Maria, from The Sound of Music, in wedding dress at the Salzburger Marionettentheater.

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Salzburger Marionettentheater

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The red curtain goes up on a miniature stage at this marionette theatre, a lavish stucco, cherub and chandelier-lit affair founded in 1913. The repertoire star is The Sound of Music, with a life-sized Mother Superior and a marionette-packed finale. Other enchanting productions include Mozart's The Magic Flute and Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. All have multilingual surtitles.

The theatre is a Unesco World Heritage site, proclaimed in 2017.