Iván Ayón-Rivas Tenor

Born in Peru in 1993, Iván Ayón Rivas studied opera under María Eloisa Aguirre at the Peruvian National Conservatory of Music. He then continued his studies with Juan Diego Florez, Ernesto Palacio, Vincenzo Scalera, Maurizio Colaccichi and Luigi Alva. He is currently studying in Italy with baritone Roberto Servile. After winning second prize in Peru's national competition for opera singers in 2013, he performed in numerous solo recitals in Peru. In 2014, he made his debut at Ludwigshafen/BASF in a gala with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. In 2015, he won the third edition of the Premio Etta Limiti international singing competition.

He sang in Francesca da Rimini at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca and returned the following year for Un giorno di regno. In recent seasons, he has performed the roles of Alfredo Germont (La Traviata) in Venice, Rimini, Florence and Rome, Fenton (Falstaff) in Turin, Tybalt (Les Capulet et les Montaigu) in Rome, Rodolfo (La Bohème) in Moscow, Sydney, Bari, Turin, Venice, at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and in Santiago de Chile, Nemorino (L'Élixir d'amour) in Las Palmas and Bari, the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) in Florence, Turin, Palermo, Rome, Venice, Tokyo, Liège and Las Palmas, Ruggero Lastouc (La Rondine) at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Lenski (Eugène Onéguine) in Vienna, the title role in Faust in Venice, Malcolm (Macbeth) in Milan, the title role in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Venice and Sydney.

He won first prize, the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer de la zarzuela prize and the Rolex Audience Prize at the 2021 Operalia Plácido Domingo competition. In the 2024-2025 season, his roles include Alfredo Germont and Arvino (The Lombards at the First Crusade) at Madrid's Teatro Real and the Duke of Mantua at the Tiroler Fespiele Erl.

Debut at the Opéra national de Paris