hit there. 'It was completely illegal, but the record to have. And then when the regime changed, all we got was a load of even worse entries for the Eurovision Song Contest.
О Саре Б
'When I was married to Sarah B,' Lloyd Webber explains (his first wife was also called Sarah), 'people really didn't get to meet me that much. Sarah spends six hours a day singing and probably another two or three hours working out. I needed another half who was able to do the dinner parties and things. I remember one evening we were asked to go to something with the US ambassador and she just didn't want to go. So in the 80s, people didn't really get to see me.'
Despite this, he talks about Sarah Brightman with affection and goes out of his way to tell me that 'she is the second biggest female star in America after, well... Britney, I suppose. She's found this market where she's a kind of, I don't know, sexy opera singer. I promise you, she's huge.' He still sees her regularly, although she lives in Germany, and had just been persuading her to come to the last night of Cats.