In the aria, love and illusion mingle in the altered world of Lucia’s madness, which makes for an apt operatic choice to highlight an alternate universe in outer space. The alien opera singer, Diva Plavalaguna (played by Maïwenn with vocals by soprano Inva Mula) sings the beginning of the Mad Scene from Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lamermoor. Starring Bruce Willis, Maïwenn, Milla Jovovich. Here are ten films, some of which have been box office hits, that have used opera to speak louder than words, deepen our emotional connection to the story, underline crucial moments and turning points, and act as an abstract yet determinant character in the story’s development. Others act as a subtext to the screenplay and enrich the spoken words with what remains unsaid. Some operatic pieces are used as leitmotifs-recurrent themes associated with a certain character, idea, or situation. When operatic music underlines a situation, a mood, an act, a narrative, you can get “the big picture” (no pun intended) of thoughts, emotions, recollections, connections, premonitions in an instant, and much more so if you are even a bit familiar with the piece of music and what it evokes. Music-especially opera-opens up emotional and psychological dimensions that an action occurring more or less in real time cannot offer entirely on its own, since action doesn’t leave much room for reflection while it is happening. The marriage of film and opera has proven a successful artistic partnership from the beginnings of cinema to the present.
Even if you know nothing about opera, if you like movies, sooner or later you are bound to come across operatic music as part of a soundtrack.
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