Plácido Domingo has received numerous awards and honors, including:
Grammy Award
1971: Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Verdi: Aida
1974: Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for G. Puccini: La bohème
1983: Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Verdi: La traviata
1984: Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Bizet: Carmen
1984: Best Latin Pop Performance for Always in My Heart (Siempre en mi corazon) 1988: Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Wagner: Lohengrin 1990: Best Classical Vocal Performance for Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert 1992: Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten 2000: Best Mexican-American Performance for 100 Years of Mariachi
Latin Grammy Award
2000: Best Classical Album for T. Breton: La Dolores
2001: Best Classical Album for I. Albéniz: Merlin
2008: Best Classical Album for various composers: Pasión Española
2010: Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
2014: Best Classical Album for Verdi: Baritone Arias
Government and organization honors
Austria
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1992) Kammersänger und Ehrenmitglied der Wiener Staatsoper Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien – 2007 Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (2007)
France
Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur
Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris
Commandeur of the Légion d'Honneur – March 2002
Italy
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – 3 April 1991
Knight Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – 2 April 1997
Japan
Praemium Imperiale - 2013
Mexico
Orden del Águila Azteca, (Mexico).
Monaco
Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit (November 1999)
Spain
Premio Príncipe de Asturias – 18 October 1991
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit – 20 September 2002
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain – 14 January 2011
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic – 20 January 2011
Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise – 7 October 2016
Sweden
Birgit Nilsson Prize, inaugural recipient (20 February 2009)
Portugal
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry – 1 July 1998
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Public Instruction – 31 August 2018
United Kingdom
Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) – October 2002
USA
Kennedy Center Honors – 3 December 2000
The Presidential Medal of Freedom – 9 July 2002
Venezuela
Keys to the city of Caracas - September 2009
Other countries
Knight Grand Cross OMRI (Italy) – 2 April 1997
Cavalliere di Malta (Malta) Order of the Cedars (Lebanon) (2004) Medal of Honour (Oman) - October 2011
NPO
UNICEF Socio de Honor (UNICEF)
Honorary Doctorates
Royal Northern College of Music, England (1982) Philadelphia College of Performing Arts, USA (1982) Oklahoma City University, USA (1984) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (1989) New York University, USA (1990) Georgetown University, USA (1992) Washington College of Chestertown, USA (2000) Anáhuac University, Mexico (2001) Chopin Music Academy, Poland (2003) Oxford University, England (2003) California State University, Stanislaus, USA (2010) Harvard University, USA (2011) Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain (2013) University of Murcia, Spain (2014) Berklee College of Music, USA (2014) University of Salamanca, Spain (2015) Manhattan School of Music, USA (2018)