Phantom of the Opera- Beste Zangers 2019 / Floor Jansen Henk Poort 

I'll say it again, Floor Jansen is the best singer of her generation and the current one.

Never gets old. Floor singing with the original Dutch Phantom, her long term idol.

Now THAT was a Floorgasm if I ever saw one ❤😂

I saw Floor and Henk performing this song for the first time in 17 year with Nightwish in Amsterdam in front of 18.000 people and believe it or not, but she held that last note even longer. I was right there i looked around i saw i wasn/t the only one with tears. my god it was epic.

I really liked your sensitivity, you felt everything to the max: the drama, the intense emotions, the theatricality. Although you are still at the beginning of your exploration, I predict that we will meet again for a long, long time... Red, you can call me Gabi (or Gabe, if you want) This was the last performance of the TV show in the 2019 season, and literally - the crowning of the entire season. As you can imagine, there was an explosion of joy among Nightwish fans, all of them witnessing Floor's success in her country. The Dutch media then rushed to invite her for interviews, and the possibility of solo concerts for Floor in her country, unthinkable until the broadcast of this TV show, became an increasingly obvious option. As a fun element - during the filming of this episode in Ibiza there was a storm with thunder and lightning, and the heavy rainfall almost flooded the tent where it was filmed, so the technical teams intervened to collect the water - you can notice, even during this performance, drops falling through the roof of the tent. And the thunder at the beginning was not a sound effect added at the montage.. :)

So glad you reacted to this special performance This is the song that actually unleashed Floor to the general Dutch population. They are not known as big metal fans. Floor definitely opened that door. Now she’s an icon in Holland.

The versatility of Floors voice is the amazing thing, to me the greatest singer ive heard in my 65 years of life , im so happy to have found her 11 years ago !! Moves me to tears 😢

Henk played the role of the Phantom countless times, including in London, and is rated as one of the best Phantom performers... period. This was Floor's wish, she's been a huge fan of Henk for many years and when she had the chance to ask him for this duet, she did. Henk had only one demand, "we'll do it, but on one condition, next time you and Nightwish perform in the Netherlands, i want to do this song with you and the band, in your version". And.. that actually happened and it was recorded for all to see, the moment the first notes hit, the crowd went nuts and Henk was cheered onto the stage, an amazing experience.

One fun thing with beste zangers is there are English translated versions with the discussion before and after each song. That's really neat. Especially episode one with Henk where she describers her history and fangiring for Henk a bit and, most of the other singers who had not real idea what she could do (a couple did) were blown away. Vilija Lied episode.

And to think... only one or two of the other singers had ever heard of Floor prior to this show. Just some 'Metal Chick'.... this show put Floor on the map for most people in her home country of the Netherlands... where metal is not as mainstream like it might be in Germany, Finland and other parts of the world. Henk Port was admired by Floor as a youngster.... you can tell she was shocked and overjoyed when Henk belted out that last part in a metal growl. In an interview Henk said he practiced with his vocal coach to get that growl. Put "Que Se Siente" from this same show on your list. She sings it in Spanish to honor Rolf Sanchez on the show..... his amazement at her rendition is simply PRICELESS. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DfYeLUoqw0E.htmlsi=NUFYGhFofibKRZuR

Hail to the Queen ! Nightwish Army Italian division present 🤘

for musical vocal nerds.....Floor's last note is a "D6" !!!!!

You know you're a great singer when the other singers gives you standing applause with their chins on the floor, literally....

at 5:40 when Henk went with distortion, this was only the second time he'd used it publicly. He learned to do it as a surprise for Floor's show on the couch, and when they did a bit of practice for this didn't do it as he'd been keeping it secret. So after giving it for his cover of Sound Of Silence (worth the watch. Henk is a cool guy, you should see him do Country for Ruben), he still had not used it as Phantom. Hence Floor's reaction when he cranked it on for her here, too. He has since done it a lot with her on her solo shows, and as mentioned elsewhere, with her and Nightwish when they played Amsterdam.

Imagine how awesome it was for us fans. Nightwish and Floor were unable to perform for a long time because of the lock downs and we were all having some serious withdrawls. She gave us some great covers on her YT channel to help but then this show happened and every Saturday for 8 weeks a new floor performance dropped and each one was better than the last ending in this performance. It kind of broke the internet for a short time.

THE ONE AND ONLY GODDESS!!! AND THE MASTER!!!!

Red, you're sitting there with your mouth open once again. No worries, that's most of us, too. Floor does that. She is after all, our Valkyrie Queen. I first encountered Floor several years ago when I ran across her performance of O Mio Babbino Caro (Puccini). I was flabbergasted and Floorgasmed. I'm an older guy, and my musical interests have run from classical to jazz to rock and electronica. I have a ton of LPs, some of which are over 50 years old and date back to when I was buying them back in my college days (yeah, I'm an old fart). Same for CDs. Then I discovered Floor and symphonic metal. You, my dear, have just embarked on what promises to be an epic journey. You've only just dipped your toe into the deep dark ocean that is Nightwish. I'm sure that some of the Nightwish Army have suggested that you give a listen to Epica, another classically trained symphonic metal group led by the terrifyingly beautiful and cosmically talented Simone Simons. She, like Floor is another Dutch goddess and it's no coincidence that they are best friends. So if you can handle having your mind blown yet again, check out Epica's Sancta Terra where Simone and Floor join together. Then for a truly, ahem, epic experience, listen to Kingdom of Heaven part 3 from their Omega Live set. Trust me, you have no idea.

The Dutch Queen 🙏

Hi this song was my introduction to floor a few years back. She is so captivating already on screen, and live its even more the case, I have seen het now live a few times live with her own show and also with Nightwish. Please have a look at the Phantom of the opera from the Ziggo Dome, its a perfect recording of that concert, with 17K fans. The song was not on the the setlist for 17 years and was the dream of henk to perform it with floor and Nightwish in Amsterdam. I think she is even better in that perfomance. And in case you like to see some more great perfomers: Epica, within Temptation , and something else Emma Kok with "Voila" they all will change your view of music and when listening to the text als othe way of life / living. Enjoy so many treasures in front of you.

I've seen/listened to this performance countless times. I still get chills from the opening note of her vocals. By far, yours has been the best reaction I've seen to it. Thanks for sharing it with us!

The best part is there are at least 50 Floor performances on this level, where she shows a different ability/tone/emotion. It doesn't get boring or old either.

This is STILL mind-blowing, no matter how many times I’ve seen it.

That ending D6 note for 8 seconds OMG!!! When I FIRST saw this almost 5 years ago when it first aired my fingers were LITERALLY trembling, probably the most intense "FLOORGASM" I've yet to have LOL

floor is a big fan of henk

Great Voices!! Great Artists! Great Track! Great Reaction!!!! Thank You so Much ✌✌✌ 🇦🇺

Great reaction. This is my favorite Nightwish like version of this song. The Marcel Fisser band uses the Nightwish arrangement here but makes it more rock and not as metal as Nighhtwish but still good. For me Floor's voice here is perfect. It is brighter then her performance with Henk and Nightwish in Amsterdam in 11/22. Here she is using a more musical theater style while in the Nightwish version she is going for a more operatic sound, although I do love how she holds that D5 note at the end for like 12 seconds in Amsterdam. Henk is a famous Dutch musical theater star and famous for his roles as the first Phantom in the original Dutch stage production of the Phantom of the Opera and also as Jean Valjean in the Dutch production of Les Miserables. Floor saw him as a teenager performing as the Phantom and was a huge fan of his from that point forward. Getting a chance to sing with him was a big reason she agreed to do the show. She asked Henk to do this duet with her for the final show which is all duets. Henk agreed as long as he could sing it with Nightwish when they next performed in Amsterdam. The pandemic delayed it by several years but in 11/22 Floor and Nightwish kept their promise. Fans kept hoping they would do it but they kept it a secret, even rehearsing using their in ears only so no one outside the venue would hear it. Then during he show Tuomas hit those drone notes on his keyboard and everyone went nuts knowing what was about to happen. Floor and Henk have gone on to be great friends and perform in each other's solo shows. Another great collaboration between them is a version of Dangerous Games from the musical Jekyl and Hyde. First recorded as a video during the pandemic and released on Floor's YT channel they also performed it during Floor's solo show in Amsterdam in 9/21 (video of performance also on her YT channel, professional recording of that concert was crowd funded by her fans and each song as well as the whole concert is on her YT channel). They also do a duet of her song Sweet Curse from her band Revamp in that concert. Sweet Curse is my favorite song that Floor sings (bonus she also wrote it). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t_lqvZVCwCA.html. Great song about the duality of love. Know you need to checkout my second favorite version of this song by Nightwish from the 2005 End of an Era concert with Tarja and Marko. Tarja is excellent, although I think song like the The Siren and Planet Hell are better vehicles for her gorgeous dark operatic voice. For me the real star of that performance is Marko's gritty, evil Phantom. He goes into tenor range at the end of the song with his metal distortion and screams. Best Phantom that I have ever heard.

This is my to go Nightwish song. And last april I was one of the lucky people who watched Floor perform this song with Henk Poort again. It was phenomenal 🤩😍

Hello Gorgeous, I am so glad that you got this reaction unblocked. WOW. And again, no real need to say much, 'cause your beautiful face talks volumes, whole encyclopedias... Thank you again for those precious moments you are so generously sharing with us all. And I have never heard a more visual depiction for this brilliant performance than 'a palace was built'. Just glorious... Btw, the guy in the Ramones shirt is Tim Akkerman, the only artist in this Beste Zangers line-up, who you could consider slightly as a "rock musician", all the others are pop, folk, or classical singers. So Floor, as presumably "just" a Metal singer, consistently stunned the others with her vocal and artistic abilities... With love from Germany, Prog O'Holic

"It felt like a palace was built" - AFAIK, this performance was one of the things that cemented the friendship between Floor and Henk. They're real life friends to this date. Henk was one of Floor's childhood idols, one of the reasons she became a singer. You might notice she was totally fangirling at him at times during this performance... 🙂

I expect nothing less from a Goddess..... 🤘😁🤘

Now imagine Mr Poort on stage with the Queen backed up by the whole Nightwish band singing this. This happened when Henk was a guest at one of Nightwish's concert. I'm not sure which concert but maybe one of the Army can fill in. It was a fantastic performance. EDIT: I just did a search. The link follows if you'd like to check it out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TM23gaT4zkY.html

No joke, that was the night the internet broke down in the Netherlands. After that night, Floor became a star in her country.

Wow! Just, wow! Power on top of power. This pair was not kidding around. They dun sang!!!! Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Glad to see you made it to this version on Beste Zangers. Your chin almost made to your chest but the look on your face said it all. The faces and voices of excellence. This piece to me never gets old, it's just as incredible the 100th time as it is the 1st time hearing it. Thanks for doing this reaction.

It's actually a rendition of this original phantom with the OP MALE SINGER..... Floor Jensen is a bonus

That is such a cool show. This is one of the best performances on it, my other favorite is the one where she sings Rolf Sanchez's Que Se Sientie to him. It's great not just because of how great she sounds doing it, but Rolf's reaction is priceless, he's freaking out the entire time, like it's the best thing he's ever heard.

i would suggest the song from this show called ''Winner'' Floor is singing it for the guy with the ramones shirt who wrote it for his brother who is handicapped but never complains and always looks on the bright side of everything.

Every Single Time I hear/see this version of them doing this I get total full on chills

Best Phantom of the Opera ever

Great reaction ! .. especialy about the concept of "Beste Zangers "... You are SO right !

Now you need to hear it when Henk makes a guest appearance at a Nightwish concert. To hear the power of Nightwish behind those voices is astounding. It was Henk fulfilling a promise he made to Floor to appear when they were touring to reprise this song. He was The Phantom in the live performances of the play on stage in the Netherlands.

Floor was absolutely fangirling here. She immediately said yes when her idol from her youth would also be on this show and knew exactly what she wanted to sing in this episode called The Duets. Henk Poort, baritone has starred in numerous opera, operette, musical ( and yes also in the Phantom of the Opera) tv etc throughout the Netherlands and abroad. When Floor asked him to do this rendition of Phantom of the Opera Henk had one condition: only if they both would sing it again during the then planned sold out Nightwish show at the Ziggo dome in Amsterdam. Covid put that on hold, but I was there in 2022 to witness that. It was epic. So epic in fact you can find that performance on the official Nightwish YT channel.

After watching Floors performance on these shows. I ended up watching the entire series. It's all in Dutch, (I'm Australian) but you can find the episodes on RU-vid with subtitles. It's totally worth it. "Can it be a reaction if I don't know what to say after that?" Yes! I watched a reactor who was utterly speechless after seeing this and ended the reaction right there.

check out the video from the same performance then live in the AFAS stadium Amsterdam. there Floor holds the high note almost 12 seconds..highly remmomended. greets from the NW Army in the netherlands.

Chills, every damn time!

Thanks for your reaction. I was absolutely Floored when I saw this for the first time (did not know Floor at the time). Feeling exactly as in your reaction. Best Phantom performance ever! No doubt. Thanks, gingerneighbour!

Great Reaction! In the first episode Floor sang first a German Opera Song called Vilja Lied to Henk because his mother had sang that song to him and his father when he was a boy. She explained the reason she did this show was because Henk was doing it. She said when she was young she saw Henk sing this song on tv and the last night of this show was for duets and she wanted to sing this song with him. Henk played the Phantom in the musical in the Netherlands, so he knows the song well.

Every performance she always gives 100 % , great song and love your reactions ❤

1st, Henk is a badass. 2nd, Floor was fangirling about performing with him, and it shows in her enthusiasm. She starts out spectacular, and by the end of the song she's at super-human.

Emotions like these, you don't only get from this song. Beware of "The Poet and the Pendulum", live from Wembley Arena. It had been Tuomas farewell song to the feelings he developed for his friend and primal singer of Nightwish, Tarja Turunen, yet it works for any kind of split-up...I was quite vulnerable at that time, so she hit me like a thunderstrike.

So that's what is called a "Floorgasm"! And Henk Poort was awesome as well, don't you think? He played the role of the Phantom many times. Another great duet of them is "Dangerous Game" from 'Jeckyll & Hyde', which they recorded seperately during Covid.

Congratulations you've just had your first Floorgasam !

Henk Poort and Emma Heesters "Vivo per Lei" from the show was great as well.

Yep... pretty much my first reaction too! Staring at the screen, mouth agape, for a surprisingly long time.

The full episodes are worth watching, the behind the scenes is great.

Hello again, greetings from UK Another wonderful reaction, thank you 🥰

This is what I call a good old Floorgasm.

Red-headed lass... I was lucky enough to catch "Phantom" in the last week of original cast in the West End at Her Majesties Theatre. I got to see Brightman and Crawford leave NOTHING behind as they put their hearts and souls into performing this song as their swan-song for their time on the show. This one's up there with that. I'm with you on every nuance of your reaction.

All these people on the couches professional singers and pop stars in the Netherland, Henk her partner was The Phantom on many stages, and the looks on all their faces just like mine, disbelief in just how amazing Floor is vocally. She did the same thing, and had the same responses from German stars, when she performed on Sing Meinen Song, a couple of years later, blew all their minds and stole the show.

Sublime #floorgasm😈☻🌡🔥

So heartfelt your reaction. Yes both are powerhouses Floor was suprised when Henk let out this growly vocals.

Short note: Henk was an idol in her youth, he played the dutch Phantom. She listened to Phantom of the Opera a lot. And when she heard that Henk is in the show she accept immediatly. She sang this song on metal christmas tours with different singers but not with Nightwish. Until ...

Those of us who discovered her a few years ago were eagerly waiting for each new episode to appear on RU-vid. They told us on episode one that the final show would be duets and there were so many of us hoping that Floor and Henk would sing Phantom. Well we were certainly not disappointed. There was a thunderstorm going on during this amazing performance and the tent was seriously being battered. Look closely and you can see the water pouring down everywhere. These two amazing professionals just ignored it and gave this incredible display.

Henke was an inspiration for Floor so meeting and than performing with him meant alot to her , they became really close from this show and Floor has invited him to her solo shows and he even made a guest appearance at a Nightwish show doing Phantom . Your lovely reaction had me tear 😢 up a bit to this performance.

They also sing Dangerous Game if you want another duet from them.

During the Nightwish concert the final belt was 2 times longer 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

floor and henk have such great chemistry!

Jesus. This is where I’m supposed to comment on the performance and the reaction but all I can think of is all the intense chills that were running through my body from Floor’s vocals. Yikes. ❤

She is a once in a lifetime singer!

You should look at the live preformance with Nightwish, Floor and Henk from Amsterdam❤ Floor is amazing❤

What a delicate and warm reaction, again! Floor's high notes make their ways through the universe...five years later now...wonder where her high notes would be now...somewhere near planet AF2102Yts9883NW???

I rembember the first time i watched the video i cried at the end. There was so much going on in my body.

Unfortunately the COVID lockdown started not too long after 2019 Beste Zangers aired. Floor had to put her new found Dutch popularity on hold. Nightwish was side lined and Floor returned to her small remote farm in Sweden with her husband and young daughter. Eventually she recorded several songs from her home studio and put them on RU-vid for her fans. These included "Euphoria" , "Let it Go" , "Into the Unknown", "Alone", "Adagio", and "Oblivion." Once the COVID craziness ended she returned to Nightwish and also began a solo tour with many of the songs made popular on Beste Zangers as well as solo album of her own music called "Paragon." Her solo touring band was chosen from the musicians she got to know on the 2019 Beste Zangers show. Recently she had her second daughter LUCY.

This is so amazing. It was raining so much, that Floor and Henk almost can't go on stage. Floor and Henk also did that song with Nightwish in December 2022 with a little bit of rock and metal sauce. I hope you will listen to more of Floor and Nightwish very soon. There was a Special called "Beste Zangers Songfestival" and she sang a pretty amazing version of "Euphoria". Please also listen to that.

Big floorgasms xD

Everything she did on that show was fire...😎🎏

Before this show, Floor was mostly unknown for the Dutch audience. I think she has blown away everybody and a lot of people must have thought "How the Hell is it possible that we don't know this woman ??!"

I love seeing reactors have their floorgasms, this was a massive one mate.

Late to the party in seeing this reaction but Floor and Henk's performance here is one of my favourite Floor moments and also one of the most stunning interpretations of the song I have witnessed. Floor's Christine came across as perfectly tormented, and well Henk both in voice and expression at times was equally menacing. I am glad that you have been able to share it too. There was also a lot of smiling on my end for sure seeing yet another persons mouth agape in awe as well. 😀🤣

Well, that was a Floorgasm if I ever saw one.

Goosebumps all over scalp is tingling

This is absolutely the best performance that program delivers, can remember this soooo well, this is absolutely outstanding, so perfect together, they nailed this 🔥🔥

You had your first Floorgasm

Well, that was something... Floor studied musical theatre and a year of opera (And she is a huge Henk Fan) , and Henk Poort is a Dutch singer born in 1956. Poort's major roles include Erik (the Phantom) in the Dutch version of The Phantom of the Opera and Jean Valjean in the first staging of the Dutch version of Les Misérables in the late 1990s. This performance is semented to Dutch history books and to the Golden Record (and also on the Best of the Beste Zangers LP, which I prowdley own, as a Fan). This is an understandably breathtaking performance by these two Powerhouses (and they did this song with Nightwish also) !!!! NWSU/FloorFan 🤘😎🤘.

The gritty, distorted voice that Henk pulls out is a nod to Nightwish, and in particular to Marko's rendition of the song. Floor obviously loved it - I think he may have kept it under wraps during rehearsals, and surprised her with it on stage.

Love me some Floor!

Thanks, Red. Floor touches my heart and soul. ♥

I highly recommend Floor and Henk's song Dangerous Game they did it's on Floor's personal RU-vid page and also Henk's cover of Sound of Silence from this same show...both are excellent...

the Queen sang!...you are in her army now!...

This is the leading song from the world famous musical ‘Phantom of the Opera”, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It recently went off Broadway after decades. Henke Porte is the musical singer/actor of The Netherlands that has played the phantom for decades. Floor saw him as a young teen in the role. When she came on this show he had never heard of her, although she had twenty years of fame in the metal world. She asked him to do this with her, & he agreed only if she would do it with him at a NW concert, which they did two years later in 11/22. You might want to now do that one, although NW music is better, I like their interaction, & the brightness of Floor’s voice I like better in this one. Floor has really brought a big lift to his career since this show, inviting her to sing it in many venues with her. Her big smile at him when he started singing was about him using distortion, which he had never done, but now on his quest to be more of a rocker, it seems. There is nothing our Valkyrie, can’t do with her astounding voice, including guttural growling. 😎

Oh lovely, what a performance and what a reaction! Great 👍

😘👍magic

I first heard this masterpiece in late 2019, and I still get chills. I can't even remember how many times I replayed those last few notes that Floor hit. One of, if not the most impressive live performance I've ever seen. After hearing this, Floor and/or Nightwish are most definitely on my list of bands to see live. I just hope that they come to my area someday soon

Welcome to our universe...

Hi from the UK 🇬🇧 and only one of them on the couch know who she was before this show 😊

Have you noticed while editing your reacts, Red, how at each new Floor reaction your eyes and mouth grow wider? Don't worry, it is a natural physical reaction, no need to call the doctor. Much enjoyed this video here. French Division of the Nightwish Army, looking forward to more Floor & Nightwish!

Floorgasms galore!

So, Floors performance is incredible, though it's well within her vocal capabilities, her performing Christines part as a piece of theatre whilst opposite her idol really made her go all out. That said, I think what truly makes this performance is Henk stepping out of his comfort zone. His going for the growl puts a spin on the Erik/Phantom character that doesn't really come across in the original productions, and in some ways fits the domineering, obsessive and commanding nature of the character in the musical better.

Floorgasm right there at the end Red ! It happens to us all !! Great reaction. Check both Floor and Henk singing this with Nightwish in Ziggo dome Amsterdam.

She is just magical. NWA NYC