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Dinner + Performance Ticket  – $150

• Starting at 5:30PM at the Sun Valley Culinary Institute – This night out combines the enchanting artistry of a world-renowned puppet theater with a delicious, authentic Austrian dinner. The evening begins with soft, golden potato rolls served alongside Obatzda, the traditional Bavarian cheese spread. A seasonal course follows with silky Kürbissuppe (pumpkin soup) paired with a refreshing cucumber salad.

  The main course features a classic Schweineschnitzel, crisp and golden, accompanied by brown butter Spätzle, braised red wine sauerkraut, and a bright touch of lemon. To end on a sweet note, we’ll serve house-made Apfelstrudel with kirsch cream, a fitting finale before the curtain rises on the Salzburg Marionette Theater.

Salzburg Marionette Theater –

On the stage, the marionettes are the protagonists, and the people are behind – or rather, above it all. Because, while down on the stage these finely-crafted marionettes perform plays, fairy-tales, musicals and operas, it's the skilled puppeteers two metres above them who guide all their movements with a special technique, each on 12 strings. The puppeteers, who have mastered this unique method, bring the marionettes to miraculous life.

This special performance technique has been declared a cultural asset worthy of preservation, as the "most highly developed form of puppet and figure theatre", earning the Salzburg Marionette Theatre a place in the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Performance –

Maria, a postulant at Nunberg Abbey is too free-spirited to accept discipline of the order. Easily and frequently escapes to the mountains. So, the Mother Abbess arranged for Maria to work as a governess for the wealthy aristocratic navy captain Geroge Von Trapp, a widower with seven children. The captain runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. Within kindness and understanding, and by adding music to their normally rigorous schedule Maria wins the children ́s hearts. The Capitan, increasingly captivated by Maria, falls in love with her; he returns his affection. Although Captain Von Trapp is engaged to the elegant socialite Elsa Schraeder, he eventually marries Maria.

The Trapps’ married life is quickly disrupted by Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria. They return from their honeymoon to find a telegram summoning the Capitan to serve in the navy of the Third Reich. But the Capitan is a patriot passionate about fulfilling life that Austria has always offered its citizens.

The family has become well known as an amateur singing group, and at the instigation of a family friend, Max Detweiler, the Trapps make a final appearance at the Salzburg Festival. At the end of the performance, they manage to escape to Nonnberg Abbey and from there they cross the mountains on foot to Switzerland.