OLEG VOLKOV
bass-baritone
RECENT AND UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
- Monterone in Verdi's Rigoletto, at Philharmonie de Paris (2026);
- Dulcamara in a French adaptation of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (2025);
- Charles Bovary in Noben's Bovary, at the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (2025);
- Viel Arabe/Veilleur de Nuit/Vieux Matelot/Père de la Jeunesse in Martinů's Juliette ou la Clé des Songes, at the Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur (2025);
- Marchese d'Obigny in Verdi's La Traviata, at the Philharmonie de Paris (2024);
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- Don Alfonso in Mozart's Così fan Tutte, at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (2024);
- Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, with the Orchestre Universitaire de Strasbourg (2024);
- Fauteuil/Arbre in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, at Opéra de Monte-Carlo (2023) and Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg (2022);
- Maximilien in Bernstein's Candide (2023), Erster Geharnischter/Zweiter Priest in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (2023), Sam in Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti (2022) and Huppe Fasciée in H. Moody's Les Rêveurs de la Lune (2022), at the Opéra national du Rhin.
BIOGRAPHY
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The young bass-baritone Oleg Volkov was a member of the opera studio of Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, from 2021 to 2023. In that theatre, he performed the roles of Fauteuil and Arbre in Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Hoopoe in Howard Moody’s Lunar Lake, Priest and Armoured Man in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Maximilian and Sam in Bernstein’s Candide and Trouble in Tahiti, respectively, and was an understudy for the leading role and the roles of Reindeer and Clock in Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen. Since September 2023, Oleg has been Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. The Daniel Ferro Vocal Program, the Excellenz Labor Oper course, and the International Academy for French Music Michel Plasson strongly influenced and helped to develop Oleg’s musical interests.
In the 2023/24 season, Oleg Volkov started with concerts at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, such as an Opera Gala and a Mozart Anthology concert. With the Brussels Philharmonic and Flemish Radio Choir, he performed the solo part in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, at the Flagey Cultural Centre. At the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Oleg reprised the roles of Arbre and Fauteuil in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, for the centenary of H.R.H. Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Then, he debuted in the role of Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen, with the Orchestre Universitaire de Strasbourg. To close the season, he sang Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte, by the QEMC, at the Koningin Elisabethsaal Antwerpen.
His 2024/25 season include Marchese d’Obigny in Verdi’s La Traviata, at the Philharmonie de Paris; his house debut at the Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur, as Viel Arabe/Veilleur de Nuit/Vieux Matelot/Père de la Jeunesse in B. Martinů’s Juliette ou la Clé des Songes; the role of Charles Bovary in Noben’s Bovary, by the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, at the Théâtre National de Bruxelles, and Dulcamara in Un Elixir d’Amour, a French version of the homonym opera by Gaetano Donizetti, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
Among highlights of Oleg Volkov’s 2025/26 season, he will sing Monterone in Verdi’s Rigoletto, at the Philharmonie de Paris.