Henk Poort (born 20 January 1956) is a Dutch actor and singer, who mainly plays in operas and musicals.

Biography

Henk Poort is a Dutch singer born in 1956. Poort's major roles include Erik (the Phantom) in the Dutch version of ''

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'' and

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in the first staging of the Dutch version of ''

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'' in the late 1990s. He also sang as one of the "17 Valjeans" at '' Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert''. His most recent role was

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in '' Anatevka''. Beyond musicals and opera, he dubbed the voice of Gaston in the Dutch version of Disney's animation film ''

Beauty and the Beast "Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in (''The Young American and Marine Tales''). Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and publish ...

''. In 2019

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vocalist

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performed ''Phantom of the Opera'' with Poort for the Dutch TV show ''

Beste Zangers ''Beste Zangers'', formerly ''De beste zangers van Nederland'' (English: ''The Best Singers (of the Netherlands)''), is a Dutch reality television show by public broadcaster AVROTROS (a merger of AVRO and TROS, both part of the Netherlands Publi ...

''. The performance has attracted over 24 million viewers on YouTube so far (as of June 2024). Their performance was so well received that Nightwish revived their cover of the song live on stage for the first time in 17 years featuring Poort as a guest vocalist. The show in Amsterdam on November 28, 2022, was filmed for a future DVD release.

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1956 births Living people Dutch baritones Dutch male musical theatre actors Dutch male voice actors Male actors from Amsterdam 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-actor-stub