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Salzburg Marionette Theatre

String puppets performing Mozart's operas and The Sound of Music, a Salzburg tradition since 1913.

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Photo: Karl Gruber · CC BY-SA 4.0
Open
On performance days; check the website
Price
Paid
Time Needed
2 hours
Address
Schwarzstrasse 24, 5020 SalzburgDirections
Getting There
On the right bank, a walk from the Mirabell gardens.

Why Go

Anton Aicher founded the theater in 1913, and his family ran it for most of a century. Its puppets perform to recordings by great orchestras and singers: The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, The Nutcracker and The Sound of Music.

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