Mindia is an opera in three acts composed by Otar Taktakishvili to a libretto in Georgian by Revas Tabukashvili.

Based on the poem The Snake-eater by Vazha-Pshavela, it premiered on 23 July 1961 at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre.

[2] He chose as his subject Mindia, a hero of Georgian folk myth and the protagonist of The Snake-eater, an epic poem by Vazha-Pshavela written in 1901.

[2] Considered Vazha's greatest work, The Snake-eater tells the story of Mindia who consumes a snake and is suddenly conferred with the power to understand the voices of nature.

[2] As musicologist Maia Sigua points out, the personal "differentness" and pantheism inherent in both the poem and the opera were potentially dangerous themes during the Soviet era.

Instead of dying, he finds that he has now been conferred with magic powers which allow him to understand the voices of nature–plants, animals, and even waterfalls and mountains.

Girls from Mindia's village, including his sweetheart Msia, find him sleeping in a field.