Brief Incursion in The Film Industry
Mula is perhaps best known to Western filmgoers as the voice behind the Diva Plavalaguna (the very tall, blue alien performer) 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 adored Maria Callas, but her 1950s EMI Classics recording of "Lucia" wasn't clear enough to use on a film soundtrack, so Callas's agent Michel Glotz, who had produced this recording, introduced him to Mula.
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