Thursday, January 12, 2012

Placido Domingo wins Israel's Wolf Prize

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2010 file photo Placido Domingo arrives at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year event in his honor, in Las Vegas. Domingo has been named a winner of Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize, along with seven other American, British and Israeli recipients. The Wolf Foundation said Tuesday, Jan, 10, 2012 that Domingo is the first vocal artist to ever win its prize. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, Files)

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2010 file photo Placido Domingo arrives at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year event in his honor, in Las Vegas. Domingo has been named a winner of Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize, along with seven other American, British and Israeli recipients. The Wolf Foundation said Tuesday, Jan, 10, 2012 that Domingo is the first vocal artist to ever win its prize. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, Files)

(AP) ? Acclaimed tenor Placido Domingo has been named a winner of Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize, along with seven other American, British and Israeli recipients.

The Wolf Foundation said Tuesday that Domingo is the first vocal artist to ever win its prize. From 1962 to 1965, at the beginning of his career, he sang with the Israeli opera company.

Each year the Wolf Foundation awards $100,000 prizes in five fields. About three dozen winners have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes.

Domingo shared the award with English conductor Sir Simon Rattle. Israeli physicist Jacob D. Bekenstein won the physics prize. The others went to U.S.-based scientists, including chemists A. Paul Alivisatos and Charles M. Lieber, mathematicians Michael Aschbacher and Luis Caffarelli, and in medicine, Ronald M. Evans.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/4e67281c3f754d0696fbfdee0f3f1469/Article_2012-01-10-Israel-People-Domingo/id-9074ea5eedce49c887abbe6f2538a71b

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