Domingo Hindoyan

About Domingo

Domingo Hindoyan became LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director on July 1, 2026. His five-year contract will continue through the 2030/31 season.

The Venezuelan-Armenian conductor succeeds LA Opera's previous music director, James Conlon, who announced in 2024 that he would step down from that position at the end of the 2025/26 season to take on the newly created role of Conductor Laureate.

Domingo Hindoyan made his LA Opera debut in November 2024 with Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. He made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut earlier that year leading Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Sofia Gubaidulina’s   Fairy-Tale Poem.

Domingo Hindoyan is the Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and former Principal Guest Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
 
During his first season in Liverpool, Hindoyan opened his tenure with a critically acclaimed conducting debut at the BBC Proms, after which he embarked upon various recording projects, the first of which was released in September 2022. He also collaborated with Liverpool’s well established In Harmony educational program and continued to demonstrate his commitment to new music with various world premieres and commissions during his second season. Hindoyan has released five albums with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. The first, exploring Roberto Sierra’s music over the last 25 years, was released in April 2023. In October 2023, Hindoyan released Verismo,    which explores preludes and intermezzos from Italian operas. His recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony was released in February 2024. His most recent album,   Venezuela! Music from the Americas!, was released in October 2024.

In the 2026/27 season, Domingo begins his tenure as Music Director of LA Opera, where he conducts Carmen and Nabucco. In his sixth season as Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, concert highlights include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, and a complete Beethoven symphony cycle presented over two weeks. Opera guest engagements take him to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden for Rigoletto and the Vienna State Opera for La Bohème, while on the concert podium he appears with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Utah Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Duisburg Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, and the Tonkünstler-Orchester at the Musikverein Wien, Grafenegg Festival and St. Pölten. With the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Sonya Yoncheva, he also leads a guest concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Highlights of recent seasons included an acclaimed tour of Japan with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, in the USA concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and in Europe with the BBC Symphony, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.

On the opera stage in recent seasons, he has led productions with the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera, Paris Opera, Opera National de Bordeaux, Chicago Lyric Opera, Liceu Opera Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, Opera du Rhin, Royal Swedish Opera, and Royal Opera House Muscat.

Hindoyan continues to enjoy a vibrant career leading acclaimed ensembles and orchestras around the world including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, New World Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestra National du Capitole de Toulouse and Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. He has also conducted concerts and operas at many renowned festivals, such as the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and as a regular guest at the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier.

Domingo Hindoyan was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He began his career as a violinist and member of the renowned Venezuelan musical education program El Sistema, and then was a member of Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. He later went on to study conducting in Europe at the Haute École de Musique de Genève with Professor Laurent Gay and was the first assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin between 2013 and 2016.

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