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Reuters, Detroit

Sarah Brightman says life is "completely crazy at the moment," and with a new holiday album, a tour and her debut film role, who's going to doubt her?

The British singer kicks off a seven-week tour of Mexico, the United States and Canada on November 4 in Monterrey, Mexico.

The repertoire will include "lots of new songs" from her January release "Symphony" and the holiday album "A Winter Symphony," which also comes out November 4 -- as well as "all the songs that I'm known for, so people will be getting all the old things that they love and all the new as well." More striking, however, is the technology Brightman will employ on the tour, which includes virtual and holographic stage elements depicting gardens, balloons, aquariums and other ethereal scenery.