Alvaro Domingo

Alvaro Domingo produced "The Other Conquest" (Otra Conquista, La (1998), an epic drama set in the aftermath of the 1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Released in Mexico by 20th Century Fox, "The Other Conquest" became the highest-grossing Mexican dramatic film ever at the time of its release. Domingo has since produced the documentary films Young Artist and Operalia both featuring his father Plácido Domingo's work mentoring young and upcoming Opera singers.

In 1992 Domingo and Salvador Carrasco co-founded Carrasco & Domingo Films, a film production company based in Mexico City and now also in Los Angeles.

In 1991 Domingo graduated from NYU with a degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema Studies.

Domingo's first film production work was in 1984, as a production assistant and translator to producer Patrice Ledoux (The Messenger 1999; The Fifth Element 1997), in the multilingual production of the film version of George Bizet's famous opera Carmen, directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Plácido Domingo and Julia Migenes.

Producer Alvaro Domingo was born in Teaneck, New Jersey in 1968 and raised in Barcelona, Spain. He is the son of legendary tenor, Plácido Domingo, and Mexican stage director, Marta Domingo. After attending high school in Switzerland, he studied filmmaking in Bard College in upstate New York, where he first met his close friend and business partner Salvador Carrasco. A year later he transferred to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he continued studying film, history of Art and French literature. He produced and was camera operator for several short films, including the award-winning To Fall in Exile, directed by Salvador Carrasco.