Conductor Marek Šedivý (born in 1987 in Prague) has been Music Director of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava since 2020, where he has conducted a number of new productions: The Tempest (Z. Fibich), Masked Ball (G. Verdi), Tosca (G. Puccini), The Kiss, The Bartered Bride, The Two Widows, The Devil’s Wall (B. Smetana) and Tannhäuser (R. Wagner).

From 2018 to 2022 he was the principal guest conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 2016 to 2018 he was the chief conductor of the Silesian Theatre in Opava, where he conducted operas Cavalleria rusticana (P. Mascagni), Rusalka (A. Dvořák), Falstaff (G. Verdi) and The Cunning Little Vixen (L. Janáček). In December 2022, he made his debut at the National Theatre in Prague with a performance of The barber of Seville (G. Rossini) and was subsequently invited to collaborate on a new production of The Marriage of Figaro (W. A. Mozart).