Nor did town have one place to inform the total story, from the true von Trapp household, who grew to become a profitable touring choir and left Austria after the Nazi annexation in 1938, by means of to the Broadway and Hollywood productions and the movie’s international attain. Sound Of Music Salzburg, a brand new museum years within the making, opened in late September to fill that hole.
The museum sits in a restored looking lodge and coach home on the grounds of Seventeenth-century Hellbrunn Palace, a couple of minutes’ stroll from the unique gazebo the place Liesl and Rolf dance by means of a thunderstorm. The primary room drops you straight into the movie’s iconic opening, with Andrews spinning throughout a mountaintop proven on a large display. Subsequent, we absorb behind-the-scenes footage from the set, shot by a teenage Hammond on a cine digital camera he obtained for his 14th birthday throughout filming.
Within the coach home, the story unfolds from Maria’s 1949 memoir to a German movie, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1959 Broadway hit and, lastly, Robert Sensible’s cinema basic. A spotlight is a duplicate of the gazebo that doubles as a 360-degree projection room. When Sixteen Going On Seventeen performs, the encompass sound swells and gusts of wind and rain lash on the panes, and guests are free to prance and leap alongside as Liesl and Rolf did.
