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.

 

Recent seasons have brought him major successes as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Wiener Staatsoper, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Alfredo (La Traviata) at the Staatsoper Berlin, Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Staatsoper Hamburg, Prince Guidon (The Tale of Tsar Saltan) at the Teatro Real and La Monnaie in Brussels in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production, and Ferrando in Christof Loy’s new staging of Così fan tutte, presented at the centenary edition of the Salzburg Festival.

 

The summer of 2024 was marked by his acclaimed portrayal of Prince Myshkin in the multiawarded 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 and awarded Best Vocal Performance (Leading Role) by the German magazine Der Opernfreund, and recognized as Singer of the Year by Opernwelt.

 

A graduate of the Glier Kyiv Institute of Music and the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, Bogdan Volkov joined the Young Artists Program of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, later becoming a member of its ensemble. In 2022 and 2023 he was part of the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera, where he had 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.