Bogdan Volkov is an operatic tenor. He won the second prize at Plácido Domingo's Operalia, The World Opera Competition in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2016[1] and came in first place at the Paris Opera Competition in 2015.
Born in Ukraine, Volkov is an alumnus of the R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music and the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. He has established a presence as a regular artist at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow from 2016 to 2018 after partaking in a training programme offered by the theatre. During the years 2022 and 2023, he served as a member of the ensemble at the Berlin State Opera. In 2019, he had previously made his debut at the same opera house in the role of Don Antonio in Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.[2][3]
He has been acclaimed on stages of the world's major opera houses including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Royal Opera House in London, Metropolitan Opera in New York and Vienna State Opera.
A few highlights of Volkov's career include: The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie in Brussels and Eugene Onegin at the Vienna State Opera, both directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, and Cosi fan tutte at the 100th Salzburg Festival, directed by Christof Loy. With the role of Ferrando Bogdan he made his Teatro alla Scala debut in 2021 and later at the Royal Opera House.[2]
Other debuts during the 2021/22 season included Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at the Bavarian State Opera and Alfredo in La traviata at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.
The 2022/23 season saw Bogdan performing in L’elisir d’amore at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and at the Vienna State Opera, as Chevalier de la Force in Le dialogues des Carmélites at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and as Lensky in Eugene Onegin at Bavarian State Opera and La Monnaie. He also performed at the Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival as Fenton in Falstaff, and at the Opéra national du Rhin in Tcherniakov's production of The Tale of Tsar Saltan.
Bogdan made his first US appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in 2018 as Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette and appeared as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Palm Beach Opera and Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Los Angeles Opera.
In the 2023/24 season, Bogdan Volkov performed in Trittico, L‘elisir d‘amore, Don Giovanni, and Eugene Onegin at the Vienna State Opera. He also performed in The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, La Traviata at the Dutch National Opera and Bayerische Staatsoper, Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper Berlin, and Cosi fan tutte at the Bayerische Staatsoper. In the summer of 2024, he will perform the role of Prince Myshkin in The Idiot by Weinberg at the Salzburg Festival.
Bogdan has received the First Prize and Audience Prize at the Paris Opera Competition in 2015, and Second Prize at Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition in 2016.[3]
