The force is strong with Domingo

Plácido Domingo has shunned the material wealth of the $1m Birgit Nilsson prize, which, we suspect, is why he was rewarded with a statue of a golden jedi during the ceremony Royal Swedish Opera on 13 October.
As the first winner of the competition, nominated by the late 'primadonna assoluta' herself, putting the prize money towards his own Operalia competition has set a strong precedent of philanthropy which will be hard to shake off. As Sondheim and Lenny said, 'you just have to pass it along'...