First Time Hearing NIGHTWISH | Phantom of the Opera | Singer Songwriter REACTION

Instagram @calebcoles1

[CalebColesMusic]

► *Check out my music with a progressive metal cover of Dimash here!* ►

[gabriel.bardac]

Hello Caleb Coles [Music] ! Nightwish fans here, your reaction just appeared on our radar..
Welcome to the world of symphonic metal! And thank you for checking this legendary band, performing in 2005 in the"End Of An Era" concert, in Helsinky, Finland, then with Tarja Turunen, the first female singer of the band, together with the bass player, Marco Hietala. This was also Tarja's last concert with the band, she was fired immediately after the show, with an open letter. Bitter-sweet memories..
About the instrumental and vocal added parts - it's good to know they recorded their orchestral and vocal back tracks with prestigious institutions as London Philharmonic Orchestra. London's The Metro Voices choir group and London's Young Musicians Children's Choir as their regular partners.
As I saw you enjoyed this powerful performance of both Tarja and Marco, and I'm sure you noticed all the changes in the musical arrangement. The "responsible" is Tuomas Holopainen, the keyboard guy.
Since this is your first Nightwish reaction, it is my duty to give you the short history of the band concentrated by Ann Waychoff, one of the biggest Nightwish fan who has since passed away (and I am doing this in her memory):

" Nightwish was started in 1996.They are considered a Symphonic Metal band, with a female main singer. They are from Finland.
Tuomas Holopainen, the keyboard player, composes and writes the lyrics for 95% of their music. Marco Hietala is the Bassist and vocals .And there is the guitarist Emppu Vuorinen . Then there is Troy Donockley from UK who is a multi-instrumentalist and vocals. Jukka Nevalainen is the drummer. In 2015 due to Jukka's health issues Kai Hahto became the drummer and as of now is a permanent addition.
Nightwish has had three singers. 1st one was Tarja Turunen (Operatic vocals) - you just heard her. She was with them until 2005. The 2nd one was Anette Olzon from Sweden (Poppy, strong vocals). She was with them until 2012.The 3rd and current singer is Floor Jansen, from Netherlands (power, operatic, versatile).
There are live concerts that you should use depending on what era. From Wishes to Eternity and End of an Era (Tarja), Montreux Festival live 2012 and Exit Festival (Anette), Live at Wacken 2013, Live at Wembley, Live at Tampere, Vehicle of Spirit, Decades live (Floor). I hope this helps.
I want to welcome you to the Nightwish community. I hope you like them enough to continue the journey. Believe me Nightwish will surprise you with their songs. You will never know what to expect. They are unbelievable live. I want to warn you that Nightwish fans are hard core. So be prepared. lol "

Hope you'll continue this journey with us, so I'll drop here a list of songs with the current lineup of the band you may like (please consider this list of links only as "a tip of the iceberg", an indication that they have a vast and very diverse repertoire, and not as something mandatory):



Thank you! Waiting for more Nightwish reactions. All the best from RO. Stay safe.

[teresalehtonen]

Tarja the original singer ( and imho the best) was very sick during this show, high fever and she vomited between songs. So kudos to her. Cheers from the land of the Nightwish. Finland <3

[Idefixu]

Since you are a singer/songwriter yourself I'm sure you would love Nightwish "Ghost Love Score" Wacken 2013. Composition by the band founder/leader Tuomas Holopainen, and vocals by Floor Jansen, the 3rd and current Nightwish female vocalist. The one you just heard is Tarja Turunen, the original female lead vocalist of Nightwish. The role of the Pahantom was sung by Maorko Hietala, the bassist/vocalist.
I like the way you go back to check some points of interest, some high notes in this case, after you have finished watching the video/performance.
Greetings From Helsinki Finland!

[kateharrison]

Walking In The Air. It does not have crazy amounts of views of reactors but it does something to me. If not a reaction please give it a listen.

[mishaaleksander]

Tarja is my preference of Nightwish frontwoman and she has the first 5 albums with the band with lots of epic songs. I would love to hear your reaction of "Everdream" with Tarja from the same concert "End of an Era". Thank you and Happy New Year!

[smaugthegolden]

I like how Marko lets this last note fall down all the way down to a deep growl. He does this again with Floor in Romanticide (Wacken) with Floor.

[soundslikeblue]

Great reaction Caleb Coles! Thank you very much!
Tarja Turunen was the original Nightwish vocalist for almost a decade, defining a big part of their sound with her classically infused vocal techniques which combined perfectly with Nightwish's inicial power metal and later symphonic metal sound, and also with Marco's vocals, as you noticed it was a perfect match in every way!
The great thing is that Tarja has been having an amazing solo career in the last 15 years... Her voice is high (her last note on this one is an Eb6), but also a full and really powerfull suported sound (and throughout her career she keeps on experimenting new things with her vocals, including a haunting dark and lower register she can belt out), plus having this theatrical presence on stage... I'm really glad you liked it!

As a sugestion, I'll leave you 3 links for some essential Live performances by Tarja Turunen solo in recent years:

I hope you enjoy these ones as much as I do! Cheers! \m/ \m/

[mfersol]

OMG first you reacted to Dimash who is my #1 singer and made great covers of his songs <3, and now you react to my favorite band with my favorite singer Tarja. Thank you so much!!! <3

[corneliusantonius]

A singer AND a a song writer you say, This is going to be an awesome ride to watch 😜

[adelinaacero]

Thanks so much for the reactions. Nightwish is great with your reactions makes the experience even greater✨💫⭐️💛

[Jeannine]

Loved your reaction and enthusiasm to this, Caleb. I downloaded this performance some months ago, it's fantastic! It's great to know POTO is you favourite musical. It's a masterpiece and is my favourite also, I never tire of listening to it. I saw it when it played in Sydney waaay back, with Rob Guest playing the Phantom, may he RIP, gone too soon 😔 I went to see Love Never Dies three times when it played here in Sydney, with Ben Lewis, love his baritone as the older Phantom and Anna O'Byrne. I met Ben and Merecedes at the Stage Door after one of the shows. I have the DVD that was made of one of the Melbourne shows and the DVD of POTO with Gerry Butler and they both get good rotation with my stereo hooked up and blasting.

[Jeannine]

I just had another listen to your version of Endless Dimensions. I love your maaad hard rock version, stunning vocal and the driving electric guitar work 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤

[stuartharris]

Nightwish are on another level. Nice to see you again

[melicriszoe]

Hello! nightwish was born in 1996 with Tarja Turunen (who sings here). initially Toumas (keyboardist) wanted to form an acoustic band until he heard Tarja's voice and was so surprised that he decided to do this fusion that we know as symphonic metal. they made 5 records. songs like ghost love score, sleeping sun, slaying the dreamer, planet hell, nemo, etc etc were sung by Tarja many years ago. Now Floor sings them, that is why you will see many repeated songs sung by these two singers, they are different versions. Tarja has an academic training in opera since very young, so she has a lot of technique and vocal range. If you compare ghost love score you will see the difference that I speak of. I like the old versions better. all they recommend after 2005 is without Tarja. She stayed until that year and then formed her solo career with a lot more variety in her voice. you will find many fans of Floor recommending her songs in Tarja's videos and insisting tirelessly without commenting on anything good. I recommend the old nightwish: ghost love score, wishmaster, slaying the dreamer, sleeping sun, ever dream, nemo, planet hell, the beauty of the beast etc. and after his solo career: supremacy (I think it reaches a higher note), walk alone, anteroom of death, serene, victim of ritual etc. I really liked your analysis, Tarja and Marco made a great pair !! sorry for my English. greetings from Argentina!

[elfenhupfer]

Yeah.... Nightwish! Love classic trained voice with hard rock music. This is my all time favorite performance from Nightwish with Sopranosinger Tarja! Greet U from Austria... stay well!

[chaosultimamage]

YOUR vocal range, omg, just imitating them, this is the first of your videos I've watched, holy shit.

[joshuaburba]

Hey Caleb, since I've been a long-time subscriber, it's cool to see you finally react to Nightwish. They are a phenomenal band with tremendous talent, as well as a huge diversity in their music, from sounding like Metallica to sounding like a celtic folk band.

Since Gabriel gave you the rundown, I'll just add something that you may not hear from the hardcore fans that particularly pertains to you and I as Christians.

Just know going in that several band members, including the primary composer Tuomas (keyboardist), are outspoken atheists, and even have a few songs that are direct attacks on Christianity and/or God ("Yours is an empty hope, " and "Greatest show on earth" are 2 examples).

Does this take away from their tremendous musical abilities? Not at all. Do all their songs have such themes? Not at all.

I really enjoy many of their songs. But, knowing that you're a Christian, I thought it appropriate to let you know those things up front, as you begin diving into this band.

Take care brother. Happy New Year to you and your family!

[sakarijoenvaara]

Oh Caleb, this breaks my heart. I was there in the End of Era, this is my home genre, my home land, my favorite band all time. Been in so many concerts. What happened after End of Era truly was devastating, Tarjas follower as a solist Anette was such a disappointed, she was not bed, but not right for tye genre and now Floor is doing a great job again. As the End of Era goes the crown jewel is Ghost Love Score, it is wonderfully done also by Floor in Wacken version, the current official live version. Ghost Love Score is by far greatest masterpiece in the symphony metal. I have been waiting some reactor to be ballsy enough to do a comparison between the two, to point out awesomeness of both, not finding which is better as there js no such thing.

Loved following your face as it feels I am seeing the song again for the first time or screaming in the audience.

As the other great songs, fabulous songs, worth looking at in this concert is Siren, Slaying the Dreamer, Wishmaster and Wish I Had an Angel,

Welcome to world of Mozarts of today, they live here, in this genre and in this band.

[timons]

I'm glad you reacted to this and I hope you'll do more Nightwish reactions in the future ;) because they have really talented singers! Their Wacken show from 2013 is awesome. I highly recommend watching this show if you have time.