Salzburg Marionette Theater

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Left half of the building complex: the former Hotel Mirabell - venue for the Salzburg Marionette Theater

The Salzburg Marionette Theater has existed since 1913 in the city of Salzburg , on which operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are preferably performed.

history

The year 1913 is considered to be the founding year of Salzburg marionettes, when Anton Aicher , a Styrian-born sculptor, put his passion as a figure carver and lover of puppet theater into practice and presented his idea of ​​the world of marionettes to the Salzburgers with Mozart's “ Bastien and Bastienne ” . The success was so overwhelming that from then on the marionettes got their permanent place in Salzburg. After Anton Aichner's death, the theater was artistically directed by his son Hermann until his death in 1977 and then by his daughter Gretl Aicher (1928–2012).

program

Poster of the puppet theater at Monumento 2018

The Salzburg Marionette Theater is a kind of small opera house . The listed works are staged like real operas : a stage designer designs the stage setting, a director stages the stage and a choreographer develops the dance part. The music, by renowned orchestras and soloists, comes from a phonogram. This gives the audience the illusion of an opera performance. The program is aimed primarily at adult music theater enthusiasts , especially Mozart's works. “ The Magic Flute ”, “ Don Giovanni ”, “ The Marriage of Figaro ” and “ The Abduction from the Seraglio ” are prominently represented in the repertoire. In addition to the Mozart operas, there are also performances of works by other composers, such as Rossini's “ The Barber of Seville ”, Offenbach's “ Hoffmanns Erzählungen ” or “ Die Fledermaus ” by Johann Strauss. Prokofiev's “ Peter and the Wolf ” and Humperdinck's “ Hansel and Gretel ” were staged for children . The program also includes the “ Nutcracker Suite ”, “ A Midsummer Night's Dream ” (the only spoken piece) and the musical “ The Sound of Music ”, which is especially intended for Salzburg tourists .

There was a cooperation with the Salzburg Festival in 2006, when the puppet theater contributed two pieces to the festival program with “Bastien and Bastienne” and “ Der Schauspieldirektor ”.

The puppet theater ensemble also goes on tour and gives guest performances in several countries around the world. The performance practice of the Salzburg Marionette Theater has been part of Austria's intangible cultural heritage since 2016 .

  • Demonstration stand at Monumento 2018

  • Playing is hard work

  • The pawns are still hanging

  • Music makes everything come alive

  • Don Giovanni sings

  • Papageno plays the flute

  • Papagena is in love

  • There is dancing

  • Everything waltz!

  • Hansel and Gretel dream

  • Or they fall asleep

  • The little prince philosophizes

  • In the end, the characters are lifeless

Location

The Salzburg Marionette Theater, which was moved into in 1971, is a baroque- style theater with 350 seats . It is on the right side of the old town between the Salzburg State Theater and the Mozarteum . The building was previously, among other things, the “Hotel Mirabell” in which the writer James Joyce stayed during his five-week stay in Salzburg in the summer of 1928.

Web links

Commons : Salzburg Marionette Theater  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://orf.at/stories/2358331/ Salzburg Marionette Theater is part of Austria's intangible cultural heritage
  2. ^ Andreas Weigel: James Joyce's stays in Austria. Innsbruck (1928), Salzburg (1928) and Feldkirch (1915, 1932). In: Michael Ritter (Hrsg.): Praesent 2006. The Austrian Literature Yearbook. Literary events in Austria from July 2004 to June 2005. pp. 93–105. Vienna: präsens 2005, p. 100f.

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '11 "  N , 13 ° 2' 33"  E