Lea Salonga on FOX 5 NEWS singing Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Miserables)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- MYFOXNY.COM - Opening night at Lincoln Center's American Songbook series will feature a special performance by Lea Salonga. The Tony winner and voice behind several Disney animated characters sang for GDNY on Monday.
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This is creepy after being immersed in Les Mis, the musical, movie and book. IF Eponine had not jumped in front of the bullet meant for Marius, it really would be her singing this, not him. Hearing the first "Eponine" I knew singing about the situation is very moving. And my "alternate reality" nerdiness clicks in. This is just beautiful. I can't get too much of Les Mis or Lea.
GAHHH !!! I WAS THINKING THE SAME WHILE LISTENING!!! like.. dang, this really could have been eponine singing this to an empty room, marius and the others all gone
I love this!! I hadn’t even thought of it like that! ❤
This would be so depressing! Now this makes me think of Eponine and Cosette meeting each other while mourning for Marius and perhaps they’ll start getting along and will bond over their shared grief.
Lea's pronunciation of words is so clear, so refine. You can understand every letter, every word she utters. I can consider her accent as one of th best.
I absolutely agree with you...her enunciation of the words makes a song's clear definition vivid...
I know there's no Perfect singer but in my opinion Ms. Lea Salonga is the closest you can get to Perfection. She is the best singer the Philippines has ever produced.
Empty chairs and empty tables where my father sing no more....
and the WORLD
This lady really sings
beautiful, Eddy Redmayne sings it to perfection.
Besides having an incredibly GREAT voice, I can not think of anyone who places the emotion of the song into her performances better than Lea Salonga.
You stop that.
Your voice is too perfect for human ears.
No, don't stop!!!
Full marks to the pianist, too.. great accompaniment.
I love her sense of humor plus her being smart. She's truly bless with that crystal-clear voice. I'll be forever thankful and proud to be her fan!
Brava Lea !! An honor for all Marius's to hear you sing this song with such beauty and charisma!
okay so she carried the melody in this new key so perfectly. wow.
Lea's diction is so good that I can understand every word that she sings in the song.it's hard to find a singer like this.
more than her singing, I always amaze by how she answered to all of her interviews, very smart and articulate.
This is one of the - if not THE BEST piano arrangement and interpretation I've heard of this song! Stunning!
Mark The pianist loves Lea's voice😍
Her voice is actually the most beautiful and perfect thing I've ever heard
Kim, Eponine, Fantine, Princess Jasmine, Mulan. Damn this woman has a lot of identities! Next thing you know she's Batman!
Lol not batman but she' captain marvel hahaha
Hhahah! 😂
Marius is next!
Simply stunning, diction, expression, technique, breath control, and so moving, just so incredible. She is incredible.
Beautiful performance! She nails every song she sings! On a random note, I need an instrumental in this key!
Most likely, because that voice of hers is just unquestionably, undeniably beautiful.
Only Disney? Oh these guys are clueless. Aside from Les Mis and Miss Saigon, let's not forget her roles in Grease, Cats, The King and I, The Fantasticks, Flower Drum Song, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie, Cinderella and many, many, many more.
Too many to mention achievements. 🤭😉
Jhanssen Tan yes and many more
I believed that all singers in the philippines...thier songs are holy and sacred...with a thousanths melodious rythm and amazing vibrations of frequency...that's why pilipino singers are excellent performer at all times.
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Watch her in a starring role in Redwood Curtain movie. She acted realy well in that.
It was the most subtly beautiful performance... most musicals singers can "belt" a song, and do the cheap trick of going for the "money" notes, it takes real class to take it down a peg or two and really "control" the voice and the emotion, for me, much more powerful, but each to their own.
I would listen to her sing a restaurant menu.
I would pay to listen to her singing my doctor's prescription.
@@Dace18 , I use to say the telephone list, because it may be the most boring thing ever (name, number, name, number name number, etc, for 2000 pages).
I used to say that about Ella, Piaf, Streisand, Amalia Rodrigues, and now, of course, Lea.
Lea has long been one of my favorite singers... and this only adds to the reasons why. Keep in mind she is singing on a news show with no mixing of her voice or music like so many other performers need to sound good. Heavenly!
I like lea salonga's voice, an angelic voice
The most beautiful voice I have ever heard is still a young Lea Salonga.
She is amazing as always.... but what a beautifull piano arrangement... brings another soul to the music... Loved it!!
Amazing voice and brings you goosebumps just listening to it so much to come out of
the Philippines.
can she just do the entire show please?
It's interesting to me, because I feel like Lea's version has a lot more actual mourning in it than many of the male singers who do this song. Many of the singers who do it in Les Mis have really muscular deliveries. When they do the bit with "from the table in the corner, I could see a world reborn, and they rose with voices ringing..." you get the idea that they're trying to revive those voices. Just remember Ramin's "Oh my friends, my friends, don't ASK me", where he sings as though he's arguing with himself and with real other people, compared to Lea's gentler version of the same line, where she sings as if she's letting go of people that perhaps she never really belonged to in the first place. I don't think either interpretation is wrong or right, but hearing her sing this song made me think much harder about the actual place of the song in the musical, and about the delivery of other singers that I'd loved before her.
lastofthelapras you by far have the most intelligent and educated opinion and comment here. thank you for your keen and more nuanced observations.
+lastofthelapras Yes, Lea's rendition is more haunting and "with more actual mourning." But i also like the version in the movie of Les Mis. Great performance.
+Ricardo Ramos I agree so much!!! I loved his acting there. I mean, Michael Crawford, Hadley Fraser, Ramin etc -- all exceptional singers. But Eddie Redmayne's expressions/breathlessness/tears/diction were all so, so spot-on and I really felt his loss. The way he sung the last "oh my friends, my friends don't ask me" still haunts me to this day!!!
Oh yes! Redmayne's performance is amazing!
This song is really quite difficult to interpret because it has to have competing emotions. When Lea sang On My Own, there were so many emotions because she was so conflicted and confused even. This song should be sung kinda in the same way.
This performance is all class. Sublime!
Perfect song as always from Lea Salonga! Wow...great perfomance!
she's so witty
You'll never experience a dead air if it's Lea Salonnga who's being interviewed.
PERFECT!!!!!!! omg Lea, where did you get that perfect voice. so touching and epic performance!
Most of the time, I have a problem with girls singing guys songs from musicals or even guys singing girls songs. But, she proved me wrong. I love this
flawless rendition...as always. she can sing all day and i won't mind.
That's the Voice Philippines coach/mentor. Our country's pride.
Lea's version is the best so far I heard from any female singers. Amazingly unique talent we have on Broadway!
She will always be the best singer for me.. I love you Ms. Lea Salonga! Im so proud of you.. Keep it up! I love your voice!! God bless you.
It has been a while since a performance of this song really moved me, but Lea sang it with such a tenderness and pained passion that I couldn't help but cry.
A very heartfelt rendition. With a beautiful voice to match. Bravo!
I adore lea salonga.... I want to see her on stage live desperately
So heartfelt. Such a versatile and brilliant performer!
Watching this on July 08, 2019. The wonders of RUclips.
Still watching july 17 2019.. hehe...
21 July 2019
One of my favorite musical theater songs ever and one of the best musical theater performers ever!
I ASPIRE TO BE ATLEAST 1/16 OF HOW AMAZING OF A SINGER SHE IS
It was a very haunting melody indeed!
I am proud of you Lea!
Here in Norway, i'm kind of bizi promoting you my own way to people.
Thanks for this upload!
Love and prayer
les miserables the best musical of all times 😢😢😢😢
Lea is one of the best Singer of all time!
A smart singer who is fun to watch on interviews, concerts, and movies. She is the first Filipino to win the Tony award for her Broadway performance of Miss Saigon.
One of my personal favorites of all les mis songs. Thankyou Lea Salonga for allowing us to hear a new rendition of such a very powerful song.
Yeah, Lea S is so gifted with a voice that is world classic......continue to conquer globally while you still can.....habang tumatagal lalong gumaganda lalo ang boses mo.....it's really a healing voice....
amazing. wow. i wish i could sing like that....
contestants on the voice phil. are so lucky to be mentored by lea.
All I Can Say Is That "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH MISS LEA SALONGA". 💖💖💖😊😊.
The Quality of lea Salonga's voice is simply majestic.♫♪ ♪♫♥
WOW! She in impeccable, I especially love her performance as Eponine...
Her low notes are wow solid! Dont know anyone who could do low notes as good as Lea does!
I love her!
WOWWW ..teary-eyed while watching lea sings
What an AWESOME version!!! Oh my God! I'm in awe!
Clarity of voice plus intense emotion equals ETHEREAL!
one of a kind, simply the best
one of the best and finest singer in our country.really makes every one of us very proud!!!
i fell the sadness of the song. I'm in tears while listening. Very clear diction and pronunciation.
I'm crying because I'm so proud of her.. 💖💖💖😊😊.
galing galing naman ni lea...i love her voice so much..
What a voice...so melancholy! Wow, with her magnificent interpretation, this song carries me thru the actual scene of the Les Miz play.
saw her in concert back in January :) this was the highlight of the concert for me when she sang this! Empty Chairs and Empty tables is my fave les mis song! :) well along with On mY own and I dreamed a dream
That is just so beautiful. You are so good, Lea!!!!
I love how she sings with a very clear diction. I love you Lea and your family. I always hear your song you are my idol. Let me hug you pls.
I am a JAPAYUKI, also a singer & entertainer like LEA SALONGA. Former Japayukis like me performed in night clubs in Japan. As ENTERTAINERS, we all know that whenever we perform WE ALWAYS GIVE OUR BEST & TRY SO HARD TO PLEASE & ENTERTAIN PEOPLE WITH OUR SINGING, ACTING & DANCING always hoping they will like our performances. But it's okay na rin coz we earned big "lapads" in Japan that really helped our families financially back home. I hope showbiz Lea Salonga (whom many people find her hypocritical) will have SINCERE concern & support to her fellow entertainers like us Japayuki singers to ask the government to BRING BACK AGAIN EMPLOYMENTS IN JAPAN for us ENTERTAINERS (SINGERS & DANCERS) coz we can earn big "lapads" in Japan that would really help improve the lives of our families...
When God pour out all those Angelic golden voice.Lea Salonga catches all of it.and she can sing anything nothing she can not do.i can listen to her anytime and broadway becomes alive.
So proud of you Lea Salonga... thank you for making Philippines proud...
Goosebumps Empty Chairs
This is my dream girl, right here. Leah, I just want to say, thanks so much for keep bringing honor to the Philippines. I've been a fan of yours since I was young.
First class voice...👏👍🏻🤩♥️💖 Lea Salonga😍🧡
This is one of the most heart wrenching scenes in Les Mis. T_T. She is awesome.
ALWAYS A FINE AND EVER REFINING INSTRUMENT OF FINE ARTS EVER since she was a child! MABUHAY!
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone.
Here they talked of revolution.
Here it was they lit the flame.
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came.
From the table in the corner
They could see a world reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
And I can hear them now!
The very words that they had sung
Became their last communion
On this lonely barricade at dawn.
Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
That I live and you are gone.
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.
Phantom faces at the windows.
Phantom shadows on the floor.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will meet no more.
Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will sing no more
The beauty,the talent and smart Lea Salonga
very nice song i love it...
Im a BIG Fan of LEA and proud to be Filipino!
when you see something as perfect as this, it's really hard to know what to comment...
Very Clear and soothing voice . I wish I could sing like you . :)
the great lea salonga
Can she just please sing all the songs in a musical? That would be heaven for me.😍😍😍
Such a brilliant performer!
Her voice is epic. You couldn't find a voice as gifted as Ms Lea Salonga. We have our definition of greatness and this is mine. Every one is unique and she got what it takes. :-) We should be happy for her! No space for insecurity. I love her!
gives me chills everytime i watch this
Beautiful...just beautiful as always.
Cant wait for her at The Voice Philippines
The most beautiful living goddess , legend!💕💋🎤
Its amazing leah your my favorite singer!!!!!!!
quelle voix magnifique !!! bravo
No matter how big you are, it's always great to be modest coz God is the gift giver, we should give glory to Him, the one who is Mighty and big!!!!! and He thought us to be humble. And those who humble themselves, He exalts!!!!!!!!
I realize that Singing is not all about the singer but the song. It is paying full respect to the song as much as giving life and spirit to its lyrics.
Magnificent ....admirable ...Lea Salonga
This song is made for female voice. Listened to lots of Les Miserables, yet this is he best version.
ang taray! go girl! you're a diva after all! show 'em who you are to the world!
This is right up her alley. Well done Lea! Bravo!
LEA SALONGA IS AMAZING. I LOVE HER SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH
OMG, I love how she performed this song....