(1997) (RyoDrake Productions) Being a lover of the weird, bizarre and wonderful, this iconic piece of film made a lasting impression on my. For me, this one song made the film, it’s a wonderfully magic morphing of bizarre SF fantasy and perfect opera. And wow……….what a costume
It is sang by Inva Mula an Albanian opera soprano and actress whose mother and father were both opera singers, under their guidance she began her soprano career at an early age.
Mula is best known to Western film goers as the voice of the Diva Plavalaguna in the film The Fifth Element, where she is credited as Inva Mulla Tchako. In the film (released in 1997) she performed the aria "Oh, giusto cielo!...Il dolce suono" (the mad scene) from Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and "The Diva dance" song.
Director Luc Besson, admired Maria Callas, but her 1950s EMI Classics recording of "Lucia" wasn't clear enough to use as a film soundtrack, so Callas's agent Michel Glotz, who had produced this recording, introduced him to Mula. The first video is the finished film version and the second video is the complete ‘green screen’ performance, some of which was cut from the film.
( information from Wikipedia)
