Ivo Hrachovec

To be an opera singer and have a professional history like that of Beno Blachut is certainly a remarkable coincidence. Both were trained in Ostrava to be foundry workers and only then began devoting themselves to singing. Today’s guest of the Prague State Opera then graduated from the Ostrava Conservatory not only in the field of solo singing, but also in clarinet, and continued his vocal studies in the artistic-pedagogical departement of the university in Ostrava. He then sang not only in opera houses of the Czech Republic, but also in concerts in Germany, Poland, and Japan. In recent years he has also partecipated in several international singing competitions both at home and abroad – in Slovakia as well as in Lecca, Italy, and Enna, Sicily.