Ailing Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti is in satisfactory condition and could be discharged, a bulletin from the Modena University Hospital said on Thursday.
Pavarotti, 71, was hospitalised on Wednesday reportedly suffering from a slight fever and the first signs of pneumonia.
Hospital officials added that the tenor would remain under observation in the oncology ward.
Pavarotti 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 villa outside Pesaro with his wife Nicoletta Mantovani and their four-year-old daughter Alice.
Mantovani arrived at the hospital Wednesday morning to consult with physicians and the head of the oncology ward.
She then visited briefly with her husband and later left from a secondary exit to avoid the press.
The tenor sounded in good form last month when he spoke by phone with the Film and Music Globalfest on Ischia where his wife accepted a prize in his honor.
Speaking to the press at the festival, 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.
In February 2006, at the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Turin, he brought the house down with his trademark Nessun Dorma aria.
