Bogdan Volkov is one of the most sought-after lyric tenors of his generation, and makes regular guest appearances at leading international opera houses. In the 2023/24 season his appearances have included Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) in a new production of Puccini’s Il trittico, Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Vienna State Opera, Tsarevich Guidon in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie in Brussels, Alfredo (La traviata) at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Alfredo at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Don Ottavio at the Berlin State Opera.
Engagements in the 2022/23 season included Nemorino at the Berlin and Vienna State Operas, the Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Lensky in Munich, Fenton (Falstaff) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Tsarevich Guidon at the Opéra national du Rhin. In concert he performed Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Budapest and gave a recital in Mulhouse. He appeared at the 2023 Salzburg Festival as Fenton and in Mozart’s Requiem.
Highlights of past seasons have included Ferrando in Salzburg, at La Scala, Milan, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette) at the Met, Don Ottavio at the Palm Beach Opera and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at the Los Angeles Opera.
Bogdan Volkov studied singing at the Glier Kyiv Institute of Music. In 2013 he completed his training at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. He went on to participate in the training programme of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, subsequently joining its ensemble. In 2022 and 2023 he was a member of the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera, where he previously made his debut in 2019 as Don Antonio in Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery under Daniel Barenboim.
Bogdan Volkov won the first and audience prizes at the Paris Opera Competition in 2015 and second prize in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition in 2016.
