Italian opera legend Luciano Pavarotti was at ease despite knowing that he was close to death.
Washington, Sep 7 : Italian opera legend Luciano Pavarotti was at ease despite knowing that he was close to death.
In his last ever interview, with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the tenor admitted that he was indebted to God for blessing him with a "happy and fortunate" life, even during the final days of his fight with cancer.
Pavarotti said that he was calm and composed during his last days because he knew that it was "God's way" of "getting even" with him, for forging such a hugely successful career.
"I have been a happy and fortunate man for 65 years. Then came this blow (cancer). And now I am paying the price of all that happiness and good fortune. But I find sustenance in my childhood, which was both poor and happy, and I look at things calmly," Contactmusic quoted the late Pavarotti, as telling the paper.
"Illness has never caused me anguish. You feel the tumour inside of you. It works at you. But I am and will remain optimistic until I die. I have had everything in life, truly everything. So if it were all taken away, then God and I would be even," he added.
Pavarotti, 71, died on Sep 6 at his home in Modena, Northern Rome, after losing his long battle with cancer.
ANI