Pavarotti admitted to hospital following bout of fever

LUCIANO Pavarotti has been hospitalised in stable condition with a fever in his home town of Modena, in northern Italy, officials and his manager said yesterday.

The 71-year-old tenor, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer last year, was brought to Modena’s Polyclinic on Wednesday and is being kept under observation. Doctors were expected to release him in the coming days, according to separate statements from the hospital and his manager, Terri Robson.

Pavarotti was holidaying at his holiday home in Pesaro, an Adriatic seaside resort 200km south-east of Modena, when his doctor noticed he had a fever and decided to admit him to the hospital for tests, said Mr Robson.