11/26/2022 0 Comments Inva mula youtubeVery 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. In the studio before even taking her coat off she started humming from the music sheet. 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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