Attacked tenor taken off sedatives
Italian tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano was being taken off sedatives, and doctors were hopeful about his recovery from injuries sustained in an attack at his home in Kenya last week, an official of the Italian Consulate said Tuesday.
Doctors at the hospital in Mombasa, where the 83-year-old Di Stefano is being treated, first operated on the retired opera star last Wednesday, a day after the attack, Tommaso Castellano, Italy’s honorary consul, said by telephone from Mombasa.
He said Di Stefano, who was struck in the head during the attack, had been unconscious and fed on an intravenous drip since the operation, which had to be repeated Saturday.
Di Stefano was attacked by robbers at his house in Diani, about 270 miles southeast of Nairobi. Castellano said he was hit in the head as he tried to defend his wife.
Di Stefano, considered one of the greatest tenors of the 20th century, last performed in 1992.
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