Luciano Pavarotti is not getting better as his doctors initially thought: the maestro will have to remain in Modena's Policlinico cancer ward for a few more days; his wife Nicoletta Mantovani explained that "he is more comfortable there for the time being".
Among the visitors to Pavarotti's room, soprano Mirella Freni, Mimi to his Rodolfo, once upon a time.
It is indeed more than a bit jarring -- if not simply pathetic -- the e-mail that Pavarotti's manager Terri Robson sent to The Associated Press.
Robson wrote that a newspaper report that the tenor was suffering from pneumonia was, "completely exaggerated," [...] "He will be leaving hospital imminently," [...] "He is looking forward to getting back to teaching his young singing pupils as soon as he is out of hospital and next month plans to get back into his Modena recording studio to resume work on his new album of sacred songs." Robson visited Pavarotti yesterday and wrote that he was in, "wonderfully high spirits."
Whatever.