4.29.10 - 3:00PM
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Cole Stryker

Girl Sings 'The Fifth Element' Opera

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A girl calling herself DisneyDiva7 has uploaded herself singing operatically along with 'Diva Dance' from The Fifth Element soundtrack.

If funky, technofuturist renditions of opera are your thing even when sung by boring old white girls (as opposed to tentacled blue aliens), enjoy.

It's like when I was a kid and first recognized that all the haircuts from the original Star Wars trilogy were very '70s. Someday my kids will watch The Fifth Element and laugh at me for those cheesy house beats.

And the original version from the film:

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4.29.10

By Leah

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The girl is more "Disney" than "diva." She could use some voice lessons, especially teaching her how to hit high notes!

4.30.10

By piper46

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Maybe it wasn't perfect but do you actually think you could do better, moron?
I don't think so.

4.30.10

By Joey

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Please by all means submit a video of yourself singing this very complicated broad range piece and lets compare. Whats that old saying "Those who cant play coach."
C'mon whats the harm I'm sure you can do better :-)

4.30.10

By reignstorm

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who sang the orginal. Outstanding job DisneyDiva!!! Are you planning to do the dances too? hahhaa

4.30.10

By Ramona

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Wow! I thought she sounded great! I'm a pretty tough critic when it comes to singing voices, but this young woman is obviously talented. I suspect that she has had voice lessons and special training. Her comfort in front of the mic tells me she's probably had some theater experience as well. I'd enjoy hearing her sing some more mainstream stuff.

4.30.10

By kay

Lowest Ranked

i'm thinking she's full of crap...i remember reading that the aria was actually sung, then digitally remixed (sped up and overlaid) as no human could hut those notes in those ranges that quickly...that is of course regarding the whole aria...i do have to day it looks to me like she's lip syncing...imho...

4.30.10

By mothernaturecat4

Highest Rank

She is a wonderful singer.Sad so many people only find pleasure in putting down others.I hope being a Opera singer is in her future.

4.30.10

By Gorgeous

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Here is info about the (real) opera singer who voiced the alien's (not very good) lip-synch:

An internationally-acclaimed opera singer, Inva Mula-Tchako, gave voice support to the Diva in the movie "The Fifth Element." Born in Tirana, Albania, in 1963, Inva is a soprano and learned singing and piano in her native city. The “Singer of Albania” prize, which she won in 1987, was the stepping-stone to her golden career. This was followed by the prizes at the George Enescu competition in Bucharest in September, 1991; The Grand Prix Madama Butterfly in Barcelona in May,1992; and the Concours Internationale de Voix d’Opera Placido Domingo in Paris in May,1993.

Inve Mula-Tchako has travelled practically all over the world performing, covering countries like the United States, Italy, France, Japan, Austria, Norway, Spain, South Korea and Turkey. Her repertoire includes Gilda in "Rigoletto," Rosina in "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," Violetta in "La Traviata," Mimi in "La Boheme," and Leila in "The Pearl Fishers."

Inve-Mula-TchakoInva Mula is perhaps better known to film-goers as the singer behind Diva Plavalaguna who plays the tall, blue alien performer in the film, "The Fifth Element." In that movie, she performed an aria from Donizetti’s "Lucia di Lammermoor," the mad scene, and “The Diva Dance” song.

Behind the scenes, the story goes like this: Director Luc Besson, who really admired Maria Callas, was bent on using Callas's version of the aria. Unfortunately her 1950s EMI Classics recording of “Lucia” wasn’t clear enough. Then Callas’s agent, Michel Glotz, who had produced this recording, introduced him Inva Mula, who had just recorded Puccini’s "La Rondine" for EMI Classics.

If you listen to these songs, you may think it is impossible to do such vocalisation, but the movie's Special Edition Documentary claims that her voice was not digitally altered. However, it was definitely edited in “The Diva Dance” song at 1 min. 06 sec. from the start. A wind instrument can distinctly be heard overdubbing her voice.

The music in this movie has a very dramatic effect. During Plavalguna’s performance the vocalisation and music shifts from classic to pop to match with Leeloo’s fight with the mangalores in Plavalguna’s chamber. The fight choreography is very skilfully set to the music. In this sequence, the music is both diegetic and extra-diegetic, as the music is audible to the characters in the theater and is at the same time the dramatic score for the fight scene creating a very unusual cinematic effect. Fifth-element-opera-singer

While Inva Mula has given voice support to the Diva in the movie, the role of Plavalaguna was played by French actress Maiwenn Le Besco. Both songs, aria from “Lucia di Lammermoor,” which is Part I, and the The Diva Dance song, which is part II, are included as separate sound tracks on The Fifth Element, but are sequenced to create the effect of the entire performance as seen in the film. Part I and Part II has been blended so well creating a smooth transition between the two tracks.