Aleksey Bogdanov is celebrated for his powerful voice and compelling stage presence, earning acclaim at major opera houses and concert halls worldwide. In the 2026/27 season, he makes his debut with The Dallas Opera in a new production of Lohengrin (Telramund) and returns to San Francisco Opera in Simon Boccanegra (Paolo) and Tosca (Scarpia cover), The Atlanta Opera in Silent Night (Lieutenant Horstmayer), and The Metropolitan Opera in Otello (Montano) and La fanciulla del West (Jack Rance cover). On the concert stage, he debuts with the Houston Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s Spring and the Santa Fe Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, and returns to The Florida Orchestra for concert performances of Fidelio (Don Pizarro).
Highlights of recent seasons include debuts with Lyric Opera of Chicago in Salome (Erster Nazarener), The Atlanta Opera in Götterdämmerung (Alberich), San Diego Opera in Carmen (Escamillo), and Pacific Symphony in Das Rheingold (Donner), as well as returns to San Francisco Opera in Rigoletto (Il Conte di Monterone) and The Metropolitan Opera in Arabella (Mandryka cover). He has also appeared with The Metropolitan Opera in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Der Einäugige) and Pique Dame (Tomsky cover), San Francisco Opera in Un ballo in maschera (Renato cover) and Tristan und Isolde (Kurwenal cover), Palm Beach Opera in Roméo et Juliette (Capulet), and The Glimmerglass Festival in The Rake’s Progress (Nick Shadow). Concert engagements have included Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D with the Cathedral Choral Society, Rachmaninoff’s Spring Cantata with The Clarion Choir, and Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy at Carnegie Hall.
Additional operatic highlights include debuts at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Crespel/Luther) and Royal Swedish Opera in La fanciulla del West (Jack Rance). A noted interpreter of Scarpia, Bogdanov has appeared as Scarpia with Palm Beach Opera, Austin Opera, Arizona Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, and Livermore Valley Opera. Other notable performances include Rigoletto (title role) with Nashville Opera and Central City Opera, Madama Butterfly (Sharpless) with Tulsa Opera, Aida (Amonasro) with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Tiefland (Sebastiano) with Sarasota Opera, La fanciulla del West (Jack Rance) with Opera Carolina, and Hérodiade (Vitellius) with Washington Concert Opera. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Boris Godunov (Shchelkalov).
On the concert stage, Bogdanov has performed Verdi’s Requiem with the San Diego Symphony, Colorado Symphony, and The Phoenix Symphony; Boris Godunov (Shchelkalov) with the San Francisco Symphony; Gurre-Lieder (Peasant/Narrator) with the KBS Symphony Orchestra; Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with the Cathedral Choral Society at Washington National Cathedral; Barber’s A Hand of Bridge with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; and Messiah with the Richmond Symphony.
A graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera, Bogdanov performed more than 100 times with the company, appearing in Carmen (Escamillo), Hansel and Gretel (Peter), Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro), Don Giovanni (title role), Così fan tutte (Guglielmo), L’elisir d’amore (Belcore), Madama Butterfly (Sharpless), and Appomattox (George Wallace). He made his debut with The Glimmerglass Festival in Carmen (Escamillo), a signature role he has subsequently performed with The Atlanta Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Other notable appearances include his Canadian debut in Eugene Onegin (title role) with Edmonton Opera and his Carnegie Hall debut as bass soloist in Messiah.
2026-2027
