Robert Jindra was born in 1977 in Prague, where he studied singing and conducting at the local conservatory.
Jindra has been the Music Director of the National Theatre in Prague since September 2022. From 2021 to 2024 he was the Chief Conductor of the Košice State Philharmonic Orchestra. As a guest conductor, he appeared at the Staatsoper Munich (Rusalka), Oper Frankfurt (From the House of the Dead), Staatsoper Berlin (The Makropulos Affair), Semperoper Dresden (Roméo et Juliette), Graz Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Norwegian Opera in Oslo (Ariadne auf Naxos, Jenufa), and the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava (La Juive, The Bartered Bride, La Traviata).
Jindra has worked with such ensembles as the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic, State Philharmonic Košice, and Essen Philharmonic, among others. From the 2018/2019 to the 2020/ 2021 season, Robert Jindra was 1st Kapellmeister at the Aalto Musiktheater and Philharmonie Essen, where he conducted the opera Medea (Reimann), Ring in One Evening (Wagner), Tosca (Puccini), Carmen (Bizet), and other works with an extraordinary success.
Engagements in the current season include his debuts at the Wiener Staatsoper (Rusalka) and the Bregenzer Festspiele (Broucek), and his return to the Semperoper Dresden with Roméo et Juliette.
''