Herold Falko, studied set design under Erich Wonder at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1997 to 2001. Since 2001, he has worked as a set designer for various theaters and opera productions. From 2001 to 2003, he was a lecturer in the scenography class at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
Since 2009, Herold has worked regularly with director David Bösch and set designer Patrick Bannwart. As part of this team, he designed, among other things, the costumes for “L’elisir d’amore” at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and for “Simon Boccanegra” for the Opéra National de Lyon. Since 2011, Herold has also worked as a set designer for Bösch, including for the Korean premiere of “Urfaust” at the Myeongdong Theater in Seoul and for the French premiere of Franz Schreker’s opera “Die Gezeichneten”, for which he also designed the costumes and video.
Herold has also collaborated with artistic director and director Hermann Schneider, with whom he has worked since 2006, initially at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and since 2016 at the Musiktheater Linz.
Since 2016, Herold has also been a lecturer at the Institute for Make-Up at the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding under Verena Eschenberg in Munich.
