Voice Teacher Reacts and Analyzes - Floor Jansen and Henk Poort - Phantom of the Opera

It is my hope this analysis and breakdown will help you better understand your own voice.

[Tearnofear]

"He's good" well he was the Phantom for many, many years. In the Netherlands :D

[deed]

Floor doing Vilja Lied on Beste Zangers is another great one!

[majbrat]

This was only the second time that Henk ever sang with distortion to rock it up for Floor.
He used it doing the rock version of the sound of silence during this show as well.
He has been a purely opera singer for decades and was famously, the Dutch Phantom for many years, and a personal idol of Floors.

[goldy]

Beste Zangers or "Best Singers" is a Dutch television show featuring multiple professional singers (all those folks sitting and reacting on the couches) who perform each others songs. Floor and Henk are performing the the more upbeat/rock version of "Phantom" that is performed by Nightwish. Henk Plays the Phantom in Europe and also features on the show. Floor has several videos on this season of the show including "Winner" "Shallow and "Que' Se Siente" which she sings beautifully in Spanish...you are just at the tip of the iceberg. Thank you for the reviews!

[edsomleontorres]

Next : Floor Jansen - Shallow at beste zanger to watch another Floor's side

[sixtuspettersson]

Now you most se the "another side of Goddest" "Yours Is An Empty Hope" Wembley arena !! (Floor has a little Suprice for you )hehe. Stay safe.

[MatsGarage]

Check out her Vilja Lied from the same series. It was the very first performance last years entire season of the show and you can see the other singers drop their jaws when our beloved Metal valkyrie starts to sing because they did not have a clue what an amazing singer she is. As for Nightwish songs there are so many to choose from but Ever Dream, Nemo, Storytime and Romanticide are some of the more popular ones but really you cant go wrong. It is however important to choose the right videos of the song, generally the Wacken 2013 show (same show as the Ghost Love Score you reacted too) has really good audio.

[MKEbcl]

Floor puts on an absolute clinic every time she sings on this show. Amazing.

[mattphillips]

If you're only going to do one other Nightwish performance, absolutely do Poet And The Pendulum. You won't regret it.

[phillee]

Henk Poort is a Dutch Baritone operatic singer and (as opera roles aren't a very regular gig) he also played musical theatre, and was Andrew Lloyd Webber's favourite Phantom, and performed the role in the Dutch production for years with over 600 performances - which time coincided with Floor's childhood, and she was taken to see it and idolised him for years - when they met at Beste Zangers she went all fan-girly, but Henk had apparently been following her carreer in the background ever since her time at the conservatoire studying musical theatre and Opera there after graduating from the Rock Academy. He and Tim Ackermann, with whom she'd crossed paths at festivals) were the only singers who didn't have to look her up! Shameful comment on radio in her home country. Each singer, in turn, has a day when the others sing songs for them - either one which has special meaning for them, or a cover of one of their own sogs. In this way, they found out what their singing was like in genres other than their own.
On the final episode, each chose a duet with one of the others. This was the final duet, and if you look carefully, you can see the pavilion they are in (professionally rigged and quite large) and a lot of the set being destroyed around them by a massive cloudburst over the resort where it was filmed, so water dripping in the background, Floor's back is actually wet, other singers were pulling their feet up onto the couch to keep them dry, and the band and techs were checking leads and power supplies to make sure nobody got electrocuted - that thunderclap at the beginning is not an effect, by the way, although by bringing in the band in perfect timing with it, it seems to be - a brilliant catch by the band to use it that way! And performed so brilliantly that most don't even notice that, as they are so in the zone, and the chemistry between them so good.
Just as well it was the grand finale of the series though.
But back to the show format: you (and they) could find out just how good each singer is in other genres and styles (or in theory, not - although all were good within their range last year). So this was the closing song of the series and they could not have done it better. Henk's condition for performing this with her?, to repeat it on stage with Nightwish on their next Dutch performances, and this is going to happen! I'm desperately hoping it will be properly and professionally recorded and made available for fans afterwards. Phantom has been out of their setlist too long, so I hope that performances in other countries include it, but with Marco (or who knows - maybe Troy?) as The Phantom.in place of Henk. In this show Floor performs Opera in German in one episode, a Spanish song in another, And Dutch and English songs in a wide variety of genres, and nails them all. She also sings in Latin, Italian, and I believe Finnish, which just goes to demonstrate just how versatile she is.
Believe me, you've only scraped the surface!

[nimwey]

Please check also her version of Vilja Lied at the same show, and O Mio Babbino Caro from the show De tiende van Tijl

[josejesuscontrerassalazar]

I don't mind the pauses. It's always interesting to listen to people explain what is happening.

[ledgm]

If u want an another Nightwish video. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH Live at Tampere. Long performance but you will not regret it

[oktober-vhgl]

nice reaction. Floor can sing... everything.

Since you've hit GLS and now Phantom, there's a ton of Nightwish songs that we'll all request of you, but if you really want to hear her range and ability, I would highly recommend hitting Yours is an Empty Hope live at Wembley (to hear her growl), the acoustic version of How's The Heart (like Phantom, full range singing live and without any place to hide), and then the studio version of Shoemaker off their most recent album (you'll get the aria/opera type singing in that one moreso than w/ Phantom).

One of my personal favs (and a Nightwish classic) is Ever Dream. She gets up there in like D5 range and just lives there for most of the song. That one also will give you a taste of Marko's singing ability (Nightwish's bassist). Keep 'em coming!

[rbreu]

Henk (an opera singer who played the phantom in the original run of the musical in the Netherlands) does the distortion because this arrangement is heavily based on Nightwish's version, where Marco sings the Phantom all metal growl style. For me, this is the perfect combination of both of these versions, because it shows both the phantom's smooth and alluring side as well as his creepy and ugly side.

(I also have the biggest respect that he learned to sing with distortion just for Floor. He was super nervous about it too when he sang Sound of Silence earlier, and it sounds great. Heartily recommended.)

[somedigitalist]

Great reaction and analysis. It's always nice when one of the more technically minded vocal coaches on here does a reaction/analysis to Floor. Floor's approach to interpreting vocals focuses on extensive use of dynamics and tone qualities to convey the emotion and story of the songs she sings. She does a bunch of things in her approach to this song to add dynamics to Christine's part:

1) She starts the song higher, staying out of chest voice, to allow her to start in a softer dynamic place, but uses momentary shifts into other tone qualities (e.g. the nasality and twang on there, the belty "my to convey emotion.

2) She gradually increases in vocal weight through the course of the song.

3) She starts the crescendo soft and very round, and progressive adds power, goes wider, and starts using harsh onsets as she climbs to make Christine sound more and more frenzied as the song climaxes.

If you want a Nightwish song with Floor that has lots of interesting things going on for analysis, I would recommend Dead Boy's Poem, live from Buenos Aires 2018. This performance has Floor doing some really interesting things, notably she shifts her vocal configuration almost continuously as the song progresses to slowly ebb and flow from a very soft, breathy opening all the way to a huge belt add the end of the song with no clearly defined breaks between disparate tone qualities. It's pretty uncanny.

Another excellent one would be How's the Heart live acoustic for Planet Rock where Floor is accompanied only by an acoustic guitar and changes her vocal configuration constantly to meet the song's demands. She uses varying levels of cord closure, different resonances, weights, timbres, and shows a bunch of agility. It's awesome.

[johngialluca]

Wait until you hear her growl. Yours is an Empty Hope live at Wembley

[fredrikschuster]

Some songs to really see her vocal techniques:
* Shuemaker (lyric video)
* Pan (lyric video)
* Poet and the pendulum (live)
* The greatest show on earth (live)
* How's the heart (accustic live)
* Yours is an empty hope (Live, hear her growl)

[jamesanderson]

Floor started singing in a high school musical. She joined her first band at age 16 as a backup singer and was quickly promoted to the lead singer. She kept studying singing until she was about 22. She studied opera and musical theater but she was already amazing at 17 as a symphonic metal singer. She's also been a voice teacher for quite some time.

[TheSallainen]

You should take a look at Nightwish version of this song, sung by original vocalist of the band Tarja Turunen.