Education
Born in Prague, Hůlka studied at the master class of Czechoslovakian tenor Zdenek Jankovsky at the Prague Conservatory and then shortly at HAMU in the class of Magdalena Hajossyova before embarking on an opera career in the early 1990s.
Born in Prague, Hůlka studied at the master class of Czechoslovakian tenor Zdenek Jankovsky at the Prague Conservatory and then shortly at HAMU in the class of Magdalena Hajossyova before embarking on an opera career in the early 1990s.
He has released several recordings on the Electric and Music Industries label. He first drew wide acclaim portraying the title role in Karel Svoboda"s 1995 musical Dracula. He has since appeared in numerous musical productions in Prague, portraying such roles as Javert in Claude-Michel Schönberg"s Les Misérables and the title role in Frank Wildhorn"s Jekyll & Hyde among others
As an opera singer, Hůlka has performed leading roles at the Estates Theatre, the Hudební divadlo Karlín where he also sang under the direction internationally acclaimed conductor Alexander Frey, the J. K. Tyl Theatre, the Liberec Theatre, the Městské divadlo Ústí nad Labem, and the Prague National Theatre.
Among the roles he has portrayed on stage are Escamilio in Georges Bizet"s Carmen, Kalina in Bedřich Smetana"s The Secret, Silvio in Ruggero Leoncavallo"s Pagliacci, and the title roles in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"s Don Giovanni and Mozart"s The Marriage of Figaro. In 1999 Hůlka made his first film appearance in the feature film Z pekla štěstí.
He appeared in the film"s sequel, Z pekla štěstí 2, in 2001.