Robert Jindra

Robert Jindra studied classical singing at the Prague Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1999. Subsequently, he studied conducting, graduating in 2003 with the Prague Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. Since 1999 he has regularly collaborated with the Children’s Opera Prague. Since September 2000 he has worked as a pedagogue at the Prague Conservatory, where he prepared several chamber opera productions.

In 2001 he prepared and conducted for the State Opera Prague the world premieres of the operas by the contemporary composer Vladimír Wimmer The Knight and Death and Jelizaweta Bam. At the Young Prague 2004 festival he conducted Stabat Mater (J. K. Vaňhal) with the Kühn’s Children’s Choir and the Prague Symphony Chamber Orchestra. He has collaborated with Praga sinfonietta, Virtuosi Pragenses and Prague’s National Theatre Orchestra. Since January 2004 he has worked as an assistant conductor at the National Theatre and has participated in the staging of the operas Vanda (Dvořák), The Secret (Smetana), Don Pasquale (Donizetti), Aida and Falstaff (Verdi), La fanciulla del West (Puccini) and Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky). Since the 2005/2006 season he has also worked here as a conductor (Don Giovanni, The Secret).

In 2006 he began collaborating with Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf-Duisburg as assistant to the conductor John Fiore. He participated in the preparation of Strauss’s Elektra, Janáček’s Jenůfa, Dvořák’s Rusalka and he has been invited to work on Janáček’s operas Katya Kabanova, The Cunning Little Vixen, From the House of the Dead and The Makropulos Case.

Update: April 2009