Opera Singer Reacts (& Analyzes) - Ghost Love Score || Nightwish (Wacken 2013) 

On reason people love Nightwish is that every member of the band is 100% about the music, not their ego. They all get chances to shine, but they always all give what makes the music have the story, emotion, and magic that will move the audience.

Floor did an analysis of this performance, where she explains why and how certain parts sound. It was fascinating to watch.

In my opinion this is without doubt one of the most beautiful moments in live music history. I will never understand how the music of Nightwish can hit so deep :D

I have the feeling your reaction to "the greatest show on earth" will be a complete workout

Emppu, the guitarist is actually one of my favorite guitarists just because he always gives the songs what they need and not what he can give. Most other guitarists do a little to much. He is performing a part of a whole but are not trying to make the whole bigger. His feel for the music is very delicate.

Another soul snatched by the Valkyrie Goddess

It is not only her singing but also her appearance. And how she can play fans with her stories. Nightwish is for me the best band there is. Many greetings from the beautiful Netherlands.

For info. Nightwish work to a click track pre-recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London's The Metro Voices choir group and London's Young Musicians Children's Choir,

When you want to go further on the path of our 1.83m (6ft.+) tall Dutch Valkyrie Queen Floor Jansen besides Nightwish, here is some background information on the best and most versitale female singer of our time. Floor joined the band 'After Forever' in 1997 at the age of 16. Here are some of my favourites: ‘Energize me’; Monolith of Doubt’ and Dreamflight’. Floor attended the then new Rock Academy in 1999 and graduated in 2003. She also studied 2 years at the Conservatory (1 year Music Theatre and 1 year Opera). 'After Forever' disbanded in 2009 and Floor started her own band 'Revamp' from scratch. Here she experimented with different vocal styles within one song from full operatic to death growls in seconds. Here are some examples: ‘Misery’s no Crime’, ‘Wild card’ and ‘Disdain’. Besides managing a band on her own she also did a lot of vocal coaching and as she is a perfectionist, she wants to do everything at 100%+. Eventually she had to pay the price and got a burnout. She had just recovered when end of september 2012 the call came from Nightwish to fill in for the remainder of the North American Tour at first as their second singer Annette got ill. Floor had just 48 hours to learn the whole setlist. There is a documentary made of this world tour: ‘Please learn the setlist in 48 hours’ Floor joined Nightwish after this iconic Wacken concert in 2013 as permanent member of the band. Floor continued to perform with 'Revamp’ also, but it was clear that she could not combine the two for much longer, so 'Revamp' disbanded in 2016. Floor did a side project called 'Northward' where she dived into the Hard Rock scene. The song 'While Love Died is a must see. Her stunning performances on the Dutch TV show 'Beste Zangers 2019' gave her at last some more recognition in her home country where she was relatively unknown until then. There are numerous guest appearances with other bands to find on RU-vid. To see how to get a crowd of metalheads silenced and in awe watch her featuring with the band 'Epica' and the song 'Stabat Mater Dolorosa’ and to see her in full opera mode, watch her rendition of 'O Mio Babbino Caro' from Puccini. As live concerts were cancelled and home isolation due to the Covid situation, Floor discovered RU-vid in these years. Mindblowing covers, chats with her idols and other singers, vocal masterclasses, personal insights and so much more. She even made a video reacting to herself singing Ghost Love Score at Wacken. Lots of technical info and some memories of her starting with Nightwish. Also her Fan Friday videos are hilarious. Just unpack some of these and other presents she left on her channel. Also videos of her solotour she did with songs of her impressive career. Her latest endeavour is her stunning solo album ‘My Paragon. Floor is a high sensitive person, so peace and quiet is as important for her. Living by the woods in Sweden with her husband Hannes Van Dahl (drummer of the band Sabaton), daughters Freja (turned 7 years this march) and Lucy (born last october) ,a couple of horses, dogs and cats, she found this.

This song has its own victory lap at the end.

Thank you, Daniel! As always, a fantastic reaction and compassionate, thoughtful analysis.

well, Wacken is my favorite festival. my first Wacken was in 2005, then 2009 and then of course the famous 2013 with Nightwish. I was somewhere in the third / fourth row, close to the stage. awesome experience. I saw then at least 10 times life, but this concert was magical. and yes, Jukka is my favorite drummer. he's a heavy hard hitter and puts in life, passion and accents in each song. his footwork on the double base is just awesome and it resonates in each of your bones.

Don't expect every Nightwish song to be like this. Each song is different and each one an adventure. Also Floor has many different voices she can use. Good reaction, as retired music teacher I appreciate reactors who actually discuss the music and the musicians.

The POWER of 82k human voices chanting in unison, challenging the Horns of Jerico. You can tell when Floor is about to pluck stars from the heavens, she plants her feet.

fun reaction your so animated, i cannot picture you singing opera with a straight face now :D

Floor (the Valkyrie Goddess) Jansen stands over 6 feet tall, and she's wearing 4 to 5 inch heels here.......Tuomas (the Metal Mozart) Holopainen is the keyboardist, co-founder (in 1996), leader, guru, composer, lyricist, arranger, and producer of 95% of the band's music.......audience was an intimate little gathering of 82, 000......this entire legendary show is available on both DVD and RU-vid, under the title of "Showtime, Storytime"......we can clearly see another opera singer turned into a metalhead; after all, we know that grand opera, and "classical" music are both just heavy metal without electricity......hello from the Nightwish Army, South Carolina, USA......

Awesome reaction! Your passion for music really comes through, and what better way to stoke that passion than to listen to Nightwish with Floor Jansen. Looking forward to your next Nightwish reaction. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧

Awesome!!! I've been waiting for your reaction to the mighty Nightwish and Floor. Tuomas is a brilliant composer. Looking forward to your next one. Jukka (the drummer) is a total BEAST as well. 🙂

You havent seen anything of " Floor" she can sing this+ another was for2-3h. Sometimes she is bored and makes other Things! She plays her Own Instrument!- Voice!❤

Great reaction! Id love to see you react to them perform The Poet and the Pendulum live at Wembley. Tread carefully, this is a very important song for nightwish fans due to the meaning behind it and fans often get annoyed and frustrated when people react to this song without researching the meaning behind the song first. It's quite intense, but saying that, it is an absolute masterpiece and the way Floor sings it with such power and emotion always leaves me breathless (or crying!) I highly recommend it!

With your mix of singing styles I think you’re really going to appreciate Floor.

Yaaasss! Fantastic reaction thank you so much for doing this

I love that someone aknowledged they'd heard the melody from memes for once :) You just did an epic maneuver.

Look up on Floor's YT channel, a video she made about "reacting to reactors watching Ghost Love Score" (don't recall the exact title but that should find it). It's not actually a reaction to reactors but, rather, she explains all the tiny (or big) vocal changes and choices she made in the course of this performance: why she made each one and what she was intending to achieve. I think you'll find it interesting. Jukka is a beast on the drums; I'm surprised, sometimes, that they survive a full show.

First good reaction, glad I found your channel and love your intensity. Welcome to Nightwish. A few comments on the elements of this composition. You mentioned maintaining "momentum" in Floor's first head-voice, ethereal section, but that section is about creating the sense of space between her high voice in long sustained notes with light and feminine touch, and the previous energetic, short powerful lower register of the energetic intro. It is intensity of a different kind, intensity of elevation, of soaring above. And the lyrics foreshadow the whole piece "my fall will be for you" is what she slowly sings. Whose fall? The transition to chest voice tells us immediately, "siren from the deep", now she is in the poet-songwriters voice, singing of the siren, his muse, who sang his name, which is his longing. He knows his dream in that innocent, called connection is worth everything he will ever be. His role in his craft is to hear her song and write it down; that is the relation between muse and poet. But the end of that section describes her, the muse and siren, in a new way, still in the poet's experience, as an angel without care for love and loss. Elevation has its drawbacks for powerful, emotional song - only love and loss can speak to our hearts. Then the interlude, which you noticed as a hero's journey trope, but you didn't stress (if you noticed) that we are in and under the sea, that the interlude is a journey to that habitat of sirens, that underworld where things can transform. When we return, with intensity, it is no longer the poet's experience being related; now it is the siren herself, and her relation to the poet is to desire that he "bring me home or leave me be"; the poet must conquer his muse, and both know this is a fall from ethereal, unworldly position to the knowledge of "love and loss". Hence the building passion of the piece here. The poet wants to be redeemed into childhood, longs for a love that will transcend time - and the stage is set. The band and composition have built the platform on which Floor must now ascend, soaring above the earthly energy of the band and beat to ethereal flight. She is flying in the last parts - but that flight is her fall to knowing love and loss. Her fall will be for - us. The chorus you can barely discern in the background is singing her refrain - my fall will be for you, my love will be in you, you were the one to cut me, so I will bleed forever. The poet sings us the muse's own song, the angel that falls for the creation of his art, because it must leave its high ethereal place to connect with those who know "love and loss". Tuomas is a poet as well as a composer. Nightwish reaches us deeply because of the depth of spirit in which it was conceived and the love with which it was created, and is performed. I hope this brightens your day and your appreciation of this piece.

Do you hear the oboes/ french hornes, choir...? This is not only music - This is ART!

Thank you for reacting to the single most reacted to song on RU-vid. 😊 Nightwish Army Member, Outpost Eatonville

Floor has said that the most difficult part was holding it back in the beginning of the song. Because the song is meant to grow, you cannot start at full blast, but it was also a song in the middle of the set and there was some 82000 people going crazy in front of her, so not going with the flow was harder than it looked. The monotonousness of the "hey! hey! hey!" is deliberate in my eyes; she was instructing the audience more than performing the song, and for this part of the song it worked the best if the audience repeated a constant, rhytmic chant and let the band do the tricks.

Absolutely brilliant enlivening of the song's sound world and brilliantly picked out in its details and gems. The analysis was also exceptionally professional and I learned a lot new stuff. It was really captivating to watch your reactions and for a moment I was in other worlds again. KUDOS, keep it on!

I love your style man. You really feel this and know your stuff at the same time. Stick to your guns, you are fun!

Nightwish Army Germany reports for Duty: Great Reaction !! I think our Queen captured another soul….:-) It never gets old to see people freeze when our Queen starts to sing…. About Ghost Love Score: Standing solid as a World Pillar around which the planet revolves, Floor hits "The Note," the crowd loses their shit, the band tears a hole in the fabric of Space-Time, and 82,000 people will never, ever be the same again. Floor Jansen, First of Her Name, Queen of the Valkyries and Stonehenge, Lady of Nightwish and Protector of our Metal Realm. Long may she reign. Bow, mortal !

The "Heys" are not part of the studio version of this song, so they are not meant to say anything special, but rather Floor just wants to interact with the audience. And she is at least as good at that as she is at singing. Your facial expression throughout the whole song leads me to believe that you experienced a 10 minutes and 21 seconds long “Floorgasm”. I like that. But I can tell you that was just foreplay if you dare to go deeper down the Nightwish rabbit hole. One tip, get you some good In-Ears if you want to headbang on this way. Then you don't have to hold the headphones and have your hands free for air conducting, air drumming, air guitaring, you name it and doing it right so, because Nightwish songs are not just an acoustic experience, but a whole-body experience. And you'll want to headbang, at the latest when you see Floor doing her windmill. Appreciation from a Swiss division veteran of the Nightwish Army, until the next mission. 😉

One of the most epic rock songs ever. Love the song writing (time signature, style, and key changes), the skill of the band (and the orchestra and choirs they use), and the amazing vocals (of course).

i didnt know of them until i started following Dan Vasc. He introduced me to several that i now listen to regularly. Flor is an absolute BEAST and gorgeous to

Floor Jansen's voice can make me feel so much. If an artist can do that to me, they're in my heart forever. In a different way, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder does that to me too. or when I hear Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma. They just sing with their whole soul and being.

The guitarist is Emppu. Marko is the bassist.

Back when I was a kid, we'd call this spazzing out. Enjoy the ride my friend! :)

Tarja, Floor, Anette, I don’t care. They’re all fabulous. What a gift to have 3 great singers, an actual composer, one of the most underrated guitar players, a bass player who has a beautiful powerful voice that’s all metal, and a drummer who can go an entire 10 minutes with a click track, knowing if he makes a mistake, the entire thing could go off the rails. Beautiful song!

Really, REALLY nice react. I love when smart, experienced people share their thoughts! This was, imho, a singular experience - with this lineup on this day before this audience... The intentionality of all on stage reflects the creative and performative essence that this band clearly embraces. Hope you will explore more of their product. There's a bunch, so dive in! Cheers rl 🤘👹🤘

I'm a dentist. I'm not YOUR dentist. But if YOUR dentist ever recommends getting a occlusal guard.... My jaws are hurting watching your intensity. I might have to tap out when it comes to Yours Is An Empty Hope.

Nightwish Army, Blue Mountains Corps, Australia. Nightwish since 1996. Welcome! "Follow the madness! Alice, you know, once did!"

Thank you. I like your approach of listening through once then going back for a critique.

As mentioned in the comments, the orchestral and choir parts are pre recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Metro Voices choir. Keyboardist and genius behind Nightwish Tuomas Holopainen had these parts in his head and took them to London for recording. Back in Finland he pasted the results into his composition. Hence his nick name: Metal Mozart. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HcxjKlUcjXo.htmlsi=xHdEqN4_MJn-aln1

Hi Daniel. What a wonderfully enthusiastic reaction. I have subscribed because I sincerely hope you will do some more Nightwish reactions.

Beatboxing during an opera would be ... different, to say the least! 😀

Later on Tuomas wrote some thongs for her especially- When she read the lyrics+ notes- Where do I have Time to breath?! Tuomas: Youl make it Girl!❤

Great analysis, thanks, you picked out some stuff I've not heard other analysers mention! Glad you enjoyed it so much.

Elizabeth Zharoff- Martern aller arten

Singers sing what they can, Floor sings what she wants ❤once she sang the phonebook in a Dutch radioshow ❤and It sound like a real song ❤her voice just touch your soul and grab your heart ❤she is one of a kind ❤our Valkyrie queen ❤

Listen studio version, "Once" album, recordered with The London Philharmonic Orchestra. In this time, the vocalist of Nightwish was Tarja Turunen

i love drumming like that, too, where the player is drawing the sound from the drum, not just striking it. It's very musical. It's also practical, especially with low sounds like tam-tam and bass drum. When i play those, i want the follow-through of my stroke to correspond with the conductor's baton, or the sound will feel behind the beat by the time it reaches the audience.

Love this band! Greatly enjoyed your reaction!

The Ha, ha , ha is from Camina Burana! - opens+ relaxing her mouth for the Finish!❤

Absolutely awesome reaction. Reminds me of a friend who cut's it loose the same way when digging a tune. This was a reaction and analysis worthy of the same tier as Elizabeth Zharoff and Julia Nilon when they reacted to and did an analysis of Ghost Love Score! I'm sure you will be doing at lot more Nightwish in the future. 😊

"mmmm" "owww" "aawrr" "oooh" "ooooww" "wooo" Great commentary.

Floor takes the whole stage for itself. It's worth listening to songs Floor with Marko together. You feel the song, great.

That was a great reaction Thank uou so much

The most happy dance reaction I’ve ever seen to this. Thank you ❤

Wow! What a reaction! You’re going to love exploring the Nightwish catalogue, the talented musicians & be dazzled by Floor’s vocals! Enjoy! 😊

Quite frankly I'm happy you started Nightwish with Tarja, albeit mistakingly thinking it was Floor. I discovered them back in 98 shortly after the 2nd album came out and was amazed. Screw metallica for suing napter, i discovered so much music unknown to the American people, bought many albums i would never have known of otherwise until RU-vid. Now you are on the Floor era... Enjoy the ride!

The "hey hey hey s" are not part of the song.. was not written in the song... is what we metalheads chant now and then on some part of a song. ... is our way to participate... 🤘 nice reaction and analysis BTW. 20+ years Nightwish fan here... greetings from Argentina.

🤗🍒🤘🏻 well done and welcome to the Nightwish Family

You are the best!!!!!! ❤Love you for your physical and emotional reaction❤ 💪🤘

Where much music (metal or other) can tend to be formulatic (guitar riffs and drum solos) Nightwish is anything but. Everyone does what is needed without having to be the “star”. Floor may be the front person and perceived as the star but she totally realizes and appreciates that it is the presence of all of them performing together at the very highest level that creates the Nightwish vibe and excellence. The juxtaposition of her insane range and presence and this bands hard hitting insane talent is incredible Absolutely kickass. Jukka in “Beast Mode” on the drum kit…….as usual🤘

A more recent piece of theirs I suspect you will enjoy is Shoemaker, there is the official lyric video from when the album was released back in 2020 or live 2022 from Hellfest or Deichbrand

You will probably enjoy "Shoemaker", she was stunning in it:)

Amazing reaction...Shoemaker please is other master piece❤ of Nightwish and Floor

This Nightwish Wacken concert is one of the top 5 of all time! Nightwish at its best and Floor Jansen with an performance out of this world! You have to see the whole concert! They did a DVD called "Showtime, Storytime" from this concert! I look it every year and i get always goosebumps 🥰✌🥰✌🥰✌🥰✌

happy you found Nightwish to react to, i got some serious "Mr. Rock and Roll" vibes but it is OK, and in generell it makes me happy to see people getting addicted to my most loved Band so i turned on the bells ;)

I believe that the Composing and Writing of this song (and nierly every song of Nightwish) is done by Tuomas Holopainen who's one of the founding members of the band and plays the keyboards. The actual symphonies was recorded with a symphony orchestra (was it London?) for the album. Record studio was Nuclear Blast (German maybe).

Now this is what a reaction video should be like. Many, if not most other reaction channels could do with a page from this book, if not the entire bleeping book lol. No pointless pausing 50 times during the song to comment on some random sh-t. Just pure listen and enjoy(hopefully) the music, and THEN go into commenting and analyzing *after* the song is done. This is how it's done. Really wish many other reaction channels understood this. So good job bud, honestly can't wait to see more of your reactions, especially with Nightwish and Floor in particular (she has a lot of other things besides Nightwish if u wanna dive deeper into that rabbit hole as well) Keep up the good work mah dude.

Hola desde Argentina... Que buenísima reacción a mi banda favorita de metal sinfonico!!!! Hace 17 años que los sigo, tuvo 3 cantantes femeninas .. pero Floor Jansen es la mejor de todas!!! Tuve el INMENSO PRIVILEGIO de verlos en persona en un Show que realizaron aca en Buenos Aires y... Jamás lloré tanto en mi vida!! Es incomparable el sentimiento de estar AHI!!! Emocionante por demas... Y te digo, éste tema es hermoso... Pero se puede apreciar muy pocas de las habilidades vocales de Floor... Sigue reaccionando a sus videos y te darás cuenta del porqué te digo esto... Jajajaja adoooooro tus reacciones y, muchas gracias por tanto! Un abrazo a la distancia 😊 (Pd... Si quieres ver a lo que ne refiero con distintas habilidades de Floor tienes que ver Yours an empty hope... Sugerencia nomas... Jajajaja)

You have to hear do Vilja lied. Floor can do every genre and Nightwish is a magic box .

If you want more powerful belts, check out Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean live, Buenos Aires. It is a bit further down Gabriel's list, but should satisfy your need for them belts :) Also Ever Dream, the song that Floor found to be one of the most challenging from Nightwish catalogue

🤘 FLOOR JANSEN 🤘 Married to Hannes Van Dahl Drummer in SABATON They have two girls Freja and Lucy

Moments: 31:50 Curious (or rather not) you should say this, as NIGHTWISH actually started as an acoustic project of young enthusiasts playing folk and folk-inspired music around a campfire! That was before Floor came on board, but she is able to empathize with the emotion so naturally. 35:22 Beautiful slide, no contest. If you would like to hear a real "Devil's slide" from Floor (along with other musical virtues), do listen to "Romanticide" from the same concert. :) 10:16 and 37:04 Acknowledging the drummer!

You know what they say, "Always leave them wanting more." Nightwish manages it with a ten-plus minute song.

The GODDESS Floor Jansen

The drummers nickname is "Super Jukka"!

Amazing Nightwish ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😊

You just experienced the very best live performance of all times. And this was near the end of the concert, can you imagine?.... She is a beast of a woman. That is to say a very attractive one, with the most amazing vocal abilities of all time. At home she drives fence poles into the ground with a sledge hammer ( truth). So I guess her lung capacity must be out of this world. She is not tiny either ( 6 feet and the rest, heels not included). Check out everything from her because she sings everything. That is to say she sings everything to perfection. Highly recommended!!!

In the Buenos Aires version from 2012 (also an official version) her final note is about one second longer and it fades out a bit smoother. Back then she was with the band for just a few weeks. You might want to check out that version for yourself, or maybe just compare the two endings.

If you want the note at the end to go on and be even mor ornamented watch the 2016 Tampere version she plays with her low notes more.

I can't wait for you to finally get to Epica. Positive you'll absolutely love them.

I see you enjoyed the song. Good video reaction, dude! 🙂

🙂+++ Reactor Intensity Award awarded +++ 🙂

Great reaction / workout, LOL! Enjoyed your Floorgasm.

Well this one was certainly a different kind of a reaction compared to most opera singers/vocal coaches.

As I saw this, at once I thought: as a beatboxer, you will probably find the rhythm of this song... inspiring. :) In addition to everything else that goes on above it! :))

if you find this so intensely beautiful, they also have 3 versions of “The phantom of the opera”, 1 with Tarja, the previous singer of Nightwish together with Marko, the bass player, 1 version of Floor and Marko and then also a version of Floor together with Henk Poort and that is an opera singer from the Netherlands. And then I am curious which version you like the most. (my English is not that good and that is why I have Google Translate). Greeting’s Marco. 👍🏻👋🏻👋🏻

This is the best reaction ever, that I heard! For all the band members! I bet that you are in Nightwish army a long time ago!

Happy you met our Dutch Valkyrie Metal Goddess Floor and Nightwish. Please do more, it’s all this good!

Looking through the comments, wow tough crowd. You do you, it's your channel! Lot of people saying Floor can do anything with her voice, I have to say it would be intriguing to hear her beatbox! But she probably wouldn't shy away from the challenge, she's a self-proclaimed vocal nerd.

This concert is THE Platinum standard! Floor is the best female singer in the world. They may tour again in 2026 and possibly with Marko rejoining if certain things get worked out. Nightwish Army Vancouver, BC SW Canadian Division present.

Greetings from Finland 🤘🤘

That wasn’t a belt, that was THE BELT!

Dude! Save some energy or you're going to burn out before you get through even half of the essential Nightwish catalog. 😂

Nightwish army Germany. o7 Nice reaction. Wanna see more. ❤

Maybe you can watch Floor Jansen duo with Simone Simons of Stabat Mater dolorosa or Sancta Terra both were live with an orchestra for Retrospect. The 10th anniversary show of Epica :)

Nightwish army reporting for duty 😂 Nice analysis