Inva Mula - wikipedia Inva Mula This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( November 2015 ) Inva Mula Inva Mula performing on stage Background information Also known as Inva Mula Tchako ( 1963 - 06 - 27 ) June 27, 1963 ( age 54 ) Tirana, Albania Genres Classical Occupation ( s ) Operatic lyric soprano Years active 1970s -- present Inva Mula ( born June 27, 1963 ) is an Albanian opera lyric soprano. She began her soprano career at a very early age. Her father ( Avni Mula ) and mother ( Nina Mula ) were also opera singers. She is also widely known in popular culture for providing the voice of the Diva Plavalaguna in the film The Fifth Element. Contents 1 Life and career 1.1 In film 2 See also 3 Sources 4 External links Life and career Mula was born in Tirana, Albania to an Albanian father from Gjakove and a Russian mother. In 1987 she won the Cantante d'Albania competition in Tirana and in 1988 the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest. In 1992 she won the Butterfly Competition in Barcelona. She received an award at Plácido Domingo 's first Operalia International Opera Competition contest in Paris, 1993. A CD of the event was released. She later performed in various concerts at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, and in Brussels for Europalia Mexico, in Munich, and in Oslo. In 1996 she performed Luigi Cherubini 's opera Médée ( which was taped for TV ) at Compiègne in France. She then returned for Georges Bizet 's opera La Jolie fille de Perth ( released CD, filmed for TV, and released DVD in Japan ) in 1998. After this she recorded Puccini 's La Rondine with Angela Gheorghiu for EMI and for 2005 's stage production she took Gheorghiu 's place in the leading role of Magda during performances in Toulouse and Paris. Later on, she performed Bizet 's Ivan IV concert version, which had its recital debut at Salle Pleyel in Paris, and a live recording was released as CD. In 2001, she was busy in Italy, performing Verdi 's Falstaff at the Teatro alla Scala and Rigoletto at the Verona Arena, both of which were taped for TV then released on DVD. Mula has sung in Lucia di Lammermoor, La bohème, and Manon, among others. She is also a renowned Violetta in La Traviata, and has sung the role in many cities around the world, including Tokyo, Bilbao, Orange, Trieste, and Toronto. In 2007, she performed Adina in L'elisir d'amore at Toulouse, and in 2009 she sang the title role in Gounod 's Mireille with the Paris Opera at the Palais Garnier, a performance that was issued on DVD. She is often accompanied by the French - Albanian pianist Genc Tukiçi. Her ex-husband Pirro Çako is a well - known singer and composer from Albania, so she used the spelling Tchako rather than Çako. However, after mid-1990 she began using the name Inva Mula, and never returned to the old one. They are now divorced. Her current husband is Hetem Ramadani, a businessman from Kosovo. In film Mula is perhaps best known to Western filmgoers as the voice of the Diva Plavalaguna ( played on - screen by Maïwenn Le Besco ) in the 1997 film The Fifth Element, where she is credited using her ( then ) married name as Inva Mulla Tchako. She performed the aria `` Oh, giusto cielo !... Il dolce suono '' ( the mad scene ) from Gaetano Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor and `` The Diva Dance ''. Director Luc Besson adored Maria Callas, but the sound quality of her 1956 EMI Classics recording of `` Lucia '' was n't clear enough to use on a film soundtrack, so Callas 's agent Michel Glotz, who had produced this recording, introduced him to Mula. See also List of Albanians Sources Jump up ^ 88 notes pour piano solo, Jean - Pierre Thiollet, Neva Ed., 2015, p. 180. ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0 Jump up ^ `` Rotovnik a new ''. Dnevnik ( in Slovenian ). 22 December 2009. Archived from the original on 15 Feb 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2013. Auzias, Dominique, and Labordette, Jean - Paul ( eds. ), `` Enfants du pays '', Albanie, Petit Futé, 2009, p. 80. ISBN 2 - 7469 - 2533 - 8 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inva Mula. Inva Mula at Operabase Inva Mula on IMDb VIAF : 61738726 LCCN : n97112106 ISNI : 0000 0001 0907 8347 GND : 128944560 SUDOC : 113829329 BNF : cb13965650s ( data ) BIBSYS : 4093877 MusicBrainz : 48774ea0 - b347 - 4d7a - a01d - e613a637a1e6 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inva_Mula&oldid=830798461 '' Categories : 1963 births Living people Musicians from Tirana Albanian operatic sopranos Albanian people of Russian descent Operalia, The World Opera Competition prize - winners University of Arts of Albania alumni 20th - century opera singers 21st - century opera singers Hidden categories : CS1 Slovenian - language sources ( sl ) BLP articles lacking sources from November 2015 All BLP articles lacking sources Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from November 2013 Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Беларуская Български Čeština Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Français 한국어 Հայերեն Hrvatski Italiano 日本 語 Polski Português Русский Shqip Slovenščina Svenska Türkçe Українська 13 more Edit links This page was last edited on 17 March 2018, at 00 : 35. 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Question: who plays the opera singer in the fifth element
Answer: Inva Mula