"Hindoyan begins his tenure in L.A. as his fellow El Sistema music program alum Gustavo Dudamel caps off a 17-year run with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The two were childhood friends, and in a recent interview Hindoyan said he has gleaned creative wisdom from Dudamel. He's also taken notes from the L.A. Phil leader about managing an L.A. post from an ocean away - Hindoyan and his wife, renowned opera singer Sonya Yoncheva, currently keep a primary residence in Switzerland."
""His advice was, L.A. will follow your imagination ... push boundaries. L.A. will follow. They love it, and they need it," Hindoyan said, adding that as the city navigates ongoing political and social turmoil, it needs the arts to imagine a path forward. "Opera has always been in that position of trying to make people dream for a better future, and at the same time put it in our face, the wars of the human being," Hindoyan said."
Los Angeles Opera's 2026–2027 mainstage season opens Oct. 17 under incoming Music Director Domingo Hindoyan, who will conduct Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's Nabucco. The season also features Leonard Bernstein's Candide led by resident conductor Lina González-Granados, Puccini's Turandot with guest conductor Diego Matheuz, and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro to close the season under outgoing Music Director James Conlon, who will become conductor laureate. Hindoyan joins while maintaining his chief conductor post with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and keeps a primary residence in Switzerland with his wife Sonya Yoncheva. Hindoyan and Gustavo Dudamel share El Sistema roots and childhood friendship, and Hindoyan embraces imaginative, boundary-pushing programming for Los Angeles.
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