Ivan Thirion

Born in Belgium in 1990, the young baritone was already admitted to the Royal Conservatory in Brussels in 2007, where he studied with Belgian baritone Marcel Vanaud and where he took his bachelor degree in voice in 2012. After that he moved to Haute école de Musique de Genève where he obtained his master’s degree in voice with Swiss Baritone Gilles Cachemaille. He made his operatic debut on the stage of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège with Papageno in Mozart‘s Die Zauberflöte. Following his sucess, the theatre engaged him in 2009 as l‘Ogre in Aubert‘s La Forêt Bleue, and as Gazella in Donizetti‘s Lucrezia Borgia alongside with June Anderson and Ismael Jordi. During the 2010-11 season, he toured Belgium as Schaunard in a production of La Bohème with Théâtre du Tumulte, sang Tomaso in U