Opera Singer REACTS to Floor Jansen "O Mio Babbino Caro"

[@nickhiggsthesinger]

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[@WardDorrity]

It has often been said that most singers sing what they can. Floor sings whatever she wants.

[@lenteberkhout1829]

Like the Dutch Yellow Pages: kzbin.infogmjIHx10g1U?si=azdxF6kvX13RNFlc

[@FERNANDOAUGUSTO-fv1ck]

She does sings what she wants ......very well

[@OLGARIOS-k8o]

What is really amazing for me is that Floor did a very decent job singing this aria for someone who only had one year of opera training. She always says she is not an opera singer...she is a rock singer and her operatic voice is one of the things she can use when she thinks fits to the song.

[@Donna-C]

This.

[@jeffk1482]

Exactly this!

[@n5iln]

Floor Jansen can sing the phone book and make it sound good. We know because she's done it, and there's video proof.

[@audreytryba2575]

I saw it it was funny, the company got a good commercial that way😁

[@okiejohn3925]

@@audreytryba2575 Who else can make a pest exterminator's ad sound so good?

[@williamadkins2170]

Floor's vocal training is 4 yrs. Dutch rock academy , 1 yr. Classical & 1 yr. musical theater.

[@Kristina-jf4hd]

A day ago I watched The Charismatic Voice interview Floor (it was very long). Floor was incredibly down to earth, kind, and seems to just “go with the flow” as you mentioned in your reaction. She’s the type of person I’d be honored to have as a close friend even if she wasn’t famous.

[@iainmackie6421]

Absolutely the other way round. Floor was a metal singer first and then learned a bit of classical singing. Floor's classical training is way overstated - she did one year of musical theatre and opera during her studies. All of the rest is just her hard work and practice. The woman is just astonishing!

[@paigefoster375]

Floor has classical training, as you can tell. Their are several opera singers who have done reactions to her, particularly Elizabeth Zhaaroff (The Charismatic Voice). She did an interview with Floor, who said that she approaches a song first from the perspective of what she'll be communicating, including characterization and particularly emotion. That's particularly important in opera, which is mostly sung in the language in which the original was written. Most audiences (at least here in the US) don't speak them and often don't know the actual lyrics, so a lot of the meaning is expressed through the delivery. Floor did a fantastic job of that with this performance.

[@christinaalgate4899]

Elizabeth is also a Opera singer. There's another reactor that is also a opera singer and her name is Maggie.

[@hombrez74]

Floor has several chapters in her channel with singing masterclasses. And yes, as well as being extremely talented, she's very lovely, sweet and humble.

[@karinjanssen8987]

Epica ft Floor Sabat matar dolorosa! Two Dutch friends singing beautifully

[@Faeroy22]

I concur

[@erickvermeulen9734]

I concur

[@ecbftl]

I concur, orchestra backing only, Floor sings the Alto part of this Latin classical duet. Love her lower register. Sheet music on stage for the singers, Floor watches and afterwards acknowledged the conductor with a curtsie, he bows in response.

[@Roller4x4]

Nice Step to Epica.....😊

[@hermenw.huiskamp8555]

I concur

[@ronaldderooij1774]

Your comment on her attitude was spot on. I also think that Floor considers the live audience "her" audience for the time it takes her to perform. She also is famed by her (hired) band to be a perfectionist with absolute hearing, but a feast to work with as she is patient to wait for perfection, and always creates a warm, family like atmosphere around her. And above all, she will ALWAYS be prepared to perfection. She will have thoroughly thought over every note and every move she makes during her performances.

[@fnglert]

"How can a metal singer sing opera?" - like this.

[@dolfvink7416]

I always love your reactions on Nightwish and Floor. Floor started singing in a metalband (After Forever) when she was only 16 years old. After 2 years of experimenting with her voice, The Rock Academy in Tilburg (NL) started (1999) and to get admitted to the study, she (like others) auditionned with her band. In Rock Academy, she got in contact with a singing teacher from the conservatory (Edward Hoepelman) and after she finished Rock Academy (4 years), she studied 2 years in Conservatory in classical singing and musical theatre. So first it was Rock/Metal and then Classical. As a singing teacher herself she, later also learned how to grunt in a healthy way. Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@Tarkus_]

People have suggested the Floor could be an opera singer, but she has said that she's not a fan of opera at all, so performances like this are pretty rare. She's perfectly happy being a metal singer who occasionally scratches the surface of classical singing.

[@TheRealRedAce]

And importantly, she does it with feeling. in 2013 she'd been singing metal for many years. She first fronted a metal band at age 16.

[@DANIEL-nf5nb]

Hi Nick, great reaction and you know what is most valuable in everything you said, is that Floor seems to be a very nice and humble person and yes she really is a wonderful and truly humble human being.

[@jeffk1482]

For somebody pretty new to The Goddess, you established her personality type very quickly and accurately. Aside from that voice and Valkyrie-like stature/ build, it’s what we love about her. She is all those things, and then some. It’s why my personal name for her is simply She Who Is.

[@Donna-C]

Floor completed 1 year of opera as a part of her vocal training. She is the first to admit that she is not an “opera singer”. Floor does have the vocal versatility, passion, empathy to bring the story & music to life!

[@jbird4478]

She isn't a trained classical singer that transformed to metal. She has been a metal singer since the age of 16, and got classical training to become a better metal singer. I've seen her live before that and she was already amazing. I think the earliest professional video of her singing was in 2002 on Dutch television. As you can see, it's metal with a strong classical influence. I think you would love it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYXQfHuhht1na7c

[@bartb217]

The best part about Floor is: Live she sounds even better and even more impressive. Recodings don't do her justice.

[@Syriand]

She is above and beyond all we can wish to listen.

[@FrozenRose816]

Floor talked in depth about how she developed her voice in her interview with the Charismatic Voice. She said that she found there was extensive knowledge of how to sing classical and opera, but very little about how to transition to pop, metal and other contemporary styles. I can't remember off the top of my head the course she took in rock/metal singing, but she did say that helped her a lot and that there should be more of it. She herself taught singing, including for harsh/growl vocals.

[@monicacarolina6480]

Floor studied opera and theatre extensively at the conservatory at Tilburg, Netherlands. Together with her BFF Simone from the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica. They sound great together in Sancta Terra by Epica with orchestra and Staba matar dolorosa❤ She still sings arias at home, her husband always jokes that he found a special opera/metal singer who drinks a whiskey with him now and then and smoke a cigar together😂 Ofcourse only at occasions.

[@AlldaylongRock]

Literally wife material 😍

[@dazjackson1972]

A couple of those guys in the audience looked really happy when Floor walked into the studio. I'd have been grinning too if I was lucky enough to be there.

[@124Spider5]

Something that you should know about FLOOR JANSEN. She started singing in a symphonic metal band at just 16 years old. After Forever (1995-2009). Then she created a new Progressive Metal band, ReVamp (2009-2016). In 2018 she released a personal Hard Rock project (Northward). In 2012, she was invited by Nightwish to finish their world tour, after the band's second female singer (Annete Olzon) left. In 2013 she became Nightwish's full time lead Vocalist. She is a singing teacher. She sings in Dutch, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Italian and Latin. She sings Heavy Metal, THrash Metal, Pop, Rock, Symphonic Metal, Aria and Opera. She even sang rap. In March 2023 she launched her first Pop solo album "Paragon". THE BEST SINGER TODAY IN THE WHOLE WORLD.

[@DaveCampervan]

So excited for the next chapter in your Floor Jansen journey of discovery - Floorgasms incoming!

[@jamielynnpizzitola2559]

You should check out her REALLY early stuff from After Forever. I love Monolith of Doubt, it is still on heavy rotation in my playlists

[@BigzampanoXXL]

I have seen many reactions. yours are one of the very best. thank you.

[@pietkeizer5279]

Hi Nick. A live conversation with Floor about singing would be great. 😊 Sent her a message.

[@ari-etta]

I bet she would do it as well

[@KidNeyCORE]

9:50 wow, that is Ton Koopman, must be such a good feeling to have musicians of that caliber admire and enjoy you.

[@davinki2885]

Have you listened to her growling yet? 'Yours is an empty hope'.

[@bennybuffylove]

Growling is overrated. ReVamp - Disdain Live at Graspop (2010) is the only song you HAVE to listen to. Let the Jinjer band with Tatiana do all the dog stuff. Nothing my 5 year old granddaughter can't do. I bet Nick here could do it easily.

[@yvonnevanwaegeningh-tiggel4577]

@@bennybuffylove I'd like to add a bit of info to that if I may... because many people seem to think that anyone can growl... and most of those who start like that lose their voice after a while because they are not doing it the correct way. There's more technique behind it than you'd think at first glance. Maybe check out the interviews that Elizabeth Zharoff from The Charismatic Voice has done with Will Ramos from Lorna Shore, who does a lot of growling and screaming. They are even doing official research right now, and several singers, including Tatiana from Jinjer are taking part in that. The goal is to find out more about the technique they use and how they do it without harming (or even ruining) their voice. Very interesting subject 🙂

[@bennybuffylove]

@@yvonnevanwaegeningh-tiggel4577 Ok, thx. But I really don't care about the growling aspect in music. It does nothing for me.

[@Cherlindrea99]

Whatever Floor is singing, she is always dedicated to tell the story of the song. She went to the conservatory to learn how to properly use her voice, her body, her posture to project the emotions connected to the story of a musical piece. You don't have to understand Italian to hear the desperate girl she's representing in this aria, being in love for the first time, thinking she can't live if it is without her lover. Floor only uses technique to be able to tell the story just right. Not because others find some technique is appropriate. This is what I love so much about Floor Jansen.

[@AlldaylongRock]

In her Tea Time with Elizabeth Zharoff, she said something like: "Technique is just a tool. I want to tell a story while singing and will use whatever technique best fits that story and feelings" That's why she has went to cross frontiers of singing, from classical to growling. It's just a bunch of tools.

[@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614]

You should know by now that the goosebumps you get when hearing Floor singing are called Floorgasms. The best Floorgasms come with a watery feeling in the eyes. There is a YT reaction around (can't find it) where 4 singers are compared singing this song: 2 professional opera singers, Tarja (first NW singer) and Floor. The 2 pro singers were technically the best but emotionless. Tarja was great, but for Floor I would run to the gate to catch her.

[@32a34a]

When you were talking about opera singers and how they have to project etc etc the first person I thought of was Elizabeth Zharoff aka TCV singing Martern aller arten. You can see in that performance Elizabeth is really projecting and you can see she is working hard at this performance.

[@WNYretiree]

Lots of good comments here talking about Floor, her talent and her ability to communicate emotion and I agree with them all. To me, one of the most engaging things is her ability to convey emotion. She brings you into the emotional content of the song, but doesn't overdo it. The result is you believe that she is feeling what she sings, not just carefully planning out each note for the greatest emotional impact, which can appear almost programed and not real.

[@annmariemills1554]

Floor recently had "Tea Time" with Elizabeth from The Charismatic Voice. I highly recommend watching😊Both Floor and Elizabeth are so much fun and it was nice to hear behind the scenes and how she started, etc. Thanks for this reaction 🤘😎💕

[@billattercliffe8655]

To contrast this performance, check out Floor with her band ReVamp, performing either "Disdain" at Graspop or "Wildcard" at Bloodstock. Use the live performances as there are some guest singers on the album versions. These are all out metal performances that are very different from Nightwish gigs.

[@ToTheWolves]

She started with NW October 2012.

[@VINTAGEO]

I discovered Floor and Nightwish about 2 months ago and I cannot stop listening to this amazing beautiful gift to humanity! Credit to the band as they perform flawlessly, even live! Floor is Phenomenal, FULL STOP!

[@abihagar]

We've all been there at some point, and it just keeps going on and on. Have fun.🤘

[@youaremysecretstream]

She had one year musical theater and one year opera I guess in between 2004-2006. After that she only trained by herself/ with her students and with her bands. I suggest young Floor with her band After Forever singing Dreamflight live at Progpower US 2007. A progmetal song with an incredible solo of Floor inbetween. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWSQkHlvpderaqssi=Lu1DuzrdWD3K8EDo With her band Revamp (2 albums 2010-2013) she constantly switched between clean singing, grid and growls and opera within a song! Mostly live. I highly suggest Disdain kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3-2l2lqgp6od5Isi=u1oU-2aNjUiy_VPW live at Graspop 2010. And Precibus 2013 ( live video/album audio) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpalpnaDmbyUjbcsi=83EGfeT9ivSJXVW9 In 2011/2012 she had a long horrible burnout and lost a lot of her Power. At the end of this time she was asked by Nightwish, still scared if she can pull it off.

[@hombrez74]

I could mention dozens of video suggestions here, such as her performances at BestZangers, Wacken 2013, Buenos Aires live tour (Decades), Tempera Live tour, early After Forever and Revamp live. I like Floor so much that it's hard to say anything less about her.

[@NickBR57]

@nickhiggsthesinger Looking forward to this. It happens that I prefer my classical music not "rock-ised" but there's no doubt in my mind that Floor could sing in a true classical arrangement or orchestration.

[@Dutchman626]

Please, have a look at Epica, together with Floor Jansen, Stabat Mater Dolorosa or Sancta Terra

[@Zerocool-kb4ej]

you've probably seen the whole performance by now.. and the thing i enjoy the most is the part when they introduce Floor , and they show a part of "Ghost love score" from Wacken...the discust on some of the faces in the audience...it's like they dissaprove her... and then the look when she just pulls it off ...just amazing

[@heedoei]

I think you have to check out “stabat matar” by Simone Simons(Epica) and Floor Janssen..

[@audreytryba2575]

Or sancta terra

[@ronaldderooij1774]

First of all, a bit of contention, so I will use Floor her words: "I am classically trained, but not to a great extent". Floor disliked opera for it being too perfect. She is a perfectionist, but even she was not perfectionist enough for opera, resulting in a rejection by one of her conservatorium teachers saying "you don't have an opera voice". She also dislikes the lack of artistic freedom in opera that metal offers in spades. She went on with a (private?) teacher from the conservatorium who did Musical Theatre, stage presence and some opera with her. That all occured after Floor finished the Rock Academy. So she is originally a Rock educated singer. By her own judgement, she did not learn a lot at the Rock Academy (the school was very new at the time). Floor herself was not too enthousiatic about this performance on Dutch TV in between the world tour of Nightwish. As you asked, no, Floor does not sing pure opera anymore.

[@KaisaValkama]

Floor is so talented singer that she can concentrate in story telling and choose witch quality of her voice suits best to a part of song she is performing. That's why it's easy to listen and watch her. We never see her struggle red-faced shortly going to faint just to hit notes bearly. World class singer like she is makes average song good, and good song magnificent. I'm so happy Nightwish got her to be their vocalist. ..Kaisa ❤

[@javirios9234]

Nick, another great reaction to the best singer I've ever heard. She is the Goddess and I hope you get to react to her version of Alone by Heart. It's, well Floor doing out of this world things. Cheers!!

[@timhutchinson8485]

Not to mention the fact that Floor had been a professional singer for about 15 years by the time of this video.

[@juniorcrv6867]

Amazing react, Floor is very talented! Please react to Epica feat Floor Yansen singing Stabat Mater Dolorosa live is incredible!

[@missgedonderbinnen]

What the most people don't know is that Floor studied at Dutch Rock Academy and the Conservatorium Tilburg Or that she is a soprano with a range of more than three octaves (C3 to F6)

[@Faeroy22]

There is a video of her pushing the microphone away. It was a more intimate venue. I can’t remember what she was singing. She’s a beautiful human.

[@priscilla1986ify]

Greetings from Costa Rica Nick!! You must react to Nightwish/ The greatest show on earth live in Tampere please!! It blows you away 😮😮😮

[@geertdelange4785]

I think the new song, Lanternlight from Nightwish is probably their best ballad

[@davinki2885]

BTW: Tuomas is simply a great classical composer. It's just that his set up is different. He composes for big orchestras and brings along the taped recordings on the band tours.

[@antivanti]

It's a shame and a little weird that they've never had a live orchestra. I mean Dimmu Borgir has done it multiple times

[@davinki2885]

@antivanti Epica too, sometimes.

[@schout33]

Floor is certainly not an opera singer turning metal. She started at the age of 16 with the (symphonic) metal band 'After Forever' in 1997. Later she joined the then new 'Rock Academy' and graduated in 2003. Shortly after she attended the Conservatory and did opera and music theatre for one year each. She calls herself a musical nerd, always seeking for new skills to put in her already overflowing musical toolbox.

[@AlldaylongRock]

I mean, what more tools can she get? Gregorian chanting? Throat singing? She already does about all contemporary styles(I see some bluezy/jazz stuff in her too),classical/opera and "clean" growling.

[@brewswillis9783]

So IMO, Floor is a Jack of all trades and master of any she cares to be master of. LOL Well done sir as always!

[@Peter_Cordes]

I happened to just watch the original TV segment right before youtube recommended this reaction you posted today. (All hail the algorithm?) In the interview before, she had just gotten back from touring America with Nightwish after they parted ways with Annette. And was a few days away from flying out to start their South American tour. This was *early* 2013, she had only joined Nightwish on tour a couple months before this. (They didn't officially announce their decision to make her a permanent member until October 2013, (which was after this and after even Wacken open air 2013) but said it had already become clear that she (and Troy) were a perfect fit so they weren't going to wait until their planned 2014.) They didn't mention it in this interview, but she'd been singing in metal bands since she was 16, notably After Forever then ReVamp. (The latter of which basically folded when she left to join Nightwish.) She had some training at the dutch conservatory (like 1 year?), then joined their rock academy when it first opened. (One of the teachers she really connected with was a musical theater guy. I think she mentioned this during a Beste Zangers episode; some people have made fan-subs of those to translate the talk portions. e.g. Denise Hofs - ENG subs: Beste Zangers 2019 - Floor Jansen Episode 4) But anyway, classical wasn't her main genre. One of her bands had opened for Nightwish on a previous tour or at least in one concert. The video I watched with the interview portion is titled: Floor Jansen interview (with subtitles!) and Puccini Aria Live in Tiende van Tijl 2013-1-2 (is that what you're linking in your patreon? IMO reactions should link the original thing they're reacting to, same for any video about another video.) edit: Forgot to say, I enjoy your reactions a lot. Always appreciate hearing what exactly makes good performances good, and sharing the joy of enjoying good music.

[@scottrk4930]

I'm learning so much . Thank you . I'm also looking forward to more Floor and Nightwish Reactions . Cheers .

[@RolfMeyer-cl7ou]

Thanks, great reaction for this Puccini Aria. Now look to Disdain from her former Band ReVamp or Yours is a empty hope from Nightwish. She grolws. Floor ❤the best Singer of my Lifetime. Grettings from northern Germany 🤘

[@blossomkck]

Enjoyed listening to you, thank you🫶 Floor startet in the band After Forever. Their "Ghost love score" is a song called Dreamflight. Floor is incredible in this song. The best live ( good recording!) was in 2007 at Progpower US. Not easy to find on her channel, so here's the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWSQkHlvpderaqssi=UgP5qjaOQc4gI5MM

[@youaremysecretstream]

A favourite song of mine❣️

[@geertdelange4785]

Thanks. She's an Angle!

[@AntaryDraconis]

nice, glad you liked it

[@naz88-36]

most versatile, talented female vocalist the planet has to offer right now....just saying

[@Weener927]

Thank you for your insightful reaction! I grew-up with opera music as my mother was a Callas fan. Floor's version is, as we say it the Netherlands: ingetogen. (Subdued). She's setting a kind of clean referrential standard and refrains from adding all kinds of frilly show-off vocal techniques. And do not get me wrong: a referrential standard in a kind of (typical) Dutch-style of less is more approach. Flawless in simplicity. Where some singers may have used the opportunity - to perform on Dutch National TV - to go for a total I-will-show-you-how-very-good-I-am approach, Floor instead kept it all very small albeit perfect. She's nice and humble; what a gem for music in general terms.

[@majbrat]

❤❤❤ Floor is aleays great, nonmatter what she decides to sing

[@no_onein2024]

Ok NOW you gotta see her first band After Forever and the live version of the song "Dreamflight"

[@user-VeryoldGeezer]

A couple of weeks after this tv show Floor was at the Wacken Concert 😎

[@bennybuffylove]

Anybody that does not know who Floor Jansen is, should go from this video directly to Nightwish Wacken 2013 "Romanticide" video. Both done in 2013. Wow, only thing I can think of what they would be thinking is....WTF!!!! Impossible, can't be the same woman. Better yet....check out Floor from 2010....ReVamp - Disdain Live at Graspop (2010)

[@jbird4478]

She was also still performing with Revamp in 2013. There's no professional recordings of that, but see Misery's no Crime @ Mezz Breda for an example of Floor doing death metal growling. On Revamp's album it is Mark Jansen (Epica) doing that, but live she did both his and her part on her own. Revamp was never really big, so right after Wacken she went back to playing in small local venues for us lucky fellow Dutch people.

[@goranelez9956]

Floor said something like "I know I'm not an opera singer". She did about 1y of classical training and moved on to other techniques. She called herself music nerd and learned a lot about many ways of singing, hence her versatility. She isn't trying to be the best in one.

[@roykliffen9674]

IMO what distinguishes the classical singers from "ordinary" professional singers - with a possible exception of musical theatre singers - is the ability to engage the "classical singer's formant" in order to be heard unamplified over an orchestra. I think Floor has that ability on top of all the other techniques she has in her duffel bag. Another really enjoyable "classical" performance is Floor singing with her friend Simone Simons - of the Dutch Symphonic Metal band "Epica" - the Baroque song "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" from Pergolesi with a full orchestra. The setting was the 10th anniversary of Epica, so in front of hundreds of heavy metal fans. (the band took a break for that performance) kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6LHp3mGd6yBZsUsi=Z9sQiNK86feUc-4_

[@jasonmarshall7572]

The band Epica Simone Simons and Floor Jansen team up and sing Stabat Mater dolorosa a lovely classical song worth a look.

[@jasonmarshall7572]

P.s. Floor helped Nightwish 2012 during their U.S. tour when a pregnant Anette fell ill and was taken to Hospital Floor became their lead singer replacing Anette 2013. Floor Started with the band After Forever aged 16 later forming the band Revamp and side project Northward. Each show a different side of Floor. My Paragon Album was a solo project Floor created similar to Pop music.

[@christinaalgate4899]

There's a video of Floor singing this song at a Revamp Concert. You could hear a pin drop. Maggie another reactor is also a Opera singer. Have you heard the Home Free singing Nessa Dorma. FYI Marie Osmond got trained in Classical or close to opera. I tnink she does Nessa Dorma

[@amandavanwyk5424]

Great reaction, but I have to say that it’s almost criminal at this point that you still haven’t reacted to Storytime and some of the other big Nightwish songs. Please 🙏 give it to us. Also, Floor’s guest appearance with Epica on stage will also be right up your alley. There is a live orchestra on stage. Epica is another Symphonic metal band. The name of the song is Sancta Terra.

[@yvonnevanwaegeningh-tiggel4577]

Don't worry... I'm quite sure that Nick is addicted enough by now to do all the songs that Floor has done over the years. Not just with Nightwish and Epica, but also with her former bands After Forever and Revamp, her rock project Northward, her performances on Beste Zangers (Dutch TV show) and Sing meinen Song (German equivalent of that) and of course her solo album that she released a few years ago. @nickhiggsthesinger If you read this, you know what to do 🙂

[@eliza.rose.morrison]

If anyone can do it (aside from an actual opera singer), it's a metal singer! 😊🤘

[@morbiouslenoir]

We told you so, Nick.

[@roblaw4554]

Too many things - A - she has a ridiculous amount of control. Period. Regardless of genre. And the enviable judgement of spot-on selection of "what, and how, Should Go Here". B - this is a PERFORMER. She will bring Whatever is needed and appropriate for whichever performance is in front of her. For her audience. And 3 - I particularly enjoy, if one watches the whole clip, how she is greeted by this stuffy "I'm way too invested in what is or Is Not classical" crowd on an absolutely stuffy program. Oh..! This "metal" singer with a NOSERING is actually going to attempt Legitimate opera? Here? How dare she! ...and the reactions speak for themselves! Thanks again dude another great react. Cheers rl 🤘👹🤘

[@yerviniansamvel]

One and only Floor Jansen

[@janjaapvdijk]

Floor has an interview / chat with Henk Poort on her channel where they touch on rigidity of the opera world. Pigeonholing 🐦 ft. Henk Poort - FLOOR FINDS #5 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qp_ZpKNuh6mcec0si=lwiI2Hs-SXFDqKdA

[@elsmoerenhout5837]

Try After Forever, Floors first band of Ayeron with also her sister Irene

[@Roller4x4]

Epica-sancta Terra vs Floor Jansen 😊

[@blossomkck]

Indeed a must do😊

[@damianvc31]

She had classical training but also she used to sing a lot in a operatic style in her first band After Forever (late 90s-2009) Of course it was with a mic but still she used that kind of tone a lot. Similar to what Tarja was doing in Nightwish around the same time. Nowadays in Nightwish she rarely uses that style anymore, except in specific songs like Shoemaker. That is purely a artistic decision from Tuomas who is not composing that way anymore.

[@redguern]

A very interesting reaction Nick. I think metal singers are the most capable of singing opera out of all the genres. I personally prefer listening to the metal ladies singing Disney and pop over the Disney and pop singers themselves and also over the “musicals” singers. The stronger voices seem to much improve the songs. I wonder how far Floor could have reached in opera had she not preferred metal as a career (our gain of course!)?

[@masterrubyan2976]

Floor Jansen did sing Symphonic Metall since 1997, as the lead singer of After Forever until 2009, after that ReVamp and of coarse since 2012 Nightwish. So she has a carreer in Metall for over 27 years. As far I know, she did 2 years of Opera study, after the Rock Academy in the Netherlands. Greets from the Netherlands. If you want a little taste of After Forever have a listen to this single of 2007: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pInNc3ice7SGjKs

[@humphreyterveer1338]

Floor followd 2 years of opera training, she is not a professional. The Charismatic voice made a positive comments on her performance and her portamento.

[@ViaVeritas]

💖💖💖

[@kammurabi2313]

Floor would be the first to tell someone she isn't an "opera singer," however I think if she had 25 years in Opera instead of metal she would be a prima donna in the proper definition. Still, I have to say I'm glad she's metal. It suits her personality and you're right, the versatility super powers would not have manifested in opera. Female metal vocalist goat is a pretty decent outcome I'd say. 🔥🤘🔥

[@AH-li7ef]

Had to check and Floor has performed O Mio Babbino Caro at Revamp concert kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpSuo4amdt2VpKcfeature=shared and the next song on the setlist is Disdain😅this is from Graspop, but the same song kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3-2l2lqgp6od5Ifeature=shared

[@vex3414]

Please please please react to Epica - Sancta Terra ft. Floor Jansen, Epica preforms live with a massive orchestra and it's really cool.

[@tarmotyyri6733]

Finally. P.S. She only studies musical theater & opera part time for one year each. The she realized that classical singing was too limiting for her vocal abilities.

[@user-VeryoldGeezer]

P.S. You could try Shoemaker live at Hellfest ..👍

[@JasonSmith-lp6wg]

Another singer you'll want to review is Brittney Slays from her band Unleash The Archers. Unlike Floor, she's a classically trained Soprano. There's a great video of her and another gentleman doing La Traviata, which is brilliant! Like Floor, she can do rock and metal; however, I don't believe she can death-growl. Still, she's got an amazing voice. Tonight We Ride is the video you'll want to review. Great video!

[@Columbasta]

Hah! Nice way to get triggered by a brilliant reaction to one of our greatest vocalists. So: "..these kids, going on talent shows.. just a gimmick". Agreed, BUT.. for another Dutch gem, Amira Willighagen, who was discovered in a talent show (Holland's got Talent). A YT self-taught "classical style" vocalist who wowed the audience as a 9yr old prodigy, singing.. (drum roll..): O Mio indeed!. This is a bit later: "Amira Willighagen - O Mio Babbino Caro - HD - André Rieu (Love in Venice) Maastricht - 2014" Enjoy! BTW: she's well-known in opera circles as a professional opera singer these days ;)

[@patrickgallagher3513]

NIck, please could you react to Dame Clara Butt singing either Land of Hope and Glory in 1911, or Il Segreto from Lucretia Borgia? Her voice was huge. Sir Thomas Beecham said that "On a good day, you could hear her across the Channel." Elgar wrote Sea Pictures for her. So she was rated hugely during her career. I'd be interested to hear what you think of her technique because it's very different to the way low voices are produced today. Cheers

[@demoremda]

im kinda curious what you d think of amira willighagen singing this one, she was nine at the time, nice reaction:)

[@berndrebhahn9862]

Grandgrandpa73 here: I tell you a Secret. Floor like Whiskey and smoke Cigars! ( True)😅

[@SCHTRAM]

I'd love for you to react to Sissel Kyrkjebø's version of O Mio Babbino Caro. (And plenty of her other things she sing).

[@andyhorvath6630]

Floor can sing anything ... she is a goddess to me, in her musical qualities as in person. She's definitely a very, very nice and amiable person, as shown in a very moving tv show about her (kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIPUoqCXadCKf8k and have a look at her performances in the tv show Beste Zangers and be sure to catch the before and after conversations too because they tell so much about her person). Did I ever tell you that I love Floor ... ?

[@Kelsi_the_lamentation]

🤘💎🔥

[@christorn8499]

This has to be the extended version, right..?

[@carolinaastudillo4867]

please react to "how's the hear? Acoustic By nightwish in planet rock, I would love to know your opinion as a professional about this song and how Floor can sing accompanied only by guitar. Saludos desde Chile ❤