Falko Herold
Set and video designBiography
Set, costume and video designer and illustrator. Born in Schleswig-Holstein, he studied scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1997-2001. Since 2001 he has been working as a theatre set designer. From 2001 to 2003 he worked as a lecturer in scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 2009 he has been working regularly with director David Bösch and set designer Patrick Bannwart. As Bösch‘s set designer, he was involved in the Korean premiere of Goethe‘s Urfaust at the Myeongdong Theatre in Seoul and the French premiere of Schreker‘s Die Gezeichneten in Lyon, for which he designed the costumes and video art. At the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, he designed costumes for Bösch‘s productions of Donizetti‘s L’elisir d‘amore, Smetana‘s The Bartered Bride, Mozart‘s Mitridate and Janáček‘s The Cunning Little Vixen. Since 2006, he has collaborated with the director and intendant of the Landestheater Linz, Hermann Schneider, and with the Berlin film and opera director Axel Ranisch (e.g. on the production of Stravinsky‘s Mavra and Tchaikovsky's Iolanta at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2019).