The Sound of Music Musical in Graz / Austria (Musical in German language)

The play

Austria on the verge of the Anschluss to Hitler's Third Reich was a troubled country, already tattered by internal political tensions. This era has been subject of various contemporary witnesses' descriptions and historians' analysis, mostly grim and drab.

However, rarely has a story combining private and political events so touched the world as the tale of novice Maria and the von Trapp family.
Maria employed as governess to the seven motherless children, led the family with energy and courage into the safe of haven of exil, singing as they went.

A successful blend of fact and fiction, the musical premiered in 1959 and has since enchanted generations with its memorable Richard Rodgers melodies. Now this piece of "living history" is to be performed for the first time in Graz.

The Plot

Maria Rainer, a novice, is employed as governess to educate the supposedly difficult children of the retired Austrian Navy lieutenant-commander Baron von Trapp.
With her natural intuition and, above all, with her music and singing she soon wins the children's trust and the affection of their father, even though he is already engaged to another woman.

The rise of National Socialism casts a shadow on the family's happiness, with Baron von Trapp not willing to conform to the new political situation.
A long-planned concert given by the von Trapp family choir at the Salzburg Festival eventually opens a window of opportunity to escape from their native Austria.

By: Music by: Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein, Book by: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Director: Marius Burkert & Massimo Parise, Producer: Renaud Doucet, Choreographer: Rudolf Klaban, Designer: André Barbe, Lighting Designer: Guy Simard, Dramaturgy: Birgit Amlinger, Chorus: Georgi Mladenov

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