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About Domingo
Chief Conductor: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Music Director Designate: Los Angeles Opera
Domingo Hindoyan is the Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and former Principal Guest Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also Music Director Designate of the Los Angeles Opera, with the 2026/27 season being his first as Music Director.
In season 25/26, Domingo will mark his fifth season as Chief Conductor with the RLPO with concert highlights including Mahler’s Ninth; Bruckner’s Sixth, and Dvorak’s opera ‘Rusalka’ in concert.
In addition, Domingo returns to the Boston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, New World Symphony Miami, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Paris Opera whilst making his debut at the New York Philharmonic and Pittsburgh Symphony, and Zurich Opera.
Domingo has conducted many acclaimed ensembles and orchestras around the world including the RLPO, BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Detroit Symphony.
In recent seasons, he has conducted opera productions at The Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Berlin State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Royal Swedish Opera, Liceu Opera Barcelona and Dresden Semperoper. He has also conducted at many renowned festivals, such as the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier.
Domingo’s critically acclaimed discography with the RLPO includes ‘Verismo’, Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, ‘Venezuela! Music from the Americas!’, and most recently a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony & Souvenir de Florence released in April 2025.
Season Highlights
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Domingo Hindoyan: Beethoven Symphony No. 9, IV: Finale
Domingo Hindoyan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, IV Finale, at the 2017 George Enescu Festival, Bucharest. Anna Samuil, soprano Roxana Constantinescu, mezzo-soprano Teodor Ilincai, tenor Daniel Boaz, baritone Romanian National Youth Orchestra Choir of the Enescu Philharmonic Credit: George Enescu Festival, Bucharest.
Domingo Hindoyan: Bruckner Symphony No 8; IV. Finale: Feierlich, nicht schnell
Domingo Hindoyan, conductor Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar Credit: Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar
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Turandot, Opéra national du Rhin
Opéra national du Rhin, StrasbourgJun 2023At the head of a committed orchestra and a valiant choir (Strasbourg and Dijon), Domingo Hindoyan proves to be a true theater conductor, but also restores the colors of the Puccinian orchestra, with beautiful atmospheres, particularly in the third act, Magnificent.
- Diapason
- 16 June 2023
Mahler with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolSep 2022The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s new concert season — the second with Domingo Hindoyan as chief conductor — couldn’t have got off to a more rousing start... the Sinfonietta, so vigorous, jagged and bright, took us far away from our mundane lives, echoing one of the remarks in the season booklet’s bouquet of enthusiastic blurbs: “When Hindoyan conducts the orchestra, every concert feels like a holiday"... the orchestra’s playing was so vivid and freshly nuanced that it was impossible to feel jaded... this was still a Mahler Fourth to remember. And when you’re planning your next holiday, do keep Hindoyan and Liverpool in mind.
- The Times
- 19 September 2023
Bruckner of freshness and grandeur in Liverpool
Royal Liverpool PhilharmonicJan 2022The first striking thing about Domingo Hindoyan’s approach to this enormous titan of a symphony was the absence of a music stand or score in front of him. Few conductors can know this symphony well enough to conduct from memory, though the benefits quickly became apparent. Though vast in scale, much of the 80-minute symphony felt arrestingly intimate in dialogue between conductor and sections of his orchestra." This was Bruckner with all the requisite grandeur, but also an uncommon sense of freshness.
- Bachtrack
- 30 January 2022
Clear, complex and gripping: Opera North’s Rigoletto reviewed
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolJan 2022Across the Pennines in Liverpool, the RLPO’s new chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan directed an all-French programme. This is his first season and we’re just starting to get a flavour of his tastes and enthusiasms, though any conductor who champions Messiaen’s Les Offrandes Oubliées, Debussy’s Jeux and Roussel’s chilly ballet Bacchus et Ariane is clearly not out for easy wins. These were focused, intelligent performances and in the Debussy, in particular, Hindoyan moved with economy and command, applying gauzy washes of atmosphere and brilliant dabs of colour. The RLPO is one of the few UK orchestras that gets to rehearse, for the most part, in its own concert hall, and nothing about its ensemble sound ever feels forced. They’re a fascinating match for a musical intellect as keen as Hindoyan’s, and of all the recent conductor signings at UK orchestras, this is the one that intrigues me the most.
- The Spectator
- 29 January 2022