Domingo to Perform at This Year’s iTunes Festival in London

Placido Domingo is officially the closer…

The 73-year-old Spanish tenor and conductor has been announced as the closing act at this year’s iTunes Festival in London.

Placido Domingo

Domingo, known for his versatile and strong voice, will perform September 30 at the Roundhouse – the last performance of a month-long, starry line-up, festival organizers announced.

Deadmau5 kicks off the concerts on Monday night, followed by headline sets from pop names like Pharrell Williams, Calvin Harris, The Script and Ed Sheeran.

Kylie Minogue, Kasabian, Mary J. Blige, Blondie, Maroon 5 and Robert Plant are also playing the festival.

The organizers quoted Domingo as saying he was thrilled to appear and for “the recognition that this brings to the unique and magnificent world of opera and of classical music.”

One of The Three Tenors, he has sung 144 different roles as of the end of 2013. Domingo has more recently taken on conducting opera and concert performances, and is the general director of the Los Angeles Opera in California.

Tickets are for competition winners, but gigs can be streamed live in more than 100 countries or watched on-demand.

Fifth Harmony Named Favorite Band on Social Media at the Shorties

Camila Cabello, Lauren Jauregui, Ally Brooke Hernandez and their Fifth Harmony band mates are the queens of social media.

The all-girl group, created by Simon Cowell on the second season of Fox’s now cancelled The X Factor, has picked up a Shorty Award.

Fifth Harmony

The Shorties, as they’re called, ar doled out annually to honor the best short-form content creators on Twitter and on other social media sites.

Fifth Harmony was named favorite band on social media, beating out One Direction, The Script, Emblem3, Big Time Rush, 5 Seconds of Summer and Tokio Hotel.

Since finishing third on The X Factor, Fifth Harmony has managed to earn a loyal following on social media. The band has 1.17 million followers on Twitter, 436,000 followers on Instagram and 2,768,848 likes on Facebook.

Here’s a look at this year’s Shorty Award winners in the key categories:

Entertainment

#Actor
Aaron Paul, @aaronpaul_8
#Actress Retta, @unfoRETTAble
#Band
Fifth Harmony, @FifthHarmony
#Celebrity
Sir Ian McKellen, @IanMcKellen
#Comedian
Patton Oswalt, @pattonoswalt
#Director
Paul Feig, @paulfeig
#FakeAccount
Modern Seinfeld, @SeinfeldToday
#Fansite
News for TV Majors, @N4TVM
#Music
Questlove, @questlove
#NonHuman
Cancellation Bear, @TheCancelBear
#Singer
Questlove, @questlove
#TVShow
Scandal, @ScandalABC

News & Media

#Athlete
Billie Jean King, @BillieJeanKing
#Food
Jamie Oliver, @jamieoliver
#Journalist
Sarah Jones, @SarahJReports
Kickstarter of the Year
The Veronica Mars Movie Project
Newsworthy Photo of the Year
Pope Francis Introduction by Roberto Luigi
#SocialFitness
Tyler Graham, @_Tyler_Graham_
#SportsTeam
Los Angeles Dodgers, @Dodgers
#Weird
Buck Wolf, @wolfb

Tech & Innovation

#Apps
Digg, @digg
#BNCollege
Boston University’s College of Communication, @comugrad
#Blogger
Terrance Gaines, @BrothaTech
#BusinessInfluencer
Guy Kawasaki, @GuyKawasaki
#Gaming
Polygon, @Polygon
#Maker
DIY, @DIY
#Podcaster
This American Life, @ThisAmerLife
#Science
Black Girls Code, @BlackGirlsCode; Neil deGrasse Tyson, @neiltyson
#SmallBusiness
The Brooklyn Circus, @TheBKcircus
Tumblr of the Year
Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls at the Party
#WebShow
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, @Jerry Seinfeld

Arts & Design

#Art
Rachel Ryle, @rachelryle
#Author
Neil Gaiman, @neilhimself
#Fashion
Man Repeller, @ManRepeller
#GIFMaker
Trent Nelson, @trenthead
GIF of the Year
Matrix Cat
Instagram Video of the Year
I Look Good by Paul Zedrich
#Instagrammer
Dukk Deuce, @Dukk2
#Museum
Museum Nerd, @museumnerd
#Photography
David Guttenfelder, @dguttenfelder; Liz Eswein, @newyorkcityliz
#VideoBlogger
Jullien Gordon, @JullienGordon
Vine of the Year
My reflection is cooler than me by Chad Jaxon Perez
#Vineographer
Cupcake Dude, @TheDudeBakes; Pinot, @Pinot
#YouTubeStar
Kid Fury, @KidFury

Global Issues

#Activism
Against Suicide, @AgainstSuicide
#Charity
Nature Conservancy, @nature_org
#Education
Paulo Pirula, @Pirulla25
#Government
NASA Goddard, @NASAGoddard
#Green
Sustainable Cities, @sustaincities
#TeenActivism
Buddy Project, @ProjectBuddy; New York Life’s #KeepGoodGoing; Dr. Jen Arnold, @JenArnoldMD