Eliana Baion

Eliana Baion sang in the gala concert of 7 October 2004 that brought Raina Kabaivanska's Sofia masterclass to its close, with the Sofia Philharmonic and Alesia Miljutina, Vesna Ginovska, Anna Gemedjieva and Yanitza Nesheva also on the programme. Eliana Bayon is an Argentinian lyric soprano born in San Rafael in the province of Mendoza. She graduated with honours from the Instituto Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and later took a diploma cum laude at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence; she also studied English teaching. Her repertoire runs from baroque and contemporary opera to La boheme, Turandot and Don Giovanni, and she has sung at the Teatro Colon, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the Venice Biennale. She teaches vocal master classes in Argentina, Spain and Italy. Eliana Bayón is an Argentine opera singer born in San Rafael, where she spent her early childhood before pursuing musical training in Mendoza. Her stage work includes Madama Cortese in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims in Oviedo in 2006, in a production directed by Mariame Clément. In a 2014 interview, she described an international career that had taken her to theatres in Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, New York and Buenos Aires.