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Grand dame promises spectacular entrance
PATRICK McDONALD
ARTS EDITOR
LONDON opera singer Lili La Scala will make her grand entrance in Friday's Adelaide Fringe opening parade atop a cherry picker, leading a river of blood-red fabric.
This is La Scala's first appearance at the Fringe, where she is starring in The Boy with Tape on his Face - and performing a balloon-popping striptease in The Seriously Big Show.
"I'm actually a trained opera singer - that's my first love. The burlesque thing came later," La Scala said.
She studied as a soprano at London's Guild Hall School of Music. "After that, I started doing street performing and that's taken me all over the world," she said.
The cherry picker, which will have its own sound system and a giant mirror ball, is the centrepiece of the Hepatitis C Council of South Australia's "Red and Flowing" float. It will be surrounded by staff, family and friends in red costumes.
"It's a team-building exercise for our organisation," council executive officer Kerry Paterson said.
"It's like blood flowing. It's trying to put across a message about blood awareness: We wanted to celebrate all the good things about blood."
The Hepatitis Council is among 60 community, business and artist groups taking part in Friday's parade.
Story and picture reprinted with thanks to the Adelaide Advertiser.
