Amazing. I didn't think a person could sing that song without digital help.
Really, only one of them wanted her on their team!?! Now I want to see the other contestants they think have more potential than this girl.

There have been a couple of really well done renditions of it.

eg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0

She's quite good.

It's essentially a popular music competition. Opera does not fall into that category anymore. An entirely unfortunate turn of events really. So no surprise that the other two don't think they can do anything with her.

The original movie version was sung without digital alteration, but the on screen actress was miming.

The original song, Il dolce suono, from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor, is much nicer without the pop ending from the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLJHmtQo_kQ

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A girl sings the "Diva Dance" from the Fifth Element has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.

There's absolutely no way the movie version was sung without manipulation. Definitely some involved in 4:18 to 4:28 on this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoW_ZOfsrzA

None of that is real. There are four people on stage there, but only one of them brings any value. The other three are there to convince you to watch the show through their posturing.

I remember during the production of the 5th Element they said they'd specifically composed the opera to be impossible for a human to sing, but this isn't the first time someone has covered it.

Upvote the O-Face thumbnail...

http://videosift.com/video/A-girl-sings-the-Diva-Dance-from-the-Fifth-Element

...just noting that particular video is on the sift already.

My apologies - wrong word. Digital "assistance" or "aid" would have been better (in response to newtboy about "help"). As far as I know she sung all the notes (i.e. she didn't need auto-tune to hit the notes).

Yes, they've clearly filtered the singing in some way - but I believe it is for effect rather than correction of tuning or to extend vocal range, etc.

When composer Eric Serra showed soprano Inva Mula (who dubs the voice of the Diva) the sheet music for the Diva Dance, she reportedly smiled and relayed to him that some of the notes written were not humanly possible to achieve because the human voice cannot change notes that fast. Hence, she performed the notes in isolation - one by one, as opposed to consecutively singing them all together and they digitized the notes to fit the music. There are a few moments when you can hear the differences in the vocal tones of The Diva's voice.

/imdb

Would it not be more pleasant and fair to have the actual singing armenian girl in the thumbnail? Instead of the incredibly annoying finger wagging blonde person?

I agree it was as painfully fake as typical reality tv.

Interesting possibility.

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The Fifth Element: Diva Plavalaguna scene has been added as a related post - related requested by notarobot.

Whoever said that Opera was dying off really do underestimate the power of the next generation.

Fifth Element -Diva Aria has been added as a related post - related requested by newtboy on that post.