Bogdan Volkov

Biography

Born in Torez, Donetsk region (Ukraine).
Bogdan Volkov studied under Tamara Kowal at the Faculty of Musical Art at the Glier Kiev Institute of Music which he graduated with honors in 2012. In 2013 he completed his vocal studies graduating with honors from the Tchaikovsky Kiev National Academy of Music where his voice teacher was Alexander Dyachenko.

In 2013-15 was a member of the Young Artists Program of the Bolshoi Theatre. In October 2013 he made his Bolshoi Theatre debut in Be in the Mood for Opera performance as the Tenor. 
In 2016 he joined the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.

Since September 2018 he has been a Novaya Opera Company soloist.
His repertoire there include the roles of Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Lykov (The Tsar’s Bride) and Tsar Berendey (The Snow Maiden).

Repertoire

At the Bolshoi
Tenor (performance Be in the Mood for Opera)
Parpignol (La Boheme)
Royal Herald (Don Carlo)
Mozart (Mozart and Salieri)
Lykov (The Tsar’s Bride)
Remendado (Carmen)
Simpleton (Boris Godunov)
Raimond (The Maid of Orleans)
Kai (The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Chaplitsky (The Queen of Spades)
Vladimir Igorevich (Prince Igor)
Don Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Almerik (Iolanta)
Tenor II (Stravinsky’s Renard in the performance The Fables of the Vixen, the Duckling and Balda)
Lensky (Eugene Onegin)
Local nihilist (Katerina Izmailova)
Edmond/ Lamplighter (Manon Lescaut)
The Novice (Billy Budd)
Prince Myshkin (The Idiot)
Tsar Berendey (The Snow Maiden)
Ferrando (Così fan tutte)

Tours

In 2017 Bogdan Volkov took part in the production of Weinberg’s Idiot at the Bolshoi Theatre, singing the title role.
In July 2017, he sang Lensky in Eugene Onegin concert performance on the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company tour to Aix-en-Profence and Savonlinna Opera Festivals (conductor Tugan Sokhiev).

In the season 2017/18 he made significant international debuts at Glyndebourne Festival as Ferrando (Così fan tutte), and Metropolitan Opera as Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette by Gounod; conductor Placido Domingo).

Among engagements of 2019: Lykov (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride) at the Shalyapin Opera Festival in Kazan, Don Ottavio (Mozart’s Don Giovanni) at the Palm Beach Opera; Don Antonio (Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery) at the Staatsoper Berlin (director Dmitry Tchernyakov, conductor Daniel Barenboim), and Tsarevich Guidon (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan) at the Théâtre de La Monnaie (also Tchernyakov’s production).
In September 2019 he performed the part of Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky (director Simon McBurney, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre).
In 2020 he made his Salzburg Festival debut, performing the part of Ferrando in new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte (director Christof Loy, conductor Joana Mallwitz).