Álvaro Manzano Montero (1955 – 19 February 2022) was an Ecuadorian opera and symphony orchestra conductor.
Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, in the class of conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
From 2001 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2009, he was music director and Principal of the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic.
Manzano conducted symphony orchestras in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, United States, Estonia, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Russia and Venezuela.
He was the Musical and artistic director of the Sucre National Theater [es] in Quito and a teacher at important conservatories in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.