The tenor Iván Ayón-Rivas was born in 1993 in Peru. He has studied opera under María Eloísa Aguirre González, Juan Diego Flórez, Ernesto Palacio, Vincenzo Scalera, Maurizio Colacicchi and Luigi Alva, and is currently studying in Italy with the baritone Roberto Servile.

In 2013 he won Second Prize at the Peruvian National Competition for Opera Singers, and the following year he gave many solo recitals in Peru. In 2015 he won the Concorso Internazionale di Canto ‘Premio Etta e Paolo Limiti’, going on to sing in Mercadante’s Francesca da Rimini at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, conducted by Fabio Luisi; he returned the following year in Verdi’s Un giorno di regno.

In 2021 he won First Prize in the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize of Zarzuela and the Rolex Audience Prize at the Operalia Competition. Recent and future engagements include the lead tenor roles in La traviata in Venice, Rimini, Florence and 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 Fabio Luisi), Liège (under Daniele Gatti), Turin, Palermo, Rome, Venice and Tokyo, Don Pasquale and Gianni Schicchi at the Liceu in Barcelona, Eugene Onegin and Otello at the Vienna Staatsoper, Faust in Venice and Les contes d’Hoffmann in Sydney and Venice. He made his debut at La Scala as Malcolm in Macbeth.

For Opera Rara, he sang the role of Arturo Murray in Mercadante’s Il proscritto, which won the 2023 International Opera Award for Best Opera Recording.