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Ivana Dimitrijevic, Serbia, Concert 3
Elegant was the word that leapt out at me at Ivana Dimitrijevic's recital and it remained the watchword for her concert pieces. She wore this season's favourite turquoise and it looked wonderful against her pale skin and dark hair and eyes. |
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Ivana has a luminous quality and her colour and texture of her strapless double-layer chiffon dress was exactly right. It had a self colour flower motif at the hem scattered with sequins and a broad ribbon around the empire line that tied at the back and fluttered down. And she continued her reputation as 'best stole control'. Tonight's fine chiffon stayed in place throughout. How does she do it?
What do mezzos sing if they don't sing Carmen? Ivana gave us three very different pieces that suited her temperament completely. For Olga, Tatiana's sister, who believes that life is about falling in love and being happy, Ivana ended with a giggly smile and you could see the havoc that she will be wreaking in the rest of the opera. With her Charlotte, I felt her waking to the realisation that she is in love with Werther and the wave of optimism when, briefly, she thinks it might be all right.
It was a brave move to go for Isabella with Marilyn Horne in the house, but Ivana pulled it off with style. Whereas you can't help feeling some Isabellas may have won over those sailors with a heavy drinking and poker session, you could imagine Ivana charming them into submission and probably having them cooking and cleaning before they reached port. |
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