We're In Awe! | Floor Jansen & Henk Poort | Phantom Of The Opera | 3 Generation Reaction

[neilflood]

Donna is correct, the audience are all singers (they all speak Dutch), one presenter and seven guests. This show "Beste Zangers" they have seven episodes where six singers sing a song that is important to the life and/or career of the seventh. This is recorded on a Spanish island over a period of a couple of weeks where they are isolated from friends and family. The idea is to build a chamaraderie between the group, which certainly happened in this series. This is from the season finale where all the guests do two duets. Floor picked Henk to do Phantom Of The Opera to duet with as he became here idol when she saw him preform in Phantom Of The Opera on stage when she was young.

Before the singers signed the contract for the show in this season (2019) I believe only Tim Akkerman (Ramones shirt) knew who Floor was as he is a rock singer, despite Floor being the highest selling Dutch artist at that time. All the other singers are from different genres, so were unlikely to come across Floor as she was in a Finnish band and living in Sweden.

A few other Beste Zangers suggestions. Henk & Emma Heesters singing Vivo Per Lei from the same episode and Floor singing Vilja Lied to Henk in his episode. If you want something completely different, how about an opera singer rapping for the first time in her career? Maria Fiselier singing Lose Yourself in the 2018 series.

[crazykaletrucker]

You MUST hear Henk doing THE SOUND OF SILENCE.. same "BESTE ZANGERS" show🙏🙏👌👌

[joeyc]

Definitely check out all of Floor Jansen performances on Beste zangers awesome 👌

[jamesanderson]

Floor is a fan girl for Henk Poort. When she was very young, he was doing a bunch of musical theater and she loved what he was doing. Henk was the Dutch Phantom back when it was touring.

[niln]

Henk Poort is best known for opera and musical-theatre performances. He portrayed Erik (the Phantom) for 17 years. He's also performed as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. Floor idolized him, and begged to perform this with him for the show. He agreed on the condition that he could sing it with her on stage during a Nightwish performance. The rest, as they say, is history. On other episodes of this show, Henk sang Josh Turner's "Your Man" and the Disturbed variant of "The Sound Of Silence", showing his own versatility.

As far as what Floor can't sing...badly. Floor cannot sing badly.

[ronaldderooij]

Floor called this performance on Dutch TV "magical" "a highpoint in her career (because she sang with THE Henk Poort, her idol)" and "an experience you only have a few times in your life". Henk never heard of Floor, as he is not a metal fan, but a musical theatre and opera singer. Especially to honour Floor, he learned how to sing with distortion for this show. Floor and Henk now collaborate regularly during Floor's solo concerts.

[clivematthews]

This is my favourite version because Floor's singing is much closer to the original. The first time all the other singers were shocked was when Floor sang her first song to Henk Poort, a rock version of Vilja Lied from The Merry Widow opera.

[Bolo]

Everything Floor did on Beste Zangers is gold.

[jeffk]

“Oh my goodness, THAT NOTE!!!”
Queen to D6. Checkmate.

[ytcag]

Greetings.
On an awesome note, Floor not only brings Henk along to perform "Phantom" in her solo shows, NIGHTWISH also had him as a guest to perform it with them last year.

Phantom of The Opera is a musical and at the end of the play during this song, the Phantom pushes the character Christine to hit the high note.
So Henk played his part accordingly.
Coincidentally, Henk Poort played the Phantom in the Dutch version of the musical from 1993 to 1996, so he was already a seasoned veteran, and Floor's opera role model.

This episode aired in December 2019 and the "duets" were done as the season finale.

Cheers! 😊❤️🤘🤘

Oh....
Floor was voted "Best Singer" that season.

[christomashofski]

This was the closing act for the 2019 season of Beste Zangers (Best Singers, of course). The cool thing about this season was that Floor was also the opening act that kicked it off and set the tone some eight weeks earlier. And all the other Dutch singers actually did NOT know Floor at all. You see, in the Netherlands, much like in the U.S., metal music is not widely liked and not considered "mainstream." So, before the first act, "Vilja Lied" an aria from the 19th Century German operetta, "The Merry Widow, " they all appeared as though they did not take her seriously, looking with an attitude that I imagine may have been something like, "Oh look, how cute. A metal chick. What's she gonna do, growl for us?" And then she opened her mouth! Nobody doubted her ever again after that, and it was fun to watch how their attitudes and appreciation changed and grew as the weeks stretched on.

The initial invitation to the show was intended to, perhaps, help Floor by giving her more exposure in her home market and increase her popularity. While that certainly did, in fact, happen, the reverse happened to an even greater degree: Floor's presence increased the exposure and popularity of the TV show to an audience much larger than the Netherlands, i.e., the whole world! For example, how many of us Americans would have ever even heard of, let alone start watching and giving free advertising plugs for, a little ole Dutch TV show? In addition, she stole the heart (in a professional sense) of the very famous Dutch opera legend Henk Poort, an "idol" of hers as a child, and convinced him to join her on a solo tour after the show. He agreed to do that if she, in turn, could guarantee him an invitation to appear on stage with Nightwish! And he agreed to learn how to modify his opera voice to do one verse in a metal growl at her request. And in addition to all these things, Floor managed to "steal" the TV show's session band (the Marcel Fisser Band) to be her band on the solo tour! Talk about turning the tables!

[yourwinefamily]

Donna: "should do a country western song". Well, Floor does do one song from this same show that has a CW flavor: Written by the young guy on the couch, entitled: "About Love, I Don't Know A Thing", Great song! If you do choose to view it, try to get one video that has the introduction interiew that is followed by the song. Gives some great background info.

[YoJimBo]

Floor Jansen & Henk Poort - Dangerous Game

[jeffreyphipps]

In the musical, the phantom tells the lead female character (Christine) during this song, "sing for me my angel of music".

[jamescurfman]

This video was one of the Internet-breaking videos of 2019 (obviously for GREAT reason). I am surprised none of you heard about it before now... Oh, well. You know about it now! :)

This was THE LAST performance of that night and the Finale to that entire season of Beste Zangers. That big thunder-crash at the beginning of the video was REAL thunder outside of the tent they were recording from; I think it fit the ambiance of the song perfectly and the timing could not have been any better. They were sitting in Ibiza, Spain, during the April storm season. At certain points in the video, rain can be seen coming into the tent.

It can be said that Floor and Henk 'brought the house down' with this performance! :D

[martintucker]

They also did live. Her last note lasts approximately 14 seconds. Worth a look. 😉 🤘🤘🤘

[treintje]

Yes, they are all singers, but each from a different genre. Henk is an opera and musical singer. The basic concept of the show is that the singers take turns in singing each other's music while giving their own twist to it. This is the last episode of the season, the duet episode. In this episode each singer gets to choose a duet partner and a song to sing. It was Floor's choice to sing The Phantom with Henk, because she admires Henk and he played the character of the Phantom in the Dutch musicals back in the nineties. This performance was the closer of the season of 2019.

[rickphil]

Hello again, you three lovely ladies. This was another fantastic performance by Floor alongside Henk. There is a recent video of Floor performing this with Nightwish and with Henk making a guest appearance in the Netherlands which is also fantastic. Thank you for continuing to check out and react to more Nightwish and Floor live performances. Loved it.

[mikkolaine]

Henk "telling" her to sing is actual lyrics of the performance by the character Erik/Phantom.

[blackpienus]

They've become great friends since the show.