Named Singer of the Year by Opernwelt and nominated for the International Opera Awards in the Readers’ Award category, Bogdan Volkov is one of the most sought-after lyric tenors of his generation, appearing regularly at leading international opera houses.

 

In the 2025/26 season his engagements include Falstaff at La Monnaie, Don Giovanni, Dialogues des Carmélites and Eugene Onegin at the Wiener Staatsoper, Die Zauberflöte at the Staatsoper Berlin, Eugene Onegin at the Opéra National de Paris, Iolanta at the Opéra de Rouen and Così fan tutte at the Opernhaus Zürich and the Salzburg Festival.

 

Recent seasons have established him in major Mozart and lyric roles, including Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Wiener Staatsoper, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Alfredo (La Traviata) at the Staatsoper Berlin, and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at both the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Staatsoper Hamburg. A particular highlight has been his portrayal of Prince Guidon in the award-winning production of The Tale of Tsar Saltan, in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging at La Monnaie (2019), later presented at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and at the Teatro Real in Madrid, and Ferrando in Christof Loy’s staging of Così fan tutte at the centenary Salzburg Festival in 2020.

 

The summer of 2024 was marked by his acclaimed portrayal of Prince Myshkin in the award-winning premiere of Weinberg’s The Idiot, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, at the Salzburg Festival. For this role, he was nominated for the Austrian Music Theatre Prize, named Discovery of the Year, awarded Best Vocal Performance (Leading Role) by the German magazine Der Opernfreund, and recognized as Singer of the Year by Opernwelt.

 

In January 2026, Volkov made his debut at the Opéra National de Paris as Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, in a new production directed by Ralph Fiennes and conducted by Semyon Bychkov. His performance drew significant critical acclaim and widespread attention in the international press.

 

Born in Ukraine, Bogdan Volkov studied at the R. Glière Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music and graduated from the Ukrainian National Academy of Music. He was a member of the Bolshoi Theatre’s Young Artists Program from the 2013/14 to the 2015/16 seasons and subsequently joined the ensemble, where he was a member from 2016 to 2018. In 2022 and 2023 he was part of the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera, where he made his debut in 2019 as Don Antonio in Prokofiev’s The 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 at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition in 2016.