Herbert Murauer
Set Designer
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Set and costume designer Herbert Murauer has worked regularly at Oper Frankfurt, on Christof Loy's Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt – an online evening of Tchaikovsky Lieder – with whom he devised productions of Wozzeck, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La fanciulla del West, Die Fledermaus, Cosí fan tutte and Giordano's Fedora, for the company. Now he's back in Frankfurt, where he designed the set for Matthew Wild's new Tannhäuser last season and costumes for our new Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg directed by Joannes Erath, for whom he was set designer on Giulio Cesare in Egitto in Frankfurt, costume designer for La traviata at the Hamburg State Opera and set and costume designer for Korngold's Die tote Stadt at Oper Graz and Friday the 13th at the Theater an der Wien, for this new production of Handel's Partenope directed by Julia Burbach, with whom he worked for the first time on L'elisir d'amore at the Statni Opera in Prague. Other recent projects included designing sets and costumes for Gounod's Faust at Cologne Opera, Humperdinck's Königskinder and Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa at the Tirol Festival in Erl, both directed by Matthew Wild and Respighi's La Fiamma at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He also designed sets for Il barbiere di Siviglia at Den Norske Opera in Oslo, Leoncavallo's Zazà at the Theater an der Wien, Carmen at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, Legrenzi's La divisione del mondo at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg and Mozart's Lucio Silla at Theater Basel. His artistry has been seen at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Grand Théâtre in Geneva, Los Angeles Opera, Korean National Opera in Seoul and the Glyndebourne Festival.