Robert Jindra

Robert Jindra was born in Prague (Czechia) in 1977, where he studied singing and conducting at the Prague Conservatory. He served as Music Director of the National Theatre in Prague in the 2013/14 season and has again held this position since 2022; he is also First Guest Conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2022.

From 2010 to 2014, he was Music Director of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre in Ostrava. Between 2019 and 2021, he worked as First Kapellmeister at the Aalto Music Theatre and the Essen Philharmonic, where his repertoire included Reimann’s Medea, Ring in One Evening, Tosca and Carmen. From 2021 to 2024, he additionally served as Chief Conductor of the Košice State Philharmonic.

Since 2001, he has conducted a wide-ranging repertoire at the Prague National Theatre, spanning from Mozart to Janáček. In 2021, he made a successful debut at the Bavarian State Opera with Rusalka and subsequently returned to this stage with Das schlaue Füchs­lein.

Further engagements have taken him to Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, Graz Opera, the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, the Prague Spring Festival, the Leoš Janáček International Music Festival, and the Košice Music Spring.

In the 2024/25 season, he made his debuts at the Berlin State Opera with Věc Ma­kro­pu­los, at the Semperoper Dresden with Roméo et Juliette, and at Oper Frankfurt with Aus ei­nem To­ten­haus. Future debuts are planned at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, the Bregenz Festival, and the Theater an der Wien.