Music Teacher Reacts: Phantom of the Opera by Nightwish-First time hearing Tarja! 

This is 100% live and she's killer. She was sick that night and this was the last concert she made with Nightwish. And this show is the ending of a ONE YEAR touring across the world.

This is really a true live performance.

Tarja and nightwish are live 100%. We were there . Tarja is phenomenal singer. The best metal singer of all !!!! Her voice is powerful dark amazing!!!.

I love it when the music professionals are waxing lyrical about how great Marko is BEFORE he even hits them with the first "Sing, My Angel of Music". 🤣 Incredible vocalist. He and Tarja together were amazing here. The whole band was. Tarja really pulled it out of the hat that night - she had the flu and had been feeling pretty ill earlier in the day.

Great song, great singers, Tarja is a goddess

Tarja really killed it here. No one does it better than her and she was also sick under this concert. She’s the queen, no doubt. 🙏❤️

At the end of the song you can see Tarja walking off stage. This is because she does a costume change for the next song in the set (The Siren) which is another absolute must-watch performance, not just by these two phenomenal singers, but by the entire band.

If you like bass player (Marko Hietala) sound I suggest High Hopes (Pink Floyd Triumph). There you can really se him singing. :)

This was the gig in Helsinki. Safe to say there was no monkey business like playback in Finland. The arena would have been quietly torched for that. Honesty is paramount.

Yes it’s live, and she was sick that day. You might have someone who comes by who was actually there. That’s Marko, and yes, he is phenomenal. Unfortunately he’s not with the band anymore. I would recommend The Siren from the same concert

I was lucky enough to see Nightwish live twice with Tarja. That bit at the end was spine-tingling.

Still working, "goosebumps all over"😁, over 20 years ago (2005) 'End of the era'🇸🇪🇫🇮

Always wondered what kind of new audience Broadway would get having a Phantom rock opera like this. And Marko brought such a "menace" to his Phantom (which seems more in character for a Phantom than the clean vocals) sound, it was so great

beautiful reaction! Tarja and Marko were the best duo for me because their voices are different but they complement each other very well. that little "battle of voices" at the end is impressive. Hopefully you can react to more songs from that NW era with Tarja: slaying the dreamer, the siren, stargazers, ghost love score, planet hell etc etc. and hopefully you can react to something from Tarja's solo career since she has grown a lot all these years, I recommend an aria "mein herr Marquis"; one from the circus life live show (it's totally live, no pre-recorded vocals or instruments) that came out recently "shadow play" (she plays the piano); "victim of ritual" at Woodstock; "ciaran's well" (metal symphonic); "world in my eyes" a cover of Depeche Mode. Tarja has a very versatile career with many styles and her voice has been improving over time.

This is the last Tarja concert with NW. After that she was freed from Tuomas' influence and made some amazing stuff. Check her Muse Supremacy cover from Woodstock 2016. When she sings the word "Supremacy" I get chills

Thanks for your great reaction 😂 His name is Marko ❤ He is awesome, and this was live!

This version of this song with always give me goodbumps. I've heard it hundreds of times and have the same reaction every time. The recorded version is just no cards compared to this specific live performance

did you happen to notice Captain Jack Sparrow on the front of the keyboard?.......Nightwish has had three singers over the years, and I, for one, refuse to get into better/worse with them.....they're only different; three beautiful, talented ladies, and I love them all

THANKS for some TARJAWISH !!!!!! Bought tickets today to see the GODDESS JUNE 30 in Berkeley !!!!!! 💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘

That was why Tarja said she was leaving the band before they kicked her of the band. She said her vocals couldn't handle the touring schedule they planned, 200+ days for the next year's 🙏

No worries, you don't need to compare the vocalists. They are all exceptional, the whole band is. They are definitely singing live. And think about it, Tarja did this in a full concert and she was sick. This was early in the concert, I think it was the 5th song. I hope you do more from her era. Slaying the Dreamer is a good one. The live version from this same concert, End of an Era. There Tarja uses different kind of voice. Marko (the basist and the and the singer on this one) sings in that one too, or screams...

this is live!!!

Tarja was clearly my favorite of Nightwish Greetings from Switzerland

Tarja ❤

Greetings. OK I'll introduce the band they are all Finnish BTW here. Though later members Anette is Swedish and Floor Dutch. Tarja Turunen (Taa-rr-ee-a Two ru-nen) lead vocals and founder 97-05, Tuomas Holopainen keyboards, composer, original male vocalist( on a few tracks),l founder to present, Jukka Nevalainen drums 1997-2014/manager 14-present, Emppu Vuorinen guitar founder 97-present, Marko Hietala male vocals/bass 2001 -2021. That is who is on stage and the line up from 2001 and 1st heard on Century Child 2002 though to this concert. Tilted Once upon a tour. Once was album #5 in 2004. Only after everything went public about her leaving which she only found out the next morning via a sealed letter that was given with instructions not to open until the morning. This was their triumphant home coming from a world tour. That letter was published at 2am on the bands website. That is what started the troubles that are now settled BTW between the former members but not some commentators. The DVD was called End of an Era when released and now so is the show itself. Obvious reasons. The first to reconcile were Tarja and Marko ( who both have classical training which I am sure you guessed and I can confirm. This is the answer to what happens when good friends and trained singers are let loose to show their skills as part of a metal band doing a live version of a rock musical. Magic!! That is what happens. Going by @The Charismatic Voice Marko was hitting GS and Tarja D's perhaps D5 iirc correctly and boy do they blow the roof of the then named Hartnell arena ( without a sponsor due to geopolitical issues) on October 21, 2005. 11 500 on hand to see it live. And all credit to Nightwish as a whole. I don't want to short change Jukka, and Emppu. But in 2012 at a Christmas concert being telivised in Finland both Tarja and Marko were guests. Reports from back stage were of many tears and hugs. Much hugging on stage as they sang Her version of Ave Maria. They were singing side by side holding onto each other. Very beautiful moment. A while later in Germany I think at a festival she brought Marko on as a guest to sing with her and her band during her solo career that starts in 2007 and has plans going through 2024. On a personal level its great. On a music level its fantastic. Such great talent only gets more amazing when they have eachother to play off of. The duality of male and female, beauty and the beast. Mystical/Angelic and human is a theme throughout their time together in nightwish. See The Siren and Sleeling Sun both from this show for an example of it. Now bonus fact it is not a coincidence that Tarja's mic & stand match her outfits. She stil does that to this day. Last night in Manchester, Glasgow the night before and London is next on her tour. She put out her Best of: Living the Dream in December 2022 and another in her Outlanders album We own this sky, about the history of Antigua where the visuslizers were filmed. The woman stays busy that is for certain. Wile staying humble. She calls her fans My Winter Storm. If there is one thing Finland knows is winter storms. So on behalf of all fans Kittos! ( thank you) for your reaction. There is no lack of material to explore. But don't let that stop you. And for the record. Tarja and Nightwish 96-2005. Anette Olzen 2007- 2012. Floor Jansen 2012-present

oh this was definitely live and yes, they're just that good! 😅 great reaction! Tuomas is such a gifted composer and even when they cover songs he always puts a spin on them (See: Walking in the Air - From Wishes to Eternity DVD). And Marko and Tarja's vocals are so powerful on their own but just out of this world when combined. I love Tarja's voice, she has such a dark and warm colour to it that's either really gentle and soothing or just power. But very different than Floor, because I feel like Floor's voice is the strongest when she belts and Tarja's when she goes full round classical - Floor brings the Metal to the band and Tarja the Symphonic. 🙏🏽 But both can do more than that, they're very colourful and experimental singers. :) I love pretty much every song from the first era but two of my favourites are *Beauty of the Beast live in Amsterdam 2002* (to me the prequel to Ghost Love Score) and *10th Man Down live at Summer Breeze festival* (go for the 2023 remastered version by Nightwish Arena) or *Swanheart - From Wishes to Eternity* if you feel like doing a ballad :)

Sadly Marko is no longer with the band but what a career he has in music! Top notch singer and bass player. Two Marko led songs that are worth your time are “The Islander” live from Tampere 2015 and “While Your Lips Are Still Red” live from Wembly 2015.

Thank you for the great, KNOWLEDGEABLE, reaction. One thing I've noticed having seen dozens of reactions to this video. The more music education the reactor has, (music teacher, vocal coach, opera singer), the more they appreciate the vocals of Marko, the bassist. I remember hearing that according to Tarja's husband/manager, Tarja and Marko both were not in perfect health in this concert. They did amazingly anyway. This 2005 End of an Era DVD recording is of great quality. When I first heardit it, It made me wonder if they could perform on such high level all the time, and I found a video from 2004 I think it was. The audio quality wasn't quite as good, but Tarja and Marko again did a great job hitting the high notes with no problem.

Jukka is a beast.

Funny: I got goosebumps at the same second you did! :)

I saw Phantom on Broadway in New York in October. I didn't know it was pre-recorded. It just goes to show you how underrated these bands are.

New sub here! I read somewhere that Andrew Lloyd Webber has seen this and said it is his favorite performance of "Phantom". That may be a rumor, but hey...we'll run with it!

Tarja is the best famale singer of metal EVER!!!

🤘😎🤘 Enjoyed your reaction. I've been a Nightwish fan since 1998. Floor is absolutely phenomenal! But on this specific song & performance... I gotta give it to Tarja and Marko. Their vocals were so much more powerful and impactful than Floor & Henk.

If you want to hear more Tarja's vocal abilities, I recommend something from her solo career, for example song "Victim of Ritual" live from Woodstock 2016, great performance. :) I have one great recommendation for analysis for music teacher, please react to 女王蜂 - 火炎 (Queen Bee - Fire) performance from The First Take RU-vid channel. The First Take is channel where musicians have only one take to perform song and it's publishing on RU-vid. Queen Bee is japanese punk/rock/pop/disco band and their vocalist Avu-chan is transgender/non-binary person, she can sing with male and female voice. In this specific song she using some insanely high notes, it's just incredible, but she don't use much her female voice, more in warming up before performance, but I think it's great performance for music teacher to analyze. :) And this song was using as first opening song in anime "Dororo" from 2019, but in The First Take is acoustic version, just acoustic guitar and insane vocal. Please, react to it. :) But I must say that original version of this song, I mean from album, is also insane and have music video, so I recommend also original version. ;) And from symphonic metal I can recommend two japanese bands, one is more like symphonic speed/power metal with male vocal, band 摩天楼オペラ (Matenrou Opera), I recommend song "真っ白な闇がすべてを塗り替えても" (Masshiro na Yami ga Subete wo Nurikaete mo) official music video, amazing song, and second is symphonic metal with female singer, she has operatic music education, band Liv Moon, song "Never..." from their newest album is really good and have music video. :)

All hale the REAL TRUE QUEEN 👑 of NIGHTWISH and of ALL FEMALE SYMPHONIC METAL SINGERS!!!!, the very beautiful looking and very unique voice of the enchanting TARJA!!!!😀👍👍👍🤘

Both Tarja, and female vocalist after her, Anette, found the world tours quite taxing for their vocals. They played about every second night a few weeks in a row, and then went to another continent. Anette's tours were even harder than Tarja's and she had lots of problems with her health and vocals. Tarja has quite an extensive education in singing and she takes care of her vocals, fit and health, exercises a lot, which helped her, but still the biggest problem (publically at least) was the desire of the boys to have more gigs and longer tours, and Tarja's wish to have less gigs and cut tours shorter, which lead into a conflict the band couldn't work out. I don't like much this End of an Era concert if I listen Tarja, because in this concert her vocals don't sound as rich and easy as they usually are. There's lots of great quality other concerts of her Nightwish era (always check the "remastered" versions made by fans), but unfortunately most reactions are into this (biggest Nightwish) concert. Also, in this concert her songs are sung more in contemporary vocals than the bel canto style which she used mostly before. And then like you can read from other comments, she had a flu: the day of this concert she was afraid she couldn't sing at all and after the concert she wrote she just barely made it through (of what she was happy about).

Marko is amazing, a botched throat surgery nearly took his voice completely!

Amazing reaction for amazing song!

I had the amazing opportunity to see this song performed live by Tarja in 2015. Next year in my town she will be singing this song again but this time along with Marko. This will be insane. I'm so lucky!

Marko has been in Finnish Metal Scene since 1984

This performance is the probably the most commonly watched Nightwish video for those that have seen Floor, and want to see the original singer, Tarja. Those watching agree she is also great, just different than Floor, but most are blown away by how good Marco is, lol.

Best reaction to this song ive seen

I am SO GLAD that somebody gives enough credit to their drummer, Jukka Nevalainen!!! He was a beast!!! And so charismatic

I had the pleasure to listen to this on live

React to High Hopes and there you will see Marko shine...

Why have I discovered your channel only now😭👍

I love when you say you have goosebumps. Music does that to me and it was ridiculous how I would walk around looking like a plucked chicken when music was playing I could not stop it from happening no matter where I was. People would ask me if I was cold. I would be like no I like/love this song.❤

Hello @ShawkaReacts, you right, they are more interested in the music than in themselves, always. The complete name of male singer is Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala, pity he left the band.

Of course, a musical company performs far more gigs in a run then a band does. Still, amazing performance.

This is live and at the end of the concert. One piece of context too, is that Nightwish came together when the keyboardist, Tuomas, was attending a musical college in Finland. Their educational system is a little different so IDK if there is a direct comparison. He is a classically trained musician who got his start with the clarinet. Tarja was one of his old classmates who he called to join his band years later.

"Those Darn kids and their Rock-n-Rock... where's the real music??" Sorry, I just had to channel the 60's for a moment. Symphonic metal draws in so many incredible, talented and trained musicians. Entire orchestras have lined up to play behind bands like Epica for those rare occasions when finances and 90-piece classical groups get to recognize the beauty of this music. (See also Devin Townsend and his Plovdiv concert). Sorry, I know : 2 months too late. I just had to toss that in. Later.

i know i am a year later watching your reaction, but there are 2 things i want to point out. 1 at start of video Jukka, the drummer can be seen grabbing his head. That was because he was having a migraine headache during the performance. 2 Andrew Lloyd Webber the original composer of the broadway play loved and spoke highly of Nightwish’s performance of Phantom.

Tarja y Marko ❤🎉🎉

Fabulous ❤, also worth watching Nightwish (Floor + Henk Port) in Amsterdam live. It’s recent and on RU-vid. Big love to all Nightwish vocalists 🙈❤️

Marko , Anette & Floor are very good singers but please never compare them to the Divine Diva👑 goddess Tarja Turunen🔥💖💐

Tarja forever. I agree, trying to compare Tarja vs Floor is just nonsense. After this concert Tarja was fired right away. Another excellent song by Tarja is “Swanheart” (live, from concert “From wishes to eternity”)

Hopefully you are going to do some of Tarja solo career too, she have a lot of incredible songs!

Nightwish and lipsync? oh you sweet summer child 😂

10:40 huh :D it's LIVE.

marcos slide back down was soooo epic O__O but you cant really hear it unless you pay really close attention at the "my angel" part ^^

Dont get me wrong, Floor is truly a stellar singer and a hell of a performer...but she's no Tarja. Please, if you haven't already watched it, check out Nightwish's song Sleeping Sun. There are two versions, but i recommend watching the 'mideival' version of the video, it's stunning.

Marco is the one who killed it here! He makes the whole song.

Nightwish just very recently (like a few days ago) performed this live again at a concert, featuring Floor and Henk Poort (a Dutch opera singer, I think).

people come to this song for Tarjia and then they find Marko

They never use any backing tapes,this is her live

Marko is a rabbit hole to explore, for solos try Master Passion Greed. High Hopes. Endlessness - Does include a wee bit of Floor in it. Poet and the Pendulum (demo version)

One thing is certain: however good Floor is, Tarja's singing ability didn't hold back Nightwish.

Marko is the best Phantom that’s ever been.

NIGHTWISH IS LIVE BETTER THAN RECORDED !!!

The true queen of symphonic metal music and also Andrew Lloyd Webers favourite version. Tarja at her best with Nightwish..

i got to se this setup in oslo. real good concert ;)

now you know who is the one for real NW fans

Do Tarja's band's version of Muse's "Supremacy" next! She looks so happy doing it in Milan or in Poland's Woodstock. Avoid the performance she did with Aria's Valeri Kipelov, because the latter has turned into a Putinist. As beautiful as it looked back then in the pre-Marin era of Finland when it was all co-op and unicorns.

Marko!!

Tarja was kicked off right after this concert.

You were wondering about the bassist.. As already mentioned, that is one Mr. Marko Hietala. He left Nightwish shortly after COVID hit, as he needed a break and was completely fed up from how the music industry is. He has no hard feelings or any type of animosity or anything towards the band; but he definitely needed a break because his head wasn't in the right place for music. But about his voice, as you were saying that he's up in the stratosphere.. consider this: Marko had a botched throat surgery a few years before this, that caused him to lose his entire falsetto range, so everything you are hearing is from his chest voice. He had to completely relearn how to sing and get that range back... rumor had it that at one point he had hired a vocal coach to help him with singing again... some unknown vocal coach named Floor Jansen. If you really want to hear him excel, react to the Nightwish song "The Islander", live from Tampere. That will give you a good idea of what he can do and how you can compare his voice there to what you are hearing with Phantom of the Opera.

Will you please listen/ react to Tarja- Supremacy live in Milan? 🙂

Tanja ist und war die Beste Sängerin von NW !!!!!!!!! MARCO singt!,!!!!!!! Ich habe NW mit Tarja live gehört und da NW mit Anette. Es kommt keine an Tarja ran !!!!!!!!!

Nothing makes me happier than people reacting to this for Tarja but getting absolutely floored by Marko!

This is Nightwish, my dear. There's no space for beginner

React last ride of the day at TAMPERE And yours is an empty hope at tampere too

🤩👌💥💯🎼 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙

What kind of an ”artist” would even use playback?

To nitpick, Phantom is a London West End original, not Broadway...

The j in Tarja is pronounced exactly the same way as the J in Jansen.

To get the pronunciations of the Finish names right., checkout this 42 second video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DpapnmXoIZk.html You just watched Tarja's final performance with Nightwish. It was the last concert of the tour and she was fired immediately after this shown (Hence the "End of an Era" video) You can tell it was not for under-performing.

Nightwish did this with Floor Jansen and guest singer Henk Poort, last November. Ziggo Dome Amsterdam. I was there, it was epic. When Henk walked on stage the whole venue exploded.

Im just gonna be super biased and say that this is the best version nightwish did, and this is better then the original. While im at it, Disturbed's take on Sound of Silance is better then the original. This is music and ofc everyone is allowed to have their own opinion and taste.. but this is IMO just the most amazing sound this song could ever have.

original nigthwish...

You should pronounce her name more like Tar-Ya. And roll that r like your life depends on it. Imagine how a Scottish person would say it and you are pretty close. She's a fine singer, but the best singer Nightwish has ever had is Marco Hietala. If you want to hear more of his singing, he has a band of his own called Tarot. Pyre of Gods is a good song to listen to from them.

Night after night, after night, wait she was fired after this tour 😊

Her name is Tarja, exackt as it spelled, with an hard rolling R, not Tarcha or whatever

"Original Broadway version"??? Er... Broadway 1988; London's West End 1986 - just fyi

Marko really overshadowed her in this song but Go for wishmaster by Tarja bro you won't regret it.😉

It's more like Taryah. J = y

I saw a video of this song in 2023 played by TARJA AND MARCO (live in brazil). They can't do it anymore. very sad :/

Is this section actually more taxing than the Queen of the Night aria? Or are opera singers just made of sterner stuff?

Must be an American thing. When Phantom is performed in Sweden they don't do playback. And of course Tarja is singing live.

Henk was the Phantom in the Dutch production and was apparently a favourite of Andrew Lloyd Webber. When Floor asked if he'd duet it with her (she's been a massive fan of Henk since she was young) on the TV show Beste Zangers a while ago, he said he'd do it if he could also do it on stage with Nightwish. The band agreed, and they've just released the video of it in the last couple of days.