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T: Let's hear it for Floor Jansen!
F: Thank you, thank you. T: Just one last step, o here's another one.
T: Floor, very welcome.
T: For the people that don't know who you are.
T: Here is an impression that will tell something about you, let's watch this for a second.
T: A lot of people hoped that you would come to the studio today wearing that leather skirt.
T: It was that camera man and... eh...
T: ...well that other guy has left now.
T: But you look beautifully styled for what you are about to do later on.
T: You are the singer of the Finnish band Nightwish. F: Yes.
T: In Finland it is super big because over there Metal is mainstream.
F: Yes, yes...
F: ... a lot more than it is here.
T: A lot more than it is here but with that band you also go all around the world...
F: Yes, yes they have asked me...
F: ...only just weeks ago if I...
F: ... could come last minute to America.
F: ...because it went wrong with the singer that was actually singing with them...
F: ...and from that moment on I went on tour with them. That was in America, in the meantime we have also been to England.
F: ... and the show you just saw, that was in Helsinki.
F: ... and Monday I will get on the plane to Mexico and we will tour South America.
T: So you are actually stepping into a musicians' dream?
F: Yes, that's very true.
F: And we will also tour Australia and do the Summer Festivals.
T: Just to set things in perspective: what Kane is over here, that's Nightwish in...
T: ...in Finland?
F: Yes, sort of, if anything happens in the band...
F: ...you will read about it in the newspaper, and here you won't read that so easily about a Metal band.
T: So in a while you won't be able to walk on the streets normally in Finland anymore?
F: No, well... I don't think so.. T: If you want to I mean, it's cold over there, but if you wanted to...
T: ...you couldn't walk on the streets over there.
T: We are about to, and I know how it will sound...
T: I'm so looking forward to it. ...to see a very different side of you.
T: A totally different side of you.
T: So just prepare yourself and I will tell something about the Aria that you are going to sing...
T: ...Floor.
T: The opera's of Puccini...
T: ...are about human passions: despair, hate, sex...
T: And that directness makes Puccini's opera's...
T: ...fiercely attractive.
T: His opera Gianni Schicchi is a comical opera...
T: ...in which cunning, deceipt and hypocrisy predominate.
T: and there is one moment of sheer beauty in this opera, and that is the Aria:
T: O mio babbino caro.
T: It's a beautiful contrast...
T: As an island of sincerity...
T: ...in a sea of lies.
T: It is that one parliament member who's truthful...
T: In this Aria Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi's daughter, begs for his approval to marry...
T: ...the boy she loves so much.
T: ...and if you hear your daughter sing so beautifully then try to say no.
T: Perhaps you will hear this for the first time...
T: ...this wonderful Puccini Aria but I hope you will enjoy it.
T: O mio babbino caro by Puccini performed by Iris Hond
T: ...and Floor Jansen.
T: Next week Clara Schumann
T: ...The Oostenrijk sisters and Pearl Josefzoon. Until then.