Robert Jindra studied voice and conducting at the Prague Conservatory. 

 

Since 2001 he has conducted at the National Theatre in Prague, where he has performed Mozart's Così fan tutte, Smetana's The Two Widows and Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, From the House of the Dead, as well as a number of operas from the Czech and international opera repertoire (Smetana - The Secret and Libuše, Dvořák - Rusalka, Janáček - Katya Kabanová and Jenůfa, Mozart - Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, Bizet - Carmen, Verdi - Falstaff, Wagner - Lohengrin, etc. ) or the extraordinary concerts Mozart's Birthday and Czech Opera Gala.

In the 2013/2014 season he also served as Music Director of the National Theatre Opera in Prague. 

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From February 2010 to November 2014, he was Music Director of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava, where he staged a number of productions (Smetana - The Devil's Wall, Dvořák - Armida, Janáček - Jenůfa, The Makropulos Affair, Katya Kabanova and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, Wagner - Lohengrin, Verdi - Falstaff and La traviata, Massenet - Werther, Catalani - La Wally, Puccini - La Bohème, Hindemith - Cardillac) as well as special concerts Verdi Gala, Czech Opera Gala and Puccini Gala.

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He has collaborated with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, conducted at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo (Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos), at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava (Halévy - The Jewess, Smetana - The Bartered Bride). He has performed at major festivals such as Prague Spring (Adam Plachetka Recital), Smetana Litomyšl, Viva musica (Pavol Breslik Concert with Adriana Kučerová, West Side Story/Candide), The Leoš Janáček International Music Festival (Adam Plachetka Gala Concert) and The Košice Music Spring Festival. 

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He has also collaborated with a number of orchestras - the Prague Philharmonic, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Pilsen Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, 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. 

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From 2019 to 2021 he served as 1st Kapllmeister at the Aalto Musiktheater und Filharmonie Essen, where he staged Medea (A. Reimann), Ring an einem Abend (R. Wagner), a revival of Tosca (G. Puccini), Carmen (G. Bizet) and other performances and concerts.

 

In 2021, he made his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper Festival in Munich with Dvořák's Rusalka with extraordinary success. 

 

He conducted a gala concert to celebrate Eva Urbanová's life anniversary at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre and a concert performance of Dvořák's Rusalka at the Jarmila Novotná Festival in Liteň.

 

Since September 2021 he has held the post of chief conductor of the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice. 

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Examples of his other successful collaborations include Verdi's La traviata at the Slovak National Theatre, Weinberger's opera Švanda the piper in Graz or Janáček's Jenůfa at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo, The Cunning Little Vixen at the Bayerische Staatsoper and one of the annual concerts of the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2023. 

 

Since September 2022 he has worked as Music Director of the National Theatre Opera in Prague and Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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In the 2024/2025 season he will make his debut at Staatsoper Berlin Unter den Linden (Janáček - The Makropulos Affair), Semperoper Dresden (Gounod - Romeo et Juliette) and Oper Frankfurt (Janáček - From the House of the Dead). In the following seasons, he will also debut at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bregenzer Festspiele and the Theater an der Wien.

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He has collaborated with renowned artists such as Cornelia Beskow, Susan Bullock, Lise Davidsen, Ermonela Jaho, Jana Kurucová, Elena Maximova, Olga Peretyatko, Rosalind Plowright, Štepánka Pučálková, Nadine Secunde, Elena Tsallagova, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Slávka Zámečníková, Arnold Bezuyen, Pavol Breslik, Pavel Černoch, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Peter Kellner, Tomasz Konieczny, Marek Kozák, Ambrogio Maestri, Štefan Margita, Adam Plachetka, Gustavo Porta, Roberto Saccà, Jiří Vodička, Lukáš Vondráček and many others.