Bogdan Volkov is a Germany based operatic tenor. Volkov is the winner of the second-place prize at Plácido Domingo's

Operalia, The World Opera Competition Plácido Domingo's Operalia, The World Opera Competition is an annual international competition for opera singers. Founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo, the competition's varied prizes have been given to known artists such as Joseph Calleja, Rola ...

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in 2016French Soprano Elsa Dreisig
and South Korean tenor Keonwoo Kim Win Top Prizes in Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition">Elsa Dreisig">French Soprano Elsa Dreisig
and South Korean tenor Keonwoo Kim Win Top Prizes in Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition, Opera News, July 25, 2016. and came in first place at the Paris Opera Competition in 2015. Bogdan Volkov is one of today's most sought-after young lyric tenors of his generation, acclaimed on stages of the world’s major opera houses as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Royal Opera House in London, Metropolitan Opera in New York and Vienna State Opera. Highlights in recent years include The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie in Brussels and Eugene Onegin at the Vienna State Opera, both directed by

Dmitri Tcherniakov Dmitri Tcherniakov (russian: Дмитрий Черняков) (born May 11, 1970) is a Russian theatre director, and winner of numerous national Golden Mask theatre awards, who works with many European opera houses. Biography Tcherniakov was bor ...

, and Cosi fan tutte at the 100th

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, directed by

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. With the role of Ferrando Bogdan made his

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debut in 2021 and later also at the

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. Other exciting debuts during the 2021/22 season included Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at Bavarian State Opera and Alfredo in La traviata at the

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in Amsterdam. The 22/23 season sees 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 can also be heard at the Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival as Fenton in Falstaff, and at the Opéra national du Rhin in Thcherniakov’s production of The Tale of Tsar Saltan. On the concert platform, he will perform Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Budapest, Mozart’s Requiem at the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg, as well as a solo recital in Mulhouse. Bogdan made his first US appearance at the

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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

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. He studied at

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and graduated from Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. He went on to be a member of the Young Artists Program of the

Bolshoi Theatre The Bolshoi Theatre ( rus, Большо́й теа́тр, r=Bol'shoy teatr, literally "Big Theater", p=bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈatər) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and ope ...

, and later joined their Ensemble, performing a vaste repertory of different roles. Since 2022, Bogdan has been a member of

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where he made his house debut in 2019 in Betrothal in a Monastery, under the baton of Maestro

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. Among the awards Bogdan has received are the First Prize and Audience Prize at the Paris Opera Competition in 2015, and Second Prize at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in 2016.

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# https://www.bogdanvolkov.com/ # https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/a/bogdan-volkov {{DEFAULTSORT:Volkov, Bogdan Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Ukrainian operatic tenors 21st-century Ukrainian male opera singers