I was there.... every time I see this I still can't believe it that I was actually there. Tears of joy when the concert began. Have you seen Sahara live at Tampa yet? It's a banger!!!!
Floor has adored Henk Poort since she was a teenager, Henk was the phantom in the Dutch production for many years. Andrew Lloyd Webber once mentioned in an interview that Henk was the best Phantom. When Floor was asked to take part in the Dutch TV show "Beste Zangers" she only accepted when she found out Henk is also in it, she was a total fangirl when she asked him to sing in the duet episode with her Phantom of the Opera. He only agreed on the condition that when Nightwish performed in Netherands he would sing Phantom with them, since Floor agreed immediately and Toumas didn't mind. The 2 Amsterdam shows were Floor's fulfillment of this promise, and Henk was also on Floor's solo tour in the Netherlands included.
Well...Henk is a Dutch Phantom. This promise was made in Beste Zangers TV show , that he will sing this song with Floor and Nightwish, when they come to the Netherlands. And this song was a surprise to the fans. Nightwish performed this song last time 17 years ago with Tarja, and now the circle is complete... And that Crowd Roar, when Henk walked on stage, wearing Official "Nightwish Family" T-shirt, but that Floor's last note... it was insane 11 sec. NWSU/FloorFan 🤘😎🤘.
On this Phantom of the Opera Tuomas was wearing a t-shirt from Pan’s Labyrinth. An homage to Floor's song "Precibus" (Revamp)?❤ It is a fan video, taken from the movie "Pan's Labyrinth" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ng3PWuXEqb0.html
In a random fan made video, you can plainly see Emppu tearing up with emotion - must have brought back memories of performing this with Tarja - Henk agreed to do this song with Floor during her solo shows with one condition---than he had a chance to perform Phantom with Nightwish some day when they were in Amsterdam - Tuomas also agreed - then Covid hit! Glad they finally got to it - it was written that this song was not on the set list and they did their rehearsals of it with sound only coming through their ear buds - no one in the audience knew it was coming as we can hear from the gasps of the crowd
