INVA MULA

 

Il Bel Sogno Opera Arias

 

1. Puccini:  Ch’ il bel sogno di Doretta - la Rondine

2. Puccini: Si mi chiamano mimi...... La Boheme

3. Puccini:  Dondelieta - La boheme

4. Puccini: O mio babbino caro - Gianni Shicchi

5. Gounod: Trahir Vincent - Mireille

6. Gounod:  Voici la vaste........ Mireille

7. Massenet: Adieu notre petite table.... Manon

8. Gounod: Le Roi de Thule, Air des bijoux - Faust

9. Gounod: Il ne revient pas - Faust

10. Massenet: Dis moi que je suis belle… Thais

11. Verdi: Addio del passato - La Traviata

12. Verdi: E strano... Sempre libera

 

Digital Bonus Track- Verdi: Caro nome - Rigoletto

 

Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra / Ivo Lipanovic

 

The Albanian-born soprano Inva Mula opens the Paris Opéra’s 2009-10 season in the title role of Gounod’s rarely heard Mireille, a tragic story of farming folk in 19th-century Provence. Two arias from the work feature on this recital alongside favourite extracts from Faust, Thaïs and Manon, demonstrating Mula’s credentials as one of the best ‘French’ sopranos of today. Her achievements in the Italian repertoire are represented by arias from La Traviata, Rigoletto, La Bohème, La Rondine and Gianni Schicchi.

 

Inva Mula was born in the Albanian capital, Tirana, the daughter of Avni Mula, famous in Albania as a popular singer and composer. She won competitions in Tirana, Bucharest (the internationally renowned George Enescu Competition) and Barcelona and was also a prizewinner at the first Plácido Domingo Operalia competition in Paris in 1993. Mula’s reputation extends beyond the world of opera houses and concert halls: in Luc Besson’s extravagant 1997 science fiction film The Fifth Element she provided the voice for the Diva Plavalaguna – tall, blue-skinned and tentacle-headed, performing part of the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor and supplying the piping vocalise for ‘The Diva Dance".

 

“A true artist” BBC Music Magazine

 

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