** FILE ** Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti smiles during a press conference in Modena, Italy, before the start of the Pavarotti International benefit concert in this Tuesday, June 6, 2000 file photo. Pavarotti probably won't attend an award ceremony in northern Italy Wednesday Dec. 6, 2006 night in what would have been his first public appearance since cancer surgery last summer, organizers of the event said. Last week, the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo said that the opera star was coming to the Bergamo Music Festival to accept the Donizetti Prize Wednesday night. But a theater spokeswoman, Raffaella Valsecchi, said Tuesday Dec. 5, 2006 that organizers had been informed that the "maestro probably won't come." She said that there was a possibility of an audio hookup with Pavarotti. (AP Photo/Renato Ferrini)