First Time Reaction to NIGHTWISH - "Phantom Of The Opera"
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Welcome to the world of symphonic metal. Nightwish does many songs with a musical theatre style.
I love it!! Had no idea it existed till now!
You’re in for one hell of a ride. Nightwish is World Class and one of the best bands in the world ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hello Stacey [ StaceyRPG ] ! Nightwish fan here, your musical quest summoned me.
Welcome to the world of symphonic metal! And thank you for checking this legendary band! This live recording is from Helsinki in 2005, then together with Tarja Turunen [pronounced Tar-rya], the 1st female singer of the band, and Marco Hietala, bassist and singer.
About the instrumental and vocal added parts - it's good to know they recorded their orchestral and vocal back tracks with prestigious institutions as London Philharmonic Orchestra. London's The Metro Voices choir group and London's Young Musicians Children's Choir as their regular partners.
Since this is your first Nightwish reaction, it is my duty to give you the [updated] short history of the band concentrated by Ann Waychoff, one of the biggest Nightwish fan who has since passed away (and I am doing this in her memory):
" Nightwish was started in 1996.They are considered a Symphonic Metal band, with a female main singer. They are from Finland.
Tuomas Holopainen [pronounced Tuo-mas], the keyboard player, composes and writes the lyrics for 95% of their music. [Sami Vanska was the bassist of the band starting with their 2nd studio album, he was with them until 2001. Then Marco Hietala was bassist and vocals, since 2001 to 2020. He recently announced his retirement both from the band and the public life for the next year at least. Then in May 2021 Jukka Koskinen [pronounced Yukka] became the bassist of the band, for the Human :II: Nature tour - and recently, the band announced he became a permanent member] And there is the guitarist Emppu Vuorinen [he also recorded the bass lines for their 1st studio album]. Then there is Troy Donockley from UK who is a multi-instrumentalist and vocals. Jukka Nevalainen [pronounced Yukka] is the drummer. In 2015 due to Jukka's health issues Kai Hahto became the drummer and as of now is a permanent addition.
Nightwish has had three singers. 1st one was Tarja Turunen [pronounced Tarr-ya] (Operatic vocals) - you just heard her. She was with them until 2005. The 2nd one was Anette Olzon from Sweden (Poppy, strong vocals). She was with them until 2012.The 3rd and current singer is Floor Jansen, from Netherlands (power, operatic, soprano.....most versatile).
There are live concerts that you should use depending on what era. From Wishes to Eternity and End of an Era (Tarja), Montreux Festival live 2012 and Exit Festival (Anette), Live at Wacken 2013, Live at Wembley, Live at Tampere, Vehicle of Spirit, Decades live (Floor). I hope this helps.
I want to welcome you to the Nightwish community. I hope you like them enough to continue the journey. Believe me Nightwish will surprise you with their songs. You will never know what to expect. They are unbelievable live. I want to warn you that Nightwish fans are hard core. So be prepared. lol "
For an extended set of suggestion (with links), I posted 2 huge comments in the community tab in my main YT channel: www.youtube.com/@gabriel.bardac/community
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Good to see you Gabriel.
Stacey - welcome to NW - enjoy!
Evening Commander. Seems like this auxiliary new arrival to the column will be in the line with the troops very soon. A pleasant reaction indeed. This will be a long and exciting campaign for her. - Nightwish British Light Infantry Regiment signing off for now.
And Gabriel has arrived...and welcome, Stacey to Nightwish and the world of Symphonic Metal. I very much look forward to seeing more of your Nightwish reactions!
Ah, Gabriel. Right where he belongs. Welcome to Nightwish! The army is here for your journey.
If you do choose to continue down this path, I recommend following Gabriel's link and picking a song who's name interests you the most. You will enjoy it, and we will enjoy your choice. I promise.
hey gabriel hope your doing well
Welcome to the Nightwish world! Great reaction. They are not well-known in the US, but they're very big in Europe and South America. They also tour in the US. Super talented band and their live performances are really legendary. You'll read comments about their live performances a lot 😄
Check out Ghost Love Score (Official live). There are two Nuclear Blast versions, choose which have 32M views. Different lead singer, but she is also really awesome.
Thank you, so much! This was lovely!
Tarja, the lead singer here, has classical training.
Tarja was Nightwish's first lead singer. They have had 3 and the current one is Floor Jansen.
You'll probably get a lot of requests to react to Ghost Love Score from Wacken 2013 with Floor, it is amazing, mind blowing performance!🔥🔥
I'll recommend another song from Nightwish. It is called Slaying the Dreamer and it's live from End of an Era. It is also with Tarja as the lead singer😊
You won't be disappointed in ANY Nightwish song or performance. Thay are amazing and they come from the country where I live (Finland)...
Hi Stacey, you're a breath of fresh air in the Reaction Video world. You're smart and savvy, you pick up the details, you're energetic, fun to watch and you get it right every time. It's showing, because you've more than quadrupled subscribers just in the few days since I decided to witness you're journey. For recommendations, Nightwish, Ghost Love Score is apparently the most reacted to song on UA-cam so you probably have to go there. At some point I would steer you back in history to 1969 to 1999. Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, Black Sabbath (Ozzy AND Dio), AC/DC, Disturbed, ZZ Top, Journey, Triumph, Deep Purple, Metallica, Van Halen, Queensryche and so many more are all bands who have popped out the eyeballs and dropped every chin, in every reaction video there is.
Wow what a sweet comment!! 🤍 Thank you! I was really nervous to start this channel since I really do not know much about music at all but everyone has been absolutely so pleasant! I have a list of reactions to do so I am going to be very busy for a very long time! Thank you for the support!!
She's beautiful, I bet 99% of subs are guys.
Hi Stacey, greetings from UK
That was a great reaction, thank you 😉
I will add my voice to others who will recommend the song "Ghost Love Score" from the Wacken 2013 concert. Wacken (pronounced Vah-ken) is a small town in Northern Germany who once every year in August host one of the biggest Metal festivals in the world. Nightwish headlined this festival in 2013 and the concert has gone down in history as one of the best ever!
"Ghost Love Score" from that concert is one of the three most reacted to songs in UA-cam history! 😁
Metal music has several sub-genres. The style that Nightwish play is called Symphonic Metal. They compose and record music with several world class orchestras and choirs, and use backing tracks and midi on the keyboard to help enrich their sound
Not only was this performance live, but Tarja actually had the flu during this concert.... I still can not believe how she was able to perform an entire concert with the flu, but she did it, like the metal godess she is!
Welcome to the fantastic world of symphonic metal, in which Nightwish is one of the absolute pioneers, but there are a lot of great bands nowadays, Within Temptation, Epica, Amberian Dawn, Xandria and Leves Eyes just to name a few
I have watched a couple of your reactions and you have definately got a new subscriber here!
She did…. Wow. Even more impressive!
Great reaction. You NEED "Ghost Love Score" by Nightwish in your life!!! The performance of Wacken 2013 is the most iconic. Greetings🤘😉👏😎!!!
And "Nightwish - Greatest show on earth"
@@andreasprucha1451 Tampere ofc
She will love Devil And The Deep Dark Ocean
2005 live version is much better than 2013 version imo
@@Dmitriy_Sobolev I think both versions (Tampere and Wembley) are great. Tampere is special at the beginning - Wembley at the end.
It might be a matter of taste which one someone preferes, but the is no "wrong" version.
Great reaction Stacey! You've just been introduced to one of the best Symphonic Metal bands out there. You have a heck of a journey ahead of you if you react to more Nightwish! Enjoy the experience! BTW, the band has gone through several changes since this performance.
I totally will react to more Nightwish! I loved this performance!
@@StaceyRPGReactswelcome to Nightwish!
@StaceyRPGReacts Ghost Love Score from Wacken 2013 you will absolutely love it
@@StaceyRPGReacts Hey Stacy, so this was with their 1st singer who left the band in 2005 ,Tarja,she was pre dominantly an operatic vocalist,their 2nd singer Anette from 2005 til 2012 was more popish vocals,then the one who is their current & final vocalist from late 2012 Floor Jansen who can literally sing in any style ,their masterpiece Ghost Love Score from Wacken 2013 is the most reacted to performance ever on YT ,in fact many vocal coach reactors have over 3Million views from a single reaction, I highly recommend you do a reaction to Ghost Love Score you will seriously be blown away,other examples of Floor's amazing vocal versatility : cheers :)
NIGHTWISH - Ghost Love Score (OFFICIAL LIVE) : Wacken 2013
*Floor Jansen & Henk Poort - Phantom Of The Opera | Beste Zangers 2019 :
Nightwish - How's The Heart Acoustic (Planet Rock acoustic session)Live 2020
(done in one take,no edits)
Alone - Heart (cover by Floor Jansen)2020
Floor Jansen sings Shallow for Emma Heesters Beste Zangers 2019
@@nicod1361 I had no idea this band had 3 singers😱 woooooow okay yes I will definitely get to Ghost Love Score soon🫶🏻 thank you for the insight! Super helpful!
She does indeed have what they call classical training. Not to the point where she could work as a classical opera singer .... the career of Nightwish took of when they were pretty young and, well, this combo worked pretty damn well as-is. Better than with a strictly pure classical sound.
Nightwish has had 3 singers over the decades. All unique, all pretty damn cool.
Andrew Lloyd Weber loved this version also. Oh no you asked for more Nightwish 🤣😮 everyone will come flooding in now with links to other live performances mostly with Floor their current singer, which is fine as she is is amazing as well. Any song from their Wacken 2013 concert is pretty epic...but I love the duets with Marco (the male vocalist here) such as Ghost River, Romanticide or Last Ride of the Day, as having two top tier singers in a band is so rare!
Welcome to Nightwish! As many others will likely say, I highly recommend checking out "Ghost Love Score", the live Wacken 2013 performance, for a perfect introduction to their current lead singer, Floor Jansen (the video you just saw was with their first singer, Tarja Turunen.) I think you will enjoy it!
Nightwish - The Poet And The Pendulum (Official Live), and Ghost Love Score (Wacken 2013).
Not only is this cover the best ever, but the finish of the song is simply amazing.
Nightwish - Ghost love score Wacken 2013!! U need this!
Hello Stacey, Nightwish Army Italian Division reporting for duty. First of all, I appreciated your spontaneous reaction. Here you saw and heard the version with the group's first singer, Tarja Turunen, now I recommend you see and hear the version with the current singer, Floor Jansen, recorded live at the end of last year in Amsterdam at the Ziggo Dome.. ..the last note of the song is something crazy. So welcome to the magical and wonderful world of symphonic metal and Nightwish
Did you notice YT tried to send her there at the end of the video? ;-) 7:37
🤩👍💥💯🎼
You just heard/saw a tiny glimpse of what they're capable on stage in live...
So there fore I kindly urge you to explore more of this magical band. 😉
Neat reaction mi lady and keep on rockin with.
Cheers from Finland.
🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙
Welcome to the magical world of Nightwish. This is a fantastic band, composed of a group of truly talented musicians who all play for the song, not to show off their own particular expertise. The result is the proverbial "whole being greater than the sum of its parts." You will find that each song is different, but has that wonderful Nightwish touch. And, you will also find that there isn't a bad song in the bunch. If you follow General Gabriel's list you will have the best performances for each song, but don't feel that you are constrained to follow that list in order. Go where your heart leads. I have just subscribed and will be following your journey with great interest.
well hello to you 🐕
I suggest you try "storytime", "ghost love score", "romanticide", "ever dream", "wish i had an angel", "ghost river", "amaranth", " son of myself", "dark chest of wonders" live from wacken 13 too
And also "want my tears back" and "dead boys poem" live from buenos aires
"The poet and the pendulum" and "your is an empty hope" live from wembley
"The greatest show on earth" live from tampere
Welcome to Nightwish, waiting for Ghost Love Score. Greetings from Colombia
Nightwish, Ghost love score. Wacken 2013. Floor Jansen will amaze you. The theater kid in you will totally geek out. ❤
Best version out there. great reaction thanks
This era of Nightwish was in my opinion pure magic and when they were at their very best because of Tarjas classically trained and unique voice, the combination gives me chills every time and does things to my emotions like no other, and I'm quite a stoic man. I'm glad you got to hear the original setup as your first Nightwish experience.
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!!!😀👍👍🤘
Hello, enjoyed your enthusiastic review. I highly recommend The Warning one of the best up and coming young artists in the industry. They're also performing in Wacken next year. The Warning is a hard rock/metal/punk/alt rock band from Mexico. They were child prodigies that have taken the world by storm having opened for GNR, MUSE, FooFighters, Hallestorm, Stone Temple Pilots etc. just to name a few.
You should def check out their music!
This band is a chest of wonders with no bottom, endless joy and epicness no matter what era of the band, no matter which lead singer. They are beyond this world.
If you want another rockstyle version of The Phantom of the Opera you ought to look up a guy called Tommy Johansson, he's done a fantastic rendition of this song.
EDIT: Also, if you want to hear the best Christmas song written in forever, you should listen to the band Sabaton and their song "Christmas Truce".
Others will chime in with more info than u can use (in a good way), but one piece of advice....once u get into NW, everyone is friendly and helpful, excepting Tarja vs Floor, that is a 3rd rail u don't want to touch. They are just different, both amazing. Some will want to tip them against each other, but they are actually friends
So yeah... Nightwish is probably the deepest rabbit hole on UA-cam, and if you follow the rabbit, like Alice did, you'll find yourself in a wonderful wonderland, full of magic. Tuomas, the keyboardist, founder, and main composer of the band, is a big fan of Disney (just like me), and he likes to put some Disney references here and there in some of Nightwish's songs, like the above mentioned Alice, and Peter Pan. You should check out his side projects, an album called The Life And Times of Scrooge McDuck, and a band called Auri, together with his wife, and Troy, another member of Nightwish. When you get to Ghost Love Score, the Wacken 2013 version, you will undoubtedly get what we Nightwish fans like to call a "Floorgasm" 😁 A little play on words, her name is Floor, and she is the third vocalist in Nightwish. What makes me a little sad though, is that noone seems to notice the "Tarjagasm" at 2:50 in this performance. Floor is amazing, both on stage, and off it, but Tarja, the first Nightwish vocalist, had it too.
There is a more recent Nightwish version of Phantom of the Opera, where Floor sings together with Henk Poort, who she first met in the dutch TV show Beste Zangers. Henk wanted to perform Phantom of the Opera with Nightwish, which they later did. He actually was the dutch Phantom, and if I understand it correctly, he was Andrew Lloyd Webber's favorite Phantom. If you want to dig a little side burrow in the rabbit hole, I can recommend watching the videos Floor recorded from her home during the pandemic, where she lets us into her home, and shows another reason why she is so loved, she's not just a pretty voice. Great first reaction to Nightwish, I am looking forward to more 😊
I like Nightwish and saw them back when Tarja was with them. I like Floor as well, they've continually improved. You might be interested in The Warning, a band of three sisters from Mexico. They are about to explode in the rock world. If you look at anything from the Teatro Metropolitan show (on their UA-cam channel you won't be disappointed.
This rendition of Phantom slaps so hard. I hope you hop on the Nightwish train as I did for the first time some 10 of 11 months ago. It is a wild journey that spans decades and is just full of talent.
Clicked on your Jinjer reaction, then noticed you had a Nightwish reaction. Now you are hooked and I can't wait til you react to more NW! And can't wait for you to be introduced to Floor!
If you like theater with a rock/metal edge and rock operas you definitely came to the right place. The whole of symphonic metal is very theatrical per se, and then there's stuff like Ayreon and Avantasia doing actual rock operas with multiple singers/characters, etc. The rabbit hole goes deep :)
So glad I came across this Sta cey. Nightwish are theatre. This version was some years ago - if you like phantom so much - I suggest you look at Nightwish's latest version (a couple of years ago) with the present lead singer Floor Jansen accompanied by Henk Poorte - who was the Dutch phantom for many years. They performed it on a Dutch TV show too called 'Beste Zangers'. But there's so much more to Nightwish - definitely Ghost Love Score at Wacken Festival 2013 first!! Cinematic Metal at it's best!!😊
Love your reactions! Give Arch enemy - Deciever, deciever a shot, you'll most probably love it
What a great and high quality reaction. Very refreshing compared with many other lately published crapy reaction videos from "Never-heard-of-Nightwish" pretenders, who just want to get their new channel a jump start with the well known huge Nighwish fan base.
Would love to see more of you reacting to Nightwish and the circle around them like Epica, Sabaton and Ayreon.
Cheers from Germany
Saw them last year with the current singer Floor. After nightwish comes epica
2:54 The blond having an eargasm gets me everytime. I'm right with you. I love this version of the Phantom.
"You need to react to the Ghost Love Score performance at the same concert with Tarja on vocals. You're going to have a genuine experience with the Metal Opera concert, and the song itself sounds like a complete show!"
Might not be the most creative suggestion, but I would love to seeyou react to the same band, same song, different singers: The version of Nightwish with Floor Jansen and Henk Poort.
Just discovered Nightwish myself this summer. Can't stop listening. I'm looking forward to your reactions to Nightwish at Wacken 2013 !!
Well Gabriel has beaten me to it -- again!!! Ha Ha! Obviously lots of info to dig into. However, I could mention one or two points that are most important. The band had three singers: Tarja, Anette Olson, and Floor Jansen (current). Everyone kind of has their favorites. Much of the popularity of the band now revolves around the singing of Floor. But you are off to a good start by beginning with their original singer. It can lead into a very interesting subsequent video: you see, Floor recorded a VERY FAMOUS version of "Phantom" as part of a Dutch singing show called "Beste Zangers". I will try and leave the link in the "Reply" section below (as a notorious poster UA-cam cancels any links I leave in the main comment. I believe Gabriel has the same problem). If you wanted, you could then follow that video with one of Nightwish and Floor's most popular songs, "Ever Dream", from the Wacken concert of 2013 (link below), as a great intro to both Floor, and the current (since 2013) rendition of Nightwish.
Second, the actual MOST POPULAR song and video of them all is "Ghost Love Score", from Wacken. The only problem here (perhaps someone already warned you?), is that EVERYBODY does Ghost Love Score. It's actually the most reacted to of all music videos with over 1,300 UA-cam posted reaction videos on it. So perhaps better to start a little of the beaten track? PLUS, one of Nightwish's most beloved songs, "The Poet and the Pendulum", is about the breakup of the band with Tarja, and Tuomas (leader and keyboardist) feelings of depression and suicide after this happened, which he then encapsulated in this song. Very famous, but Nightwish Army fans "freak out" if the reviewer didn't do any research on the fact beforehand. By watching Tarja's video first, you have already got half way there! ☺🤗
Sorry, my "Reply" was repeatedly deleted, so I have posted it under your "Community" tab. Good luck! Hope you can get to it!
Gabriel beats EVERYONE like Jukka beats a Drum...
First time here because of the thumbnail, and I’m so glad that your introduction to nightwish is with Tarja, what a great reaction! Stick to tarja if you like Nightwish, and eventually you’ll get to what everyone loves now which is Floor’s era. Songs like Crownless and Gethesmane are great gems with tarja as a performer and nightwish in their golden era. Cheers! Had to subscribe after this :)
There’s no needs to get to floor era , simply not necessary!!! Because when you have the goddess you don’t need the princess !!!
Yes, she is a classically trained lyrical soprano. Please react to her new single, Jingle Bells from her album Dark Christmas she just released. It is hauntingly beautiful.
Tarja is classically trained❣not directly opera so her technique isn't flawless but she is amazing!! :)
All of them - apart from the male singer (Marko) - went to the same school as teenagers :)
Her operatic technique is not correct ??? Are you nuts!!!😂😂😂 you’re talking bullsh!!
@@Alysonmarie-2399 I said "not flawless", and I'm sure Tarja will be the first who would agree with that. She is down-to-earth like that. She didn't have opera training, she studied Lied singing, which is close to opera but not quite. I think she herself said to be able to sing an actual opera she'd need at least a year of very intense training. It was in an interview after the Nightwish split. It doesn't take away from her abilities though!! As I said, she is amazing in what she does and I love her. If she'd wanted to become an opera singer, I'm sure she would've done great with it. But I'm glad she dedicated herself to both classical AND rock
Welcome to the wonderful world of Nightwish and Symphonic Metal! There is a bit of an in joke with fans regarding professional voice coaches and opera singers who react to this song, and it goes something like "I came for Tarja....I stayed for Marco!" Great reaction, loved your enthusiasm and how much you embraced a new genre of music playing with a song you clearly know and love. Andrew Lloyd Webber also gives this version a huge thumbs up!
Nightwish Army Germany checked in.
I have seen our General already arrived so all shall be sorted for you now.
Subbed to see your future deep dive down the Rabbit Hole called Nightwish.
Cant wait to see you doing a reaction to "Ghost Love Score" from Wacken 2013. You will love it.
There you will see Queen Floor for the first time...
Subbed to see that - make it happen please.
What Gabriel said, below! Marko is such a beastly phantom! Tarja is Tarja - an entity all her own! Yep, Aussie back again!
Tarja indeed is a trained opera singer who has performed operas from before she joined Nightwish to this day, while also being an absolute metal queen.
Waooo the best comment!! Love it
Not opera...lied
Welcome to Nightwish Symphonic Metal! 🤘🎸
if you really want hard dark spell-binding Tarja (and Marko too) with Nightwish:
(even some rocking on invisible guitar, head windmills, and etc theatrics too)
(remember, the concerts/albums/covers must be BEFORE 2006, for Tarja's performances)
(not ranked, just listed)
1. Slaying the Dreamer
2. Planet Hell
3. Wishmaster
4. Kinslayer
5. Ghost Love Score
6. The Siren
7. End of All Hope
8. Dead to the World
9. 10th Man Down
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Nightwish's 3 singers:
1. Tarja (original singer): 1995 to 2005
2. Annette: 2006 to 2012
3. Floor (current singer): 2013 to 2020+
everyone knows Floor, she's super popular with everyone, especially right now, and is a really good singer, having a huge variety of singing capability (pop, classical/opera, belting, growling/raspy), able to sing nightwish's old songs that were for Tarja's classical/opera singing, as well as new songs for her own variety/range of singing abilities
Unfortunately for Annette, she's a pop/rock singer, and a very good singer too, but her pop/rock singing just didn't go that well with nightwish's music, which was made for Tarja's dark classical/opera singing. So, usually, she gets left out.
so, it comes down to "Targasm” (Tarja) vs “Floorgasm” (Floor) in terms of the Nightwish singers in who you like most, if you like classical/opera singing better, Tarja is better at it, but that's all she does back when with nightwish, as nightwish was created for tarja's unique dark operatic singing/voice, (now with her own band, or solo, she does a greater range of singing), but she does it really well, she's really got a beautiful voice, if you like more pop singing, belting and growling/raspy, with or without classical/opera singing, than you like Floor better
I knew nightwish from the early 2000s, so Nightwish will always be with Tarja, but Nightwish with Floor is really good too, but it's Tarja, who's my favorite singer with nightwish
(many others will help you out with Floor's songs, so I'll just stick to Tarja's songs here)
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if you do like Tarja with nightwish, here's some good ones:
(just make sure the song performances are before 2006, else it's not tarja who is singing)
(NOT ranked, just listed)
1. End of an Era (her last concert with nightwish, hard to find good quality and the entire concert, as it gets taken down)
2. Phantom of the Opera (her duet with Marco, really good, both of them together, this song was actually used in the Phantom of the Opera remake movie in 2004)
3. Wishmaster
4. Planet Hell (marco sings in this song as well)
5. End of All Hope
6. Dead Boy's Poem
7. Nemo (watch the official music video and also her live performance of it)
8. Kinslayer
9. she is my sin
10. wish I had an angel
11. slaying the dreamer
12. the siren
13. dead to the world
14. 10th man down
15. walking in the air
16. ghost love score
17. dark chest of wonders
18. bless the child
and many more too
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this is about the 'phantom of the opera' with tarja nightwish, but it applies to tarja for all other NW songs too:
Tarja has her own stage performance/presence, but the focus is on the entire band (much more respectful), unlike with floor, where the focus is almost entirely on her, and also, Phantom of the Opera isn't about that much showmanship, so you're not seeing more of Tarja's performance/presence (love how the camera work and Tarja worked together, with her ducking down, seeing Marcus as he delivered his singing, and then Tarja stands back up, seeing her face back in the camera as Marco's part ends and hers begins again, Tarja is really such a team player, as she could have had all the focus upon herself, like Floor gets, but instead she chooses to give the entire band the respect and focus that they too deserve, it's not all about Tarja, like it is with Floor, despite how good Tarja is and thus how she could be the entire focus with nightwish, as is Floor with nightwish)
there's other songs, where Tarja was way way way more stage performance/presence/showmanship, including hair windmills, rocking an invisible guitar along with empuu rocking his guitar, along with her doing her squatting too as she sings and taps her foot/leg to it, as she's swinging those hips too, along with her getting the crowd involved as well too, and etc stuff, you got to watch way more songs, to really see her amazing stage presence/performance and showmanship, as Phantom of the Opera is likely the one song with the least of that stuff, due to the nature of the song itself, being about their singing (contrasting and then cacophonous harmonous duet, nothing can compete with Tarja and Marco voices duet'ing), though Marco and Tarja had a bit of showmanship and fun snuck into it, with Marco pointing to his face and Tarja's facial expression reactions, while both song their parts
Greetings, Stacey. And welcome to Nightwish and symphonic metal.
I would normally recommend reactors to watch the version by Floor Jansen and Henk Poort immediately after seeing this.
But since this is actually your first Nightwish video, I'm going to go with the comments on this one.
"Ghost Love Score" only to make sure your journey is on the right path and you get the full experience out of it.
Besides, it's better to get to know Floor Jansen this way first so that you familiarize yourself with her and the band before going for her solo performances.
The version you're looking for is "Live at Wacken 2013".
And please look for the videos uploaded by Nightwish or Nuclear Blast Records for best quality.
The Nightwish Army is very passionate about their band, so I have to mention a few things first. Try not to talk over the video especially the singer.
As an advice, pause the video if needed, and take it back 5 or 10 secs before you continue.
Some people will get triggered if they hear you compare Floor to Amy Lee. 8 out of 10 people who watch that video make that comparison and some just don't know how else to process that. lol
Please ask questions, the Army will be more than happy to answer.
If you really enjoyed this, you're going to love the 2013 to now Era with singer Floor Jansen.
She is from the Netherlands and the band hails from Kitee, Finland.
The band started with 5 members but in 2009, added the talents of a multi instrumentalist from the UK, Troy Donockley.
At the time he appeared on their studio albums as a guest musician and even toured with them.
As luck would have it Floor and Troy both became permanent members in June 2013.
I know this is a lot to take in after your first video, but it'll be worth it.
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Hello Stace.
One thing you may notice is the extensive collaborations between various band members in the European Metal/Prog scene.
If you use some of those collaborative 'hubs' as a jump-off point, you will introduce yourself to an incredible wide variety of bands and musicians... the horizons are very broad.
The band Nightwish has had 3 female lead singers : Tarja (the singer in this version of Phantom) left in 2005, followed by Annette Olzen who left in early 2012. The current singer is Floor Jansen, and she is impossibly talented... just beyond stunning. She actually HAS 'sung the phonebook' and made it interesting (but don't bother looking for that video at this point.... there's 50 or so titles to watch before you go there, lol.
To really get the full effect of Nightwish and many of the other European bands, setting aside preconceived notions of song construction and simple melodic patterns (repeating over and over) can be set aside... yes, you may find a verse/chorus/verse pattern here and there, but often there is much more.
I don't think you will be one to 'sit back and enjoy' the band... you look like you get fully engaged.
You will have a blast. (my prediction... not a commandment)
Oh, and make room for some entirely new songlists... you might not go back to whatever you've been listening to in the past.
I know I haven't.
- - Blind Doc Jones :
Nightwish Medical Tent Tooth Repositioner, head-bang-collision triage specialist, and Mosh Pit Search and Rescue team member.
New subscriber here for your nightwish journey. Have fun along the way, you will be amazed. I know I have been. And indeed. Ghost Love Score from wacken 2013 is the best intro to Nigtwish.
Marko Hietala is no Antonio Banderas ;-) For me, this version is closer to the original novel. The original Phantom is ruthless and a murderer and a rock singer fits that bill better than an opera singer. There is another version of the song, closer to the musical original, with an opera singer as the Phantom. The current singer had promised him a joint performance and you saw it on the card at the end of the video:
Nightwish - The Phantom Of The Opera (ft. Henk Poort) (LIVE)
In the early 2000s, Nightwish, together with Within Temptation, established symphonic metal as a subgenre and Tarja established opera singing in metal.
This is the first singer, Tarja Turunen. Good chemistry is deceptive. Due to artistic and private differences, she was fired immediately after this concert. That's why the live album is called "End of an Era". Tarja has also remained successful solo:
Tarja Shadow Play live Circus Life version
If you follow Gabriel's list you will come to Ghost love Score
at. It is the song with the most reaction videos on UA-cam.
Marko is already the band's second bassist and was already a well-known singer. Unfortunately he left the band in 2021 due to depression, but is currently touring solo. The current video, as guest singer:
EXIT EDEN - Run! feat. Marko Hietala (Official Video) | Napalm Records
Nightwish's second singer Anette Olzen lost in the duel Tarja against Floor. Her jazzy pop voice didn't suit Nightwish and she was fired from an ongoing tour two days before the next concert. Only works really well for a few songs:
Nightwish - Slow Love Slow live Montreux Jazz Festival 2012 HQ
She is still active too, but is still just the ex-Nightwish singer:
The Dark Element - "Songs The Night Sings"
Other Symphonics:
Within Temptation - Bleed Out (official music video)
VISIONS OF ATLANTIS - Pirates Will Return (Official Live Video) | Napalm Records
Blackbriar - Mortal Remains (Official Music Video)
Nightwish band is from Finland. Tuomas Holopainen songwriter composer. song Tarja Turunen & Marko Hietala. and Emppu & Jukka.
Great reaction! Also you can check Sabaton... They are crazy good on war telling stories in metal...! And the most amazing song live of Sabaton is: en livstid i krig...
Tarja Turunen ❤❤❤
one and only queen
Thank you for your reaction, Stacey. I defy anyone to find a better version of the Phantom than this one. As you said, flawless. There are so many comments about whether it was Tarja or Marko that really made this version so amazing. Both were brilliant but in reality, it is the combination of the two of the them together that makes it so special. There are many special moments of Tarja era Nightwish, as already mentioned. Tarja was sacked after the concert and started her own solo career, which is also amazing and really showcases just how brilliant she is. A couple of examples that you must try out are her song Innocence live, ua-cam.com/video/Lq-genEQNLA/v-deo.html and her cover of the Muse song, Supremacy, live ua-cam.com/video/e5zEb5xFlIE/v-deo.html. Give them a go. You won't be disappointed.
Nice reaction. I cant wait for you to open more of this amazing chest of wonders 🤘😆🤘
Ghost love score with Floor❤
hey... there is a whole genre called Symphonic Metal... and bands like Nightwish, Epica, Within Temptation, etc... are really worth checking out if You liked this ;o)
Great reaction, Stacey. I see the Nightwish Army has arrived. Keep reacting to NW and we’ll keep supporting you!
the male singer (Bassist) is Marko Hietala he is a brilliant singer he has his own bands also as Solo. Tarot and a "superband" called Northern Kings they do cover songs. his Tribute to Pink Floyd's HIGH HOPES with Nightwish is just :O
The band has had 3 vocalists, the first is "taja", and with a more operatic voice, the second is "anette" which made my favorite albums from this band, and the third is "FLOOR", which is my favorite vocalist who has had the band.
curious fact, that was the last "tarja" concert with the band
if theater style epic metal/rock like this is your thing, Ayreon is a befriended band of Nightwish/Epica/Kamelot etc. and has great live concert videos where this is even getting more Musical vibes, f.e. "Everybody dies" or "Intergalactic Space Crusaders".
Bonus: Devin Townsend Band and Anneke van Giersbergen with "Grace".
Love your reaction and comments !! What a great performance to a great song !! Andrew Lloyd Webber confessed this was his favorite rendition of this song !! I've watched 100's of reactions to this song and your reaction is one of my FAVS. You are beautiful too !! Have a great Christmas.
Nightwish were Floorless at this point, you are correct. 😂
You have opened up a very deep rabbit hole. No longer in Kansas, Toto 😊😊
Welcome to the world of Nightwish.
Now you should do the versions with Floor on Beste Zangers and Nightwish's live version with Hank Poort.
Absolutely check out their performance of "Romanticide" next! Marco and Floor shine bright!
Tarja is just so so good, she had Marko are quite the brilliant duo. They both parted ways with Nightwish but started to tour together this year which is exciting. Like old times :)
I saw Antonio's version. HE WAS AMAZING. Michael Crawford, Antonio, then Robert Guillaume. He played Benson on TV.
I'm a huge Nightwish fan, and they do this justice in more ways than one. INCREDIBLE! Marco's vibrato is perfect for the Opera metal sound.
Thank you for reacting to best version of Phantom of the opera ever!
That's Tarja Turunen, she is solo now. You should see her Dark Christmas videos.
Try Beste Zangers, they did Phantom with Floor and Henk Poort(who has done Phantom himself before), and it is awesome.
Just a suggestion; if you enjoy the fusion of rock and orchestral music, allow me to suggest ‘Two Steps From Hell’. You’ve prolly already heard their music and didn’t realize it. They primarily write music for movie and video game trailers, and their music has been featured in trailers for several Harry Potter movies, the Chris Pine Star Trek reboot, Indiana Jones, No Country For Old Men, and many others. Their music is more orchestra-focused than rock-oriented, so it may not be exactly to your taste. But it’s extremely theatrical (movie trailers, duh) and because trailers usually only run 2-3 minutes, their compositions are typically a brief emotional roller-coaster ride. Each one is a musical journey. Their slogan is “Music makes you braver”, and after listening to pretty much any of their compositions, you really feel like you could run through a wall, and take on a dragon.
Excellent choices would be “Dragonwing”, “Flight of the Silverbird”, “To Glory”, or a longer love song-esque called “Soñera”. A few final notes, TSFH isn’t a band, it’s a music production company, comprised of two composers. And while most of their music is instrumental (again, movie trailers) when they compose for themselves, their lyrics can be English, Latin, Norwegian (one gentleman is from Norway) or who knows what. I think you might enjoy their work.
Floor Jansen is an incredible vocalist with a 3+ octave range and she can sing in a classical style or in a grungy, metal style and Henk Poort is the bassist singing with her. Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Finland. You were having too much fun watching this video. 😂😂✌️
Merci de continuer avec mon groupe préféré, très bonne réaction de votre part et excellente analyse. Avec un peu ( beaucoup ) de retard l'armée NIGHTWISH de France est heureuse de vous compter parmi nous désormais et d'être heureuse de votre écoute au service du métal symphonique. Encore plus d'écoute SVP, fiez vous à la liste de Gabriel pour avoir le meilleur du groupe mais ce n'est pas une obligation juste un sage conseil pour avoir le meilleur du groupe. Le terrier est tellement profond, bonne chance a sa découverte, pour ma part, je n'ai pas touché le fond encore et j'ai l'impression que celà n'arrivera jamais. Encore du NIGHTWISH et merci d'avance, vous ne serez jamais déçu, autre chose à savoir que la dernière chanson écoutée deviendra aussitôt votre préféré, vous aurez l'occasion de vous en rendre compte. A bientôt et paix sur vous mon ami .....
Hello StacyRPG 👋 If you love The Phantom of the Opera you should also listen to the Floor Version on "Best Zangers" 👍
Just because of this reaction you get a like and subscribe because this is peak nightwish and how far did Marco push his voice to get into that high range!!! It s insane
The star of the version is Marko Hietala. He also has a very good live solo "The Islander".
If you want a suggestions for more Nightwish: Shoemaker, Story time, The Greatest Show on Earth, Imaginaerum, Ghost Love Song, & The Poet and The Pendulum.
I saw it on Broadway, amazing show!!!
Another one who surely will go further down the Nightwish path!
There is a Broadway version of Green Day's album American Idiot and there is a show where Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day's singer) actually joins the musical on Broadway to sing the song St. Jimmy. Amazing video and I think you would enjoy that one:)
Adorable and nice reation and insta like for new stuff. Well about now you have seen the Nightwish army.
This is Webbers favorite. :D
Singer Tarja Turunen was kicked from the band at that night.
Hi there. As most of the other comments agree Nightwish are great but there's another who really is specialised in rock opera: Ayreon. Why not got to the source (wink wink) and try "Everybody dies" from the Ayreon Universe show. This concert was a best-of but he did 2 others wich are way closer to the albums which contain a complete story. "The theatre equation" and "Electric Castle live". Maybe give some of them a try, if you ever get free time again since Gabriel's list for Nightwish is absolutely worth it.
Get ready for the Nightwish army to invade!!!
If you'd like to hear Marco in a very different style, try "The Islander" from Nightwish's concert in Tampere.
Floor does an amazing version of this with Henke Port in Beste Zangers if you want to check it out, it is here on youtube
Oh girl!! You will be overwhelmed with the comments and versions and singers! Be ready 😵💫🤣❣️
IMO this is the best phantom of the opera version! I would suggest Ghost Love score both versions with Tarja and Floor!
The siren with Tarja
Shoemaker with Floor
Slaying the dreamer w Tarja
Stacey you should check out some of the really coolest things about David Gilmour. he auctioned off 126 of his guitars as Christie's for a record breaking 21.6 million which was all donated to non profit organizations such as client earth. his guitar famously known as the "black strat" went from $250,000 opening bid to final of 3.6million by the owner of the Baltimore colts. David also has several incredible solo albums including " rattle that lock" and "on an island" PF album dark side of the moon " is the 2nd highest selling album of all time (#1 was bing Crosby white christmas)for any music genre and was on the billboard charts for 713 straight weeks (2nd longest run ever)
Welcome to the Nightwish rabbit hole! Enjoy the journey!
Hello Stacey, you should listen to "Ghost Love Score" live from Wacken 2013 with the phanomenal dutch singer Floor Jansen. One of the best songs ever!
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We all need a Viking Phantom in our lives 😎
Hi there great reaction
Check out Gabriel's list and you're in for a long journey down the rabbithole of NW
Greetings from Sweden
OMG!! I LOVE TARJA'S VOICE ❤❤❤
We have so many talented musicians here in Finland.