As reported by an Italian television station Luciano Pavarotti, the Opera star was seriously ill at his home last night after his kidneys failed in Italy.

He was praised vociferously with the label as the greatest tenor of his generation. He had undergone for the pancreatic cancer surgery last year. With this he was surrounded by members of his family and close friends as mentioned by a local television Antenna Uno which was in his home town of Modena.

The shocking statement that the 71-year-old star, Pavarotti is in “very serious condition” was given by the AGI news agency. With this the agency added that a cancer specialist came to attended him at his home while in a dispatch from Rome.

After sinc e Enrico Caruso, Pavarotti is described as the greatest Tenor. As he was suffering from a high fever and respirator problems he was taken to hospital on August 8. On August 25, after the tests and treatment carried for about more than two weeks he was released from the Policlinico hospital in Modena.

The reported decline in quality of his condition came the day after he was awarded with a newly-created prize by the Italy’s Culture minister for his contribution to the arts. No date was set to organize the award ceremony and he was the first recipient to receive this award.

The opera star as was engaging a powerful battle against illness with the same determination with which he established himself in the world, this was the verbal description made by the deputy prime minister in Italy’s center-left government named Francesco Rutelli.

In July 2006, Pavarotti surgery for pancreatic cancer was undergoing at a New York hospital. With his positive view he was planning his farewell tour before the operation.

In 1961, at Reggio Emilia in Puccini's La Boheme he made his introduction as Rodolfo and in 1972 he attained the first great peak in his career. With this at the Metropolitan Opera in New York he experienced 17 curtain calls from an audience that listened him hit nine high Cs.

He was translated into a global celebrity with the fame that he received far beyond opera houses by executing at football World cup in 1990. He gave a world wide hit song by his thrilling rendering to the competition’s theme song, Puccini aria Nessun Dorma.

By FW Editor

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Tags: italy, tenor, modena

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Category: Celebrities  - ( Celebrities Archive)

Date Added: 23 April '10

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