Domingo Hindoyan Opens LA Opera's 41st Season with New Carmen, October 17
Domingo Hindoyan, an Armenian-Venezuelan conductor, will officially launch the 41st season of the Los Angeles Opera on October 17 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. He is presenting a fresh interpretation of Bizet's classic, Carmen. Audience members can catch a complimentary simulcast at Santa Monica Pier through November 7. Hindoyan replaces James Conlon, who holds the title of conductor laureate. This marks Hindoyan's return to LA Opera after debuting with Roméo et Juliette in 2024. The performance, directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, features Rihab Chaieb and Joshua Guerrero in leading roles. Hindoyan also conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Key facts
- Domingo Hindoyan opens LA Opera's 41st season with a new production of Carmen on October 17 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
- The opening night will be simulcast free at the Santa Monica Pier; six performances run through November 7.
- Hindoyan succeeds James Conlon, who was music director for two decades and is now conductor laureate.
- The production is directed and designed by Thaddeus Strassberger, choreographed by Antonio Najarro, and stars Rihab Chaieb and Joshua Guerrero.
- Hindoyan was born in Caracas in 1980, is a graduate of El Sistema, and was a violinist in Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
- He has been chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra since 2021.
- He made his LA Opera debut in 2024 with Roméo et Juliette.
- He envisions LA Opera as distinctly Los Angeles, embracing the city's creativity, cinema, theater, visual art, and technology.
Entities
Artists
- Domingo Hindoyan
- James Conlon
- Charles Gounod
- Georges Bizet
- Thaddeus Strassberger
- Antonio Najarro
- Rihab Chaieb
- Joshua Guerrero
- Gustavo Dudamel
- Daniel Barenboim
- James R. Oestreich
- Sonya Yoncheva
- Victoria Looseleaf
Institutions
- Los Angeles Opera
- Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Santa Monica Pier
- El Sistema
- West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
- Haute École de Musique de Genève
- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Paris Opera
- Teatro Real Madrid
- Metropolitan Opera
- The New York Times
- New York Philharmonic
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
- Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
- Menuhin Festival Gstaad
- Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier
- SF Classical Voice
- Staatsoper
- Los Angeles Times
- KCET Artbound
- Red Sky Presents
- ArtNowLA
- Long Beach Opera
- RMS Queen Mary
Locations
- Caracas
- Venezuela
- Los Angeles
- United States
- Santa Monica
- Berlin
- Germany
- Geneva
- Switzerland
- Liverpool
- United Kingdom
- Paris
- France
- Madrid
- Spain
- New York
- Buenos Aires
- Argentina
- Vienna
- Austria
- Bordeaux
- Aarhus
- Denmark
- Gstaad
- Montpellier
- Long Beach