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2 days ago · It is based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp and is set in Salzburg, Austria. It is a fictional retelling of her experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938. [4]
Aug 16, 2024 · Maria von Trapp lived until she was eighty-two, dying in Vermont in the late 1980s. Her opinion on The Sound of Music was moderate, as she disliked Georg’s portrayal as a cold patrician, and thought her own portrayal fair, but a little too gentle.
Aug 7, 2024 · Elisabeth von Trapp is the daughter of the late Werner von Trapp, depicted as Kurt in the film. Maria was her step-grandmother. Image: Hannelore Kirchner./Courtesy Elisabeth von Trapp.
Aug 7, 2024 · The Von Trapp children play while their then-nanny Maria looks on in the Salzburg Marionette Theater's production of The Sound of Music.
5 days ago · The son of Johannes von Trapp, Sam is a 3rd generation scion of the celebrated family that inspired the Broadway musical and screen production of ‘ The Sound of Music ’. Still alive and in his 80s, Johannes is the last surviving child of Georg von Trapp and his 2nd wife, Maria, portrayed in the film by Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews.
2 days ago · Watch the Sound of Music performed by creepy puppets. Who could forget the “Lonely Goatherd” where Maria and the children suddenly lay their hands on a huge number of professional-level theatre puppets and perform for Captain Von Trapp. There’s some great rhymes in this song and yodelling.
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Aug 7, 2024 · The Sound of Music, which takes place during the late 1930s, opens on a sweeping view of the Austrian Alps and a young woman, Maria (played by Julie Andrews), singing. When she hears church bells, she hurries back to the abbey, where she is a postulant, but she arrives too late for the church service.