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Born 17 February 1993.

Peruvian tenor.

Iván Ayón-Rivas trained at the National Conservatory of Music in Lima and studied under Maria Eloiss Aguirre Gonzalez, Vincenzo Scalera and Maurizio Colacicchi as well as with three of the great Peruvian tenors of recent years - Luigi Alva, Ernesto Palacio and Juan Diego Flórez. He also studies in Italy with baritone Roberto Servile.

In 2013 he won second prize in the Peruvian National Competition for Opera Singers. He won First Prize, the Placido Domingo Ferrer Zarzuela competition and the audience prize in the 2021 Operalia Competition.

Roles sung frequently include Nemorino L'elisir d'amore (Las Palmas, Bari); Tebaldo I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Rome, Torre del Lago); Duke of Mantua Rigoletto (Florence, Turin, Palermo, Rome, Venice, Tokyo, Liège); Alfredo La traviata (Venice, Rimini, Florence, Rome); Hoffmann Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Sydney, Venice).

Other appearances include Valle d'Itria (Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini, Giocondo Un giorno di regno); Barcelona (Ernesto Don Pasquale, Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi); Piacenza (Corrado Il corsaro); Turin (Fenton Falstaff); Berlin (Federico L'Arlesiana); Vienna (Lensky Eugene Onegin);  Venice (Faust); La Scala Milan (Macduff Macbeth).

He made his British debut at the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival with the company of the Teatro Regio Turin (Rodolfo La bohème).

His recordings include three for Opera Rara: Mercadante (Arturo Murray Il proscritto). Verdi (Gabriele Simon Boccanegra 1857 version); Puccini (Ruggero La rondine 1921 version).