Bogdan Volkov is one of the most sought-after lyric tenors of his generation, and makes regular guest appearances at leading international opera houses, including the Vienna, Berlin and Bavarian State Operas, La Scala, Milan, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
In the 2024/25 season he appeared at the Vienna State Opera as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte), and sang Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Alfredo (La traviata) at the Berlin State Opera, Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Hamburg State Opera and Lensky and Tsarevich Guidon in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Teatro Real. He also appeared in concert at the Shostakovich Festival 2025 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In the 2023/24 season his appearances included Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) in a new production of Puccini’s Il trittico, Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) and Alfredo (La traviata) at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Ferrando and Alfredo at the Bavarian State Opera and Don Ottavio at the Berlin State Opera. He had especial success in the role of Prince Myshkin in Weinberg’s The Idiot under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the Salzburg Festival 2024.
Earlier highlights included performances as Tsarevich Guidon at La Monnaie in Brussels, as Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Vienna State Opera, and as Ferrando (Così fan tutte) in his 2021 debuts at La Scala, Milan, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in 2020 in Christof Loy’s new production at the Salzburg Festival. He also sang Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette) at the Met, Don Ottavio at the Palm Beach Opera and Tamino 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 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.
