She received an award at Plácido Domingo's first Operalia International Opera Competition in Paris, 1993. In 1992 she won the Butterfly competition in Barcelona. In 1987 she won the Cantante d'Albania competition in Tirana and in 1988 the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest. Avni was an Kosovo Albanian man from Gjakova while Nina was a Russian woman from Izhevsk. They were like kids.Mula was born in Tirana, Albania, to an Avni Mula and Nina Mula. They couldn’t understand how I got those notes that it was not possible to sing. I made them sit in front of my console, I was terrified! After the first hearing both turned and asked me, “Can we hear it again?” After the second turned back, they were amazed. Excellent people of a musical environment I knew little, but for which I felt nothing but admiration.Ĭhanging the voice of the soprano made me feel like a child playing with something sacred! I had in front of me the former agent of Maria Callas, the Austrian orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (editor’s note: nowadays considered the greatest conductor of all time) and a wonderful soprano. On the day of hearing for approval of work, I was impressed. When I explained how I would do it, who listened didn’t understand, but they trusted me.
Today it may seem trivial, but at that time many wondered how I had succeeded. I was overwhelmed: he sang 85% of what I thought was technically impossible.Īfterwards I sampled her voice and changed it a bit. We sat down and then she began to sing for real. The beauty of the voice and the perfection of her singing made me shiver down my spine. In the studio, before she even taked off her overcoat, she began to sing by reading the score. I thought that only 60% of the song was playable. In order for the scene to work, we needed a voice that looked alien, so I composed something that no human being could sing: I deliberately wrote very low notes followed by high notes at such a rate that couldn’t be sung, so the idea was that I would arranged everything with the sampler.īefore that I had never worked with an opera singer, so I didn’t imagine the singing ability that soon I would have appreciated.
Today she’s among the top ten soprano of the world. When the scene was filmed Inva Mula was a young talented soprano, and her manager was the former agent of Maria Callas (editor’s note: Michel Glotz). Inva Mula The Diva Dance: the composer Éric Serra reveals all the backstageįor those who have some doubt about what I’m saying I report the text of an interview with Éric Serra published last year on the French magazine Trax Magazine:
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