California State University, Stanislaus will present an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree to Spanish tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo.
CSU Stanislaus President Hamid Shirvani will present Domingo with the degree on Monday, Nov. 1. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. in the Snider Music Recital Hall on campus. The ceremony will not include a performance.
“I am pleased to present this honor to Plácido Domingo, who has played more roles than any other tenor in the annals of music and raised millions of dollars through benefit concerts,” said President Hamid Shirvani. “He is the most distinguished, internationally recognized maestro living today. It is a tremendous honor for us to have him among our honorary doctorates.”
Domingo’s efforts have helped the victims of the 1985 Mexican earthquake, AIDS and such other disasters as the Armenian earthquake, the mudslides of Acapulco, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, where the stage of the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts was named for him. He has also won many awards and distinctions: the U.S. Medal of Freedom, an honorary Knighthood of the British Empire, Commander of France’s Légion d’Honneur, recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, former Russian President Gorbachev’s World Award for Humanitarian Causes, and, in 2009, the first Birgit Nilsson Prize for musical excellence.
For more information about Domingo, go to:
https://www.placidodomingo.com/
Due to limited space the ceremony is open only to the campus community and media. Snider Hall has a maximum capacity of 318 people. Interested media should RSVP at (209) 667-3792 by Tuesday, Oct. 26.