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 2022/23 season he sang Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) at the Berlin and Vienna State Operas, Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Bavarian State Opera. He also returned to the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Fenton (Falstaff) and appeared as Tsarevich Guidon in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Opéra national du Rhin. On the concert stage he most recently appeared in Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Budapest and in a recital in Mulhouse.
Highlights of past seasons include Tsarevich Guidon at La Monnaie in Brussels, Lensky in Vienna and Ferrando in Christof Loy’s new production of Così fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival. In the 2021/22 season he made house debuts as Ferrando at La Scala, Milan, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He also sang Nemorino in Munich and Alfredo (La traviata) at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.
Other engagements include Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette) at the Met, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) 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 Do-mingo’s Operalia competition in 2016 in Guadalajara.
