Iván Ayón-Rivas

Iván was born in 1993 in Perù. He has studied opera under the tutelage of María Eloisa Aguirre, Juan Diego Florez, Ernesto Palacio, Vincenzo Scalera, Maurizio Colaccichi and Luigi Alva. He is currently studying in Italy with baritone Roberto Servile.

In 2013 he won the second prize at the Peruvian National competition for Opera Singers, and in 2014 he sang in many solo recitals in Perù. In November 2015 he won the third edition of the Concorso Internazionale di Canto “Premio Etta Limiti”. He sang in Mercadante’s Francesca Rimini at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca conducted by Fabio Luisi, where he came back the following year in Un giorno di regno

Among his recent and future engagements: La Traviata in Venice, Rimini, Florence, Rome, Falstaff in Turin, L’Arlesiana in Berlin, Il Corsaro in Piacenza, I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Rome, and at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, L’elisir d’amore in Las Palmas and Bari, Rigoletto in Florence under the baton of Fabio Luisi, in Turin and in Palermo directed by John Turturro, in Rome under Daniele Gatti, in Venice, Tokyo and in Liège, L’elisir d’amore in Bari and Las Palmas, Don Pasquale and Gianni Schicchi at the Liceu in Barcelona, Eugene Onegin at the Wiener Staatsoper, Faust in Venice, Les contes d’Hoffmann in Sydney and his debut with Macbeth at La Scala.

He won First Prize, the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize of Zarzuela and the Rolex Prize of the Audience at the Operalia Competition 2021. This is his debut with Opera Rara.

Iván Ayón Rivas’s performance in Mercadante’s Il proscritto is generously supported by Islée Oliva Salinas.