Studied at the Novosibirsk Glinka Conservatoire (class of Vladimir Prudnik) before transferring to the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire from which he graduated in 2008 (class of Vladimir Vaneyev). In 2009 he trained on the Young Opera Singers programme at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. From 2006 to 2011 Roman Burdenko was a soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, then was a soloist at the Novosibirsk Opera. He made his Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2013 and joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in 2017. <<cut>>
He has appeared as a guest soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre, Bayerische Staatsoper, Zürich Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Grand-Théâtre de Genève, Glyndebourne Festival. For the role of Igor Svyatoslavich he was nominated for Russia’s national Golden Mask theatre award in the category “Best Male Role in Opera” (Novosibirsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet, 2010).
Prize-winner at the All-Russian Open Opera Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2007, Grand-prix), at the International Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singers Competition (Moscow, 2008, 1st prize), at the International Competition Villa de Colmenar Viejo (Colmenar Viejo, 2009, 2nd prize), at the International Francesc Viñas Competition (Barcelona, 2011, 3rd prize), at the International Long – Thibaud – Crespin Competition (Paris, 2011), at the International Competition Monte Carlo Voice Masters (Monaco, 2011, Grand-prix), the International Competition Operalia (Beijing, 2012, 3rd prize), at the at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (Amsterdam, 2013, 2nd prize).