Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti remains under observation in the oncology ward of Modena University Hospital in his hometown, hospital sources said Monday.
It also remains uncertain whether Pavarotti will be released for the Feast of the Assumption holiday on Wednesday, according to the sources.
Pavarotti was hospitalized with a slight fever last Wednesday.
Hospital sources said on Friday that the fever had been caused by an infection and not pneumonia, as initially had been thought.
The 71-year-old tenor, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer last year, had been staying at his villa outside Pesaro, a city in north-central Italy, with his wife Nicoletta Mantovani and their four-year-old daughter Alice when he was taken to hospital.
On Sunday, Mantovani again told reporters that her husband was "better" and confirmed that he would be discharged from hospital soon.
Pavarotti had been preparing to leave New York in July 2006 to resume a farewell tour when doctors discovered a malignant pancreatic mass. He received surgery in a New York hospital, and was forced to cancel his remaining 2006 concerts.
Pavarotti gave his last performance at the New York Metropolitan Opera on March 13, 2004.
In February 2006, at the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Turin, he brought the house down with his trademark Nessun Dorma aria.
Mantovani, Pavarotti's second wife and former secretary, said in a newspaper interview last month that her husband was "fighting like a lion" against his cancer and was reacting well to radiotherapy.
Source: Xinhua
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