Pavarotti due to leave hospital

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.”

Later in the day, however, the opera superstar’s wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, told reporters outside the clinic that he had chosen to remain for a few more days because he feels more tranquil there than at home, the ANSA news agency reported.