She said:”How did you do it?!” She didn’t understand how I could make sounds that were impossible to sing. In The Fifth Element, the verbal and narrative. After their first hearing both turned back and asked: “Can we hear it again?” After the second time they turned back again and they were amazed. songs, opera excerpts usually do not function as a voiceover commentary through association with their text. Editing it, I felt like a child fooling around with something sacred! I sat them in front of my console.

Very high ranked people in a musical environment that I knew little about but for which I had nothing but admiration. When the time of the validation came I was impressed,I was facing Maria Callas’ and the Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan’s agent and a magnificent opera singer. When I explained them what I was going to do they didn’t quite understand but they decided to trust me.

“She sang 85% of what I thought was technically impossible” It might seem obvious nowadays but at the time many wondered how I did it. I then sampled and edited her voice a bit. She sang 85% of what I thought was technically impossible. We sat down and she started to sing, I was overwhelmed. I was astonished, the beauty of her tone of voice and the perfection of her singing gave me shivers down the spine. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film's central plot involves the survival of. It stars Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, and Chris Tucker. In the studio before even taking her coat off she started humming from the music sheet. The Fifth Element b is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. I had never worked with an opera singer before, I didn’t quite realize the technical ability they had, I thought that only 60% of the song was actually possible to sing. So I purposely wrote un-singable things, some too low, some too high, sentences that were too fast, I would then arrange it with the sampler. For the scene to work, we needed her to sound like an alien, thereforee we had to create notes that no human could sing. Today she is in the world’s top ten sopranos. When the scene is shot she is a young talented soprano, yet her agent was Maria Callas‘ one too, showing, if need to be, that she was already a promising artist. In that scene Maïwenn plays the diva but the voice is not hers, it is the one of a true opera singer, the Albanian Inva Mula.

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