Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti has been hospitalized, and is listed in stable condition, with a fever in his hometown of Modena, Italy, officials and his manager said Thursday. The 71-year-old tenor, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer last year, was brought to Modena's Polyclinic on Wednesday and was being kept under observation. Doctors were expected to release him in a few days, according to separate statements from the hospital and his manager, Terri Robson.

Luciano Pavarotti has been given the go-ahead by doctors to leave the hospital where he was admitted last week with a fever, but he plans to remain for a few more days just to be sure, his wife said Tuesday. Manager Terri Robson had said that Pavarotti, 71, would be leaving the hospital in Modena "imminently" after doctors had "happily given him the go-ahead to leave hospital and resume his summer holiday."

Luciano Pavarotti will remain hospitalized in Italy for several more days to have further tests related to his pancreatic cancer, the Modena Polyclinic said Monday. The 71-year-old tenor was admitted to the hospital on Aug. 8 because of a high fever. The hospital statement said that even though the fever is gone, Pavarotti's stay was extended for "the opportunity to conduct further tests related to" the cancer. The opera star had surgery for the cancer in July 2006 in a New York hospital.

Tenor Luciano Pavarotti was back at home in Modena, Italy, Monday after a two-week hospital stint. In a statement, the Modena hospital said the 71-year-old Pavarotti was released Saturday and sent home, where it said he could continue his recovery while staying in close contact with his doctors. Pavarotti was admitted to the hospital on Aug. 8 because of a high fever. The opera star had surgery for pancreatic cancer in July 2006 in a New York hospital.

Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian tenor with a glorious voice that made him the opera world's greatest star as he brought classical singing to the masses on a scale never before imagined, died today. He was 71. The singer, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, spent his final hours "peacefully" at his home in Modena, Italy, said Edwin Tinoco, his personal assistant, speaking to Italian television.

I first saw Luciano Pavarotti in a production of "Un Ballo in Maschera" at the San Francisco Opera in 1971. A music student at the time, I had a standing-room ticket. I was young and fast, and once the lights went down, I made a dash for an empty aisle seat in the orchestra section. But I wasn't fast enough. Another standee beat me to it. Charles Mackerras was in the pit and about to begin.

On Thursday morning, it was expected that classical music luminaries would be mourning the death of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who had died only hours earlier at age 71 at his home in Modena, Italy, after battling pancreatic cancer. One of those luminaries was Pl?cido Domingo, managing director of Los Angeles Opera -- and, along with Pavarotti and Jos? Carreras, one of the popular Three Tenors. Domingo, who heard the news while in rehearsal for Saturday's opening of L.A.

Throngs of mourners Friday filed through the cathedral in Modena, Italy, for a last glimpse of Luciano Pavarotti in an outpouring of love for the tenor celebrated as the greatest Italian voice of his generation. President Giorgio Napolitano joined the crowds viewing Pavarotti's open white coffin -- as many as 2,000 an hour -- to bid farewell to the city's most famous son on the eve of his funeral.

MARK SWED'S lovely words ["High Notes That Set All-New Standards," Sept. 7] captured the very essence of Luciano Pavarotti's unique gift: "When that sound so fresh and alive and gorgeous, like nothing I have ever heard before or since, generously poured forth. . . ." This was a man in love with his music whose sheer joy of singing gave voice to his passion for life. I don't care about the foolishness, the commercial follies.