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MODENA, Italy (Reuters) -- Opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti, diagnosed with cancer last year, is doing better after being admitted to hospital two days ago, his wife said on Friday.
Pavarotti is considered one of the best Opera singers of all time
Pavarotti, 71, regarded by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, was taken to hospital with a high fever in his home town of Modena on Wednesday.
He is being treated in the hospital's cancer ward. "He is doing better, thank you," Pavarotti's wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, who is 34 years his junior, told reporters as she left the cancer ward on Friday morning.
Asked whether the singer, who underwent surgery in July last year to remove a pancreatic tumor, would be discharged soon, she said: "Certainly in the next few days."
A hospital spokesman said on Thursday his condition was satisfactory, and he was likely to be discharged in the next few days. E-mail to a friend 
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