![]() The cabinet came standard with headphone jacks, as well as volume controls for the left and right sound channels. One other thing that is less remarked upon since it’s less obvious - but also plays into this idea that home ports were always going to be at a disadvantage compared to the arcade original - is that the Darius cabinet also focused quite a bit on sound quality. An impressive feat, that, and a large part of why the arcade version of Darius is so much more beloved than the home versions that inherently lack this kind of wow factor. ![]() Darius arcade cabinets used a three-monitor display to create a massive horizontal playfield, but not only that, Taito’s engineers figured out a way to make it appear as if the three monitors were all next to each other to create a seamless image - being right next to each other is something CRT monitors can’t do without color distortions due to magnetic interference, but a system of half-mirrors reflected the “A” and “C” monitors on the sides of the central “B” monitor, giving the illusion of a single, seamless image. Even if the quality of the early games didn’t match what was to come - nor did it equal the quality of many contemporary horizontal shoot ‘em ups - it was still this huge spectacle that drew the eye. ĭarius was a notable shoot ‘em up franchise from the start. Previous entries in the series can be found through this link. She performed the aria " Il dolce suono" from the mad scene of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and "The Diva Dance".ĭirector Luc Besson adored Maria Callas, but the sound quality of her 1956 EMI Classics recording of Lucia wasn't clear enough to use on a film soundtrack, so Callas's agent Michel Glotz, who had produced this recording, introduced him to Mula.This column is “The music of,” in which I’ll go into detail on the soundtrack or a piece of music from a video game. Mula is perhaps best known to Western filmgoers as the singing 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 Mula Tchako. Her current husband is Hetem Ramadani, a businessman from Kosovo. However, after mid-1990 she began using the name Inva Mula, and never returned to the old one. Her ex-husband Pirro Çako is a well-known singer and composer from Albania, but she used the spelling Tchako rather than Çako. She is often accompanied by the French-Albanian pianist Genc Tukiçi. Also in 2009, she released the album Il Bel Sogno, a compilation of opera arias. 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 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. Mula has sung in Lucia di Lammermoor, La bohème, and Manon, among others. 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. 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. 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. She then returned for Bizet's opera La jolie fille de Perth (released CD, filmed for TV, and released DVD in Japan) in 1998. In 1996 she performed Luigi Cherubini's opera Médée (which was taped for TV) at Compiègne in France. ![]() She later performed in various concerts at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, and in Brussels for Europalia Mexico, in Munich, and in Oslo. 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. Mula was born in Tirana, Albania, to Avni Mula and Nina Mula. She is also known for providing the voice of the diva Plavalaguna in the film The Fifth Element. Her father ( Avni Mula) and mother ( Nina Mula ) were also opera singers. She began her soprano career at a very early age. Inva Mula (born 27 June 1963) is an Albanian opera lyric soprano.
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