The 2022/23 season saw Volkov 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 also performed at the Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival as Fenton in Falstaff, and at the Opéra national du Rhin in Tcherniakov's production of The Tale of Tsar Saltan.[citation needed]
In the 2023/24 season, Volkov performed in Trittico, L‘elisir d‘amore, Don Giovanni, and Eugene Onegin at the Vienna State Opera. He also performed in The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, La Traviata at the Dutch National Opera and Bayerische Staatsoper, Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper Berlin, and Cosi fan tutte at the Bayerische Staatsoper.[citation needed]
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]