Bogdan Volkov is one of the most sought-after lyric tenors of his generation and appears regularly at leading international opera houses.
His engagements in the 2025/26 season included Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Vienna State Opera, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at the Berlin State Opera, Lensky at the Paris Opéra, Vaudémont (Iolanta) at the Opéra de Rouen and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Zurich Opera House.
Following his return to the Salzburg Festival as Ferrando, in the 2026/27 season Bogdan Volkov will sing Don Ottavio at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) at the Vienna State Opera, Kudrjaš (Káťa Kabanová) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Levko in Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night at the Opéra de Lyon and the tenor solos in Haydn’s The Creation with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights of recent seasons have included Don Ottavio, Ferrando and Lensky at the Vienna State Opera, Tamino and Alfredo (La traviata) at the Berlin State Opera, Lensky at the Teatro Real and the Hamburg State Opera and Tsarevich Guidon in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Teatro Real and La Monnaie in Brussels. Bogdan Volkov made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2020 in Christof Loy’s new production of Così fan tutte. In 2024 he had great success in Salzburg as Prince Myshkin in Weinberg’s The Idiot, in a production directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski and conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
Bogdan Volkov studied singing at the Glier Kyiv Institute of Music. In 2013 he completed his studies 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 had 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. In 2025 he was named Singer of the Year by the magazine Opernwelt.
