Dvořák’s “New World”

Los Angeles Opera’s new Music Director, Domingo Hindoyan, leads Dvořák’s beloved and enduring Symphony No. 9. Bristling with spiritual- and folk-inspired melodies, the “New World” Symphony evokes the nostalgia of a distinct American landscape seen through immigrant eyes. At the 2025 Proms, Hindoyan showed a rare gift for Dvořák’s Ninth: “Rarely has the slow movement opened with such a velvety hymnal quality…its tension stunningly held; never has the Scherzo sounded so genuinely wildly, primitively whirling.” (Bachtrack)