Flexibility, vibrancy and immediacy of expression make Holger Falk an internationally sought-after interpreter. With his multiple opera appearances as well as being an avid concert and lieder singer, he is a guest at major houses throughout Europe and the USA, working with renowned conductors and directors. “Falk is able to characterize every word so vividly that, if he were singing in Vedic Sanskrit, you’d get the message”, reported the Washington Post. He has a great passion for contemporary music theatre, and several new scores were composed especially for him: he sang the world premières of The Golden Dragon by Peter Eötvös at the Oper Frankfurt and at the Bregenz Festival along with Ein Brief by Manfred Trojahn at the Oper Bonn and Septembersonate by Manfred Trojahn at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf. He has been nominated as singer of the year by Opernwelt magazine for his outstanding interpretations of Kassandra in Iannis Xenaki’s Oresteia, Johannes in Georg Friedrich Haas’ Morgen und Abend and of Lord Byron in Michael Wertmüller’s world première Diodati. Unendlich.
He has also interpreted works by composers including Wolfgang Rihm, Beat Furrer, Georges Aperghis, Bernhard Lang, Miroslav Srnka, Vladimir Tarnopolski and Steffen Schleiermacher and has appeared at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Theater an der Wien, the Theater Basel, the Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris and the National Opera Warsaw. He received the German Record Critics’ Award 2017 and the ECHO Klassik Award 2016. He performed at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ Amsterdam, the Megaron Athen as well as at the Frick Collection NYC and Phillips Collection Washington i.a. He is professor of Lied interpretation and performance practice for contemporary music at the renowned University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
As of October 2025