Robert Jindra

Robert Jindra was born in Prague in 1977. He studied classical singing and conducting at the Prague Conservatory.

Since 2001, he has been associated with the National Theatre in Prague, where he has prepared productions including Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Smetana’s The Two Widows, and Janáček’s operas The Cunning Little Vixen and From the House of the Dead.

At the National Theatre, he has conducted a wide range of Czech and international operatic repertoire, such as Smetana’s The Secret and Libuše, Dvořák’s Rusalka, Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová and Jenůfa, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, Bizet’s Carmen, Verdi’s Falstaff, and Wagner’s Lohengrin, as well as special concerts including Mozart’s Birthday and the Czech Opera Gala. In the 2013/2014 season, he also served as Music Director of the Opera at the National Theatre in Prague.

From February 2010 to November 2014, Robert Jindra was Music Director of the Opera at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava. During his tenure, he prepared numerous operatic premieres, including Smetana’s The Devil’s Wall, Dvořák’s Armida, Janáček’s Jenůfa, The Makropulos Affair, Káťa Kabanová, and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, Wagner’s Lohengrin, Verdi’s Falstaff and La traviata, Massenet’s Werther, Catalani’s La Wally, Puccini’s La bohème, and Hindemith’s Cardillac. He also conducted special gala concerts such as the Verdi Gala, Czech Opera Gala, and Puccini Gala.

Robert Jindra has collaborated with Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf/Duisburg and has conducted at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo (Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos), the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava (Halévy’s La Juive, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, and the Opening Concert of the 2020/2021 season), the State Theatre Košice (Janáček’s Jenůfa, Wagner’s The Fairies), and the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec (Smetana’s The Two Widows).

He appears regularly at major festivals such as the Prague Spring Festival (Adam Plachetka Recital), Smetana’s Litomyšl, Viva Musica! (concert by Pavol Breslik with Adriana Kučerová, West Side Story / Candide), Janáček May (Adam Plachetka Gala Concert), the Leoš Janáček International Music Festival in Ostrava, and Košická hudobná jar.

Robert Jindra has collaborated with numerous orchestras, including the Prague Philharmonia, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Pilsen Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, the Slovak Philharmonic, the State Philharmonic Košice, the Essen Philharmonic, and the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau.

From 2019 to 2021, he served as First Kapellmeister at the Aalto Music Theatre and Philharmonie Essen, where he achieved exceptional success with productions including Aribert Reimann’s Medea, Ring an einem Abend (Richard Wagner), revivals of Puccini’s Tosca, Bizet’s Carmen, and numerous other performances and concerts.

In 2021, Robert Jindra made a highly acclaimed debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich with Dvořák’s Rusalka. Among the distinguished soloists with whom he has collaborated are Olga Peretyatko, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Susan Bullock, Cornelia Beskow, Rosalind Plowright, Elena Maximova, Nadine Secunde, Eva Urbanová, Maida Hundeling, Jana Kurucová, Adriana Kučerová, Gustavo Porta, Adam Plachetka, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Tomasz Konieczny, Frank van Aken, Peter Mikuláš, Roberto Saccà, Arnold Bezuyen, Pavol Breslik, Pavel Černoch, Štefan Margita, Štefan Kocán, Jiří Vodička, Marek Kozák, Lukáš Vondráček, and many others.

In the same year, he appeared at the Janáček Festival with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, recorded with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and pianist Marek Kozák, and performed with Adam Plachetka at the Smetana’s Litomyšl Festival. He also conducted a gala concert celebrating the life anniversary of Eva Urbanová at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre and a concert performance of Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Jarmila Novotná Festival in Liteň.

Since September 2021, Robert Jindra has served as Chief Conductor of the State Philharmonic Košice. His recent and upcoming projects include Verdi’s La traviata at the Slovak National Theatre, Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiper in Graz, and Janáček’s Jenůfa at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo. In July, he returns to the Bavarian State Opera to conduct Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and will appear again in the following season in the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra’s subscription concert series. From September 2022, he takes up the positions of Music Director of the National Theatre in Prague and Principal Guest Conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.