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 2025/26 season his engagements include Don Giovanni, Dialogues des Carmelites and Eugene Onegin at the Wiener Staatsoper, Die Zauberflote at the Staatsoper Berlin, Eugene Onegin at the Opera National de Paris, Iolanta at the Opera de Rouen and Così fan tutte at the Opernhaus in Zurich.

Highlights of the past seasons include Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Wiener Staatsoper, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Alfredo (La Traviata) at the Staatsoper Unterden Linden, Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Teatro Real and at the Staatsoper Hamburg, Prince Guidon (The Tale of Tsar Saltan) at the Teatro Real and at La Monnaie in Brussels, Lensky in Vienna and Ferrando in Christof Loy’s new production of Così fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival. The 2023/24season was remarkable for the role of Prince Myshkin in the premiere of Weinberg’s The Idiot,directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski and conducted by Mirga Grazinitet-Tyla at the Salzburg Festival.

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 young artists 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 the baton of 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 Guadalajara.