Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti remains under observation in the oncology ward of Modena Uiversity Hospital and it remains uncertain whether he will be discharged for the Feast of the Assumption holiday on Wednesday, hospital sources said.
On Monday 'Big Luciano' received a visit from his manager Terri Robson who arrived from London.
Pavarotti was taken to hospital last Wednesday suffering from a slight fever.
Hospital sources said on Friday that the fever had been caused by an infection and not by pneumonia, as initially thought.
Pavarotti. 71, had a tumour removed from his pancreas in New York just over a year ago and has had five cycles of chemotherapy since then.
The tenor had been staying at his holiday compound near Pesaro with his wife Nicoletta Mantovani and their daughter Alice before being hospitalised.
On Sunday, Mantovani again told reporters that her husband was "better" and confirmed that he would be discharged from hospital soon.
When asked exactly when his husband will leave hospital, Mantovani replied "in a few days".
Should he be released, Pavarotti is expected to pass the August 15 holiday either at his home here or his holiday retreat near Pesaro.
Speaking last month to the press at the Film and Music Globalfest on Ischia, Mantovani said that her husband was beating cancer and back in the recording studio.
Contradicting a recent magazine interview where Pavarotti's elder daughter Giuliana said the great tenor was practically wheelchair-bound, had lost a lot of weight and was basically waiting to die, Mantovani said:
"You never can tell with this disease but I think Luciano has done it, he's recovered".
Mantovani, Pavarotti's second wife and former secretary, went on to say that the tenor was "making a record of holy arias in which he will duet with other artists".
"It's going to be a beautiful surprise, but I can't say anything more about it," she added.
The July 2006 pancreas operation interrupted Pavarotti's two-year worldwide farewell tour.
Pavarotti gave his last performance in an opera at the New York Metropolitan Opera on March 13, 2004. He received a 12-minute standing ovation for his role as the painter Mario Cavaradossi in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.
