Bogdan Volkov is one of the most sought-after lyric tenors of his generation and regularly appears on the stages of the world’s leading opera houses.

At the 2024 Salzburg Summer Festival, Bogdan performed the role of Prince Myshkin in Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera l’Idiot, a performance that earned him international acclaim.

In the 2024–2025 season, he can be heard in La Traviata, Don Giovanni, and Eugene Onegin.

During the 2023/24 season, his performances included Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) in a new production of Puccini’s Il trittico, Nemorino (L’Elisir d’amore), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Vienna State Opera, Tsarevich Gvidon in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie in Brussels, Alfredo (La Traviata) at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Alfredo at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and Don Ottavio at the Berlin State Opera.

Among his engagements in the 2022/23 season were Nemorino at both the Berlin and Vienna State Operas, the Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Lensky in Munich, Fenton (Falstaff) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Tsarevich Gvidon at the Opéra national du Rhin. In concert, he performed Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Budapest and gave a recital in Mulhouse. He also appeared at the 2023 Salzburg Festival as Fenton and in Mozart’s Requiem.

Highlights from previous seasons include Ferrando in Salzburg, at La Scala in Milan and at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette) at the Met, Don Ottavio at Palm Beach Opera, and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at Los Angeles Opera.

Bogdan Volkov studied voice at the Glier Institute of Music in Kyiv. In 2013, he completed his training at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. He then joined the Young Artists Programme of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, later becoming a member of the company. In 2022 and 2023, he was part of the ensemble at the Berlin State Opera, where he had made his debut in 2019 as Don Antonio in Prokofiev’s The Duenna under the baton of Daniel Barenboim.

Bogdan Volkov won First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Paris Opera Competition in 2015 and Second Prize at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in 2016.