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He graduated in the Presentation and Protection of Cultural Heritage and History at the University of Hradec Králové. After a year of practice in the Náchod Museum, he accompanied the fortress town of Josefov. He also wrote for the zine The Aardvark. He has been a freelance publicist since 2018. He operates on FM waves. He writes for Finmag, Frontman and Full Moon.
Professional work
-Operal and cultural journalist since 1980
-Editor in publishing houses, printed and electronic media
-Director of the OPERA Festival, the largest opera festival in the Czech Republic (1999 - 2001)
-Member of the opera jury of the Thalia Award, announced by the Actors' Association (1998 - now)
-Art-Production Coordinator for the Czech Republic International Music Festival Festival - Prague - Europe (1991 - 1994) under the auspices of the Council of Europe
-Director of the first complete performance of Bohuslav Martinů's operas (1990)
Publishing activity
-Sadie, Stanley, ed .: New Grove Dictionary of Opera. 4 volumes. The Macmillan Press Limited, London 1992 - 94. (contributor)
-Hostomská, Anna, Havlíková, Helena and others: Opera Guide. 8th and next edition, Svoboda, Prague 1995.
-Regler-Bellinger, Brigitte and Others: The Great Encyclopedia of Opera. Supplements to the Czech edition Helena Havlíková and Jitka Ludvová. Mladá fronta, Prague 1996.
-Havlíková, Helena: Catalog of Czech Music and Drama. Dilia, Prague 1983. Also English, German and Russian versions.
-Dalhaus, Karl, ed .: Pipers Opernenzyklopädie. 8 volumes, Piper GmbH, Munich, Zurich 1986-1997. (contributor)
-Hundreds of articles on opera and media in Czech and foreign newspapers, magazines (especially Lidové noviny, Harmonie, Hudební rozhledy, Svět a divadlo, Czech Music, Opéra International, Opera), hundreds of radio programs, appearances at international and national conferences, workshops, seminars, press conferences
He has been working in the music industry and the media for almost 30 years. He started as a sports and cultural editor at Czech Radio Pilsen and the regional press. In 1991, he co-founded the Rock Report magazine, which was later published under the name REPORT. He was also at the birth of the Žebřík Music Awards, of which he is still the director. In addition to running the online magazine iREPORT, he is involved in the jury of the Czech YouTube Fest, collaborates with a number of (not only music) projects and presents Music Tips iREPORT.cz on television.
He is the editor-in-chief of the Czech Radio music stations, ie D major and Jazz. He studied music and Czech at the Faculty of Education, Charles University, where he also obtained a Ph.D. He joined the radio in 1991 as a music publicist, then he was the head of the Classical Music Editor, the music dramaturg of the Vltava station and in 2001-2016 its editor-in-chief, in 2017 the chief producer of music. In 2005, on his initiative, the first digital station in the Czech Republic, Czech Radio in D major, which broadcasts classical music, was established. He prepared author's programs for the Vltava, especially educational Da capo, music programs for the Euphonia cycles, Telefonotéka etc. He is a composer of classical music, choirmaster and conductor, moderates concerts, writes screenplays for Czech Television. He teaches at the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University.
In parallel with art and technical training, he worked at the Prague National Theater in 2004–2008 as a lecturer in dramaturgy and PR opera. From 2008 to 2010, he was a member of the team of the media department of the DILIA agency as a clerk and coordinator of foreign relations. From the 2010/2011 season to the 2014/2015 season, he was the dramaturg of the opera of the Moravian-Silesian National Theater, where he participated in the preparation of opera and concert projects, moderated discussions with artists and co-formed the overall media image of the opera ensemble. At the same time, in 2013–2014 he was the head of the artistic administration of the Opera of the National Theater in Prague. He has been collaborating with the Musical Theater Union since 2003: in 2004–2010 he was a member of the committee, in 2007, 2009 and 2011 he was a member of the preparatory team of the OPERA festival, in 2007–2011 he was secretary of the annual Young Singers Exchange.
He has published in the magazines Harmonie, Hudební rozhledy, Divadelní noviny, Svět a divadlo, on the portals Scena.cz and Opera Plus. He has been cooperating with Czech Radio Vltava since 2011 - he first prepared several opera programs, and since the summer of 2015 he has been working regularly on the program Mozaika. In 2015, he participated as the editor-in-chief on a 3CD set with a recording of Antonín Dvořák's opera Armid, which was co-produced by the National Theater of Moravia-Silesia and Czech Radio Vltava. In recent years, he has also prepared several explanatory texts for the Supraphon CD (Antonín Dvořák: Čert a Káča, Bedřich Smetana: Hubička) and Radioservis (Adam Plachetka's profile CD LIVE and ARIAS). His interests (apart from radio) include good opera, good music from the French Romantic period and good wine.
He appreciates the sincerity, correctness and all his great colleagues, whom he has been able to meet in Mozaica so far.
Since 2004 Anthony has been involved in the production of live events as a promoter in France, Canada and the Czech Republic. He has a master in performing arts management. After working for the #1 concert producer Live Nation in Toronto, he moved back to Europe and accepted a job offer in Prague, where he first worked as a consultant and in-house promoter for the O2 arena and then founded Fource Entertainment – a concert promoting company based in Prague running since September 2011. Since then, Fource has promoted numerous shows such as Passenger, Gramatik, Mac Miller, Imagine Dragons, Disclosure or alt-J, along with other events like Overtone festival launched in August 2015 as well as providing talent buying or consulting services for other interesting events like Fingers Up festival.