LOS ANGELES (AP) – Liza Minnelli’s broken right kneecap won’t be a show-stopper.
The 58-year-old performer, who injured herself tripping over a step at a hotel in Bologna, Italy, sang from her hospital room via satellite for Tuesday’s benefit concert hosted by famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti.
She performed an a cappella version of “Liza With a Z” for the hospital patients, which was being broadcast live to the Pavarotti charity show on Italian television, said her Los Angeles-based publicist, Warren Cowan.
The Italian tenor’s annual “Pavarotti and Friends” benefit took place in his hometown of Modena.
Minnelli tripped Sunday in the hallway of Hotel Grand Baglioni as she walked from her suite to the elevator, Cowan said. Her husband-producer, David Gest, ran to her when she screamed. He called paramedics and Minnelli was admitted to Instituto Rizzoli hospital.
She’s scheduled to undergo surgery Wednesday in Italy for an equatorial fracture of the right patella, then work with a knee specialist in London for 10 days, Cowan said.
Minnelli likely will have to wear a full-leg cast for about four weeks, he added.
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