Bogdan Volkov

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Bogdan Volkov is a Ukrainian 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 was a regular artist at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow from 2016 to 2018 after partaking in a training program offered by the theatre. During 2022 and 2023, he served as a member of the ensemble at the Berlin State Opera. In 2019, he had 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]

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.^{[citation needed][4]}

Volkov has performed in 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]

Volkov 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]

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