Ailing Pavarotti 'making a recording'
Luciano Pavarotti, who is battling pancreatic cancer, is working on a recording of sacred songs, his manager said today.
“He’s very positive,” said London-based Terri Robson.
Pavarotti’s work on the recording of classical religious music should be finished by the end of August or September, Robson said, and the recording should be available to the public in early 2008.
The 71-year-old opera great is also “teaching every day”, working with a group of students he selected for study, she said.
Italian women’s magazine Diva e Donna today quoted one of Pavarotti’s daughters, Giuliana, as saying her father “knows he will die soon”.
The article originally appeared in a German magazine Bunte.
But Robson said Giuliana Pavarotti’s comments were taken out of context.
She was “horrified” that “her words were twisted”, Robson said.
The manager said she had spoken to the tenor an hour earlier to let him know about the magazine article and that “he just laughed about it”.
Pavarotti “said he is feeling stronger” and is dividing his time this summer between his home in his home town of Modena, where he is working on the recording, and his villa in the Adriatic seaside resort of Pesaro.
In Pesaro, he has been swimming in the villa’s pool with his youngest daughter, three-year-old Alice, Robson said.
