#fernando varela

[thephantomssiren]

Who doesn’t like a Greatest Showman & Phantom of the Opera mashup?

Enjoy!

[jules-has-notes]

collaboration spotlight — The Phantom Showman mashup by Fernando Varela

When classical singer Fernando Varela first saw The Greatest Showman, the visual spectacle and soaring music reminded him of one of the shows that had originally inspired him to pursue singing as a career, Phantom of the Opera. After some noodling, he found that the songs from both shows could be combined rather nicely.

Details:

title: The Phantom Showman

performers: Fernando Varela (Raoul), Leah Lowman (Christine), & Tony Wakim (Phantom)

original songs / performers: "Never Enough" by Loren Allred as Jenny Lind (vocals) in The Greatest Showman (2017); "All I Ask of You" & "Think of Me" by Sarah Brightman as Christine Daaé & Steve Barton as Raoul de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera (1986)

written by: "Never Enough" by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul; "All I Ask of You" & "Think of Me" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, & Richard Stilgoe

arranged by: Fernando Varela

release date: 9 April 2018

My favorite bits:

the tinkling music box version of the instrumentation

Fernando's lovely clear voice, with just a touch of vibratto

Leah's hopeful princess-y tone

the echo on the Phantom's call

the little flip up into head voice on the second ♫ "never be enough" ♫

the way the songs from both shows weave together

gotta love a dramatic key change

the big harmonized belting moment with a sudden cut-off

pulling back to just tentative vocals and the music box to end

Trivia:

Being a tenor, Fernando cast himself in the role of steadfast Raoul, who falls in love with his childhood friend Christine when they meet as adults. Which is fitting, in a way. After all, Fernando has admitted that the reason he initially pursued opera as a teenager was to spend time with a girl he liked.

This video was filmed at The Ballroom on Church Street, the same location PattyCake used as their castle interior for "Beauty and the Bieber" a year earlier. With brighter lighting, it made for a decent opera house.

Leah and Tony's costumes were both originally created for VoicePlay's "Phantom of the Opera" music video in 2015.

A few months before this recording, Fernando had been a part of the Royal Christmas Gala tour across Europe, which was headlined by Sarah Brightman, who originated the role of Christine in Phantom.

In the lead-up to the release date, Fernando posted a series of coundtdown images on social media.

This is Tony's third filmed iteration of the Phantom. Before VoicePlay's full version of the show's title song, he sang an excerpt in their "Aca Top 10 — Broadway" countdown, which they also performed on the 2015 Sing-Off tour.

PattyCake had released their own Greatest Showman medley in the form of "The Disney Showman" celebrating the life and legacy of the illustrious Walt a month earlier.

Layne later arranged a portion of "Never Enough" for VoicePlay as part of their "Showman Medley" video with Rachel Potter at the end of 2021.

[thesarahfiles]

On September 26, 2017, Sarah held a press conference for the “Royal Christmas Gala”, at the Kaisersaal room at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. Gregorian, and guest performers of the show Narcis, Fernando Varela, Mario Frangoulis, and producer Frank Peterson also participated in the press conference. The “Royal Christmas Gala” tour featuring the Royal Symphony Orchestra visited Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria for a total of 23 dates between November and December 2017.

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