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Filming took place from March to September 1964 in Los Angeles and Salzburg. The Sound of Music was released in the United States on March 2, 1965, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. Initial critical response to the film was mixed, but it was a major commercial success, becoming the number-one box office film after four weeks ...
The gazebo interiors were shot on a Hollywood sound stage and only long shots of the Austrian gazebo are seen in the film. The gazebo was later moved to the other side of the lake to allow tourists to visit it, but after their numbers became too big, it was again relocated, to the Hellbrunn Palace outside of the city.
Back in 1964, the historic Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, was chosen as one of the primary filming locations for director Robert Wise’s big screen adaptation of The Sound of Music ...
The Sound of Music strives for nothing in the way of smash effects, substituting instead a kind of gracious and unpretentious simplicity." [71] The New York World-Telegram and Sun pronounced The Sound of Music "the loveliest musical imaginable. It places Rodgers and Hammerstein back in top form as melodist and lyricist.
The Felsenreitschule was used as a location for the 1965 film version of The Sound of Music. It appears as the site of the Salzburg music festival where Captain von Trapp sings "Edelweiss" and from which the von Trapp family disappear. [4]
[1] [2] [3] It was cut from the film version of The Sound of Music, [4] but included on reissues of the soundtrack recording. In the motion picture version, the song was filmed in and around a gazebo which is still visited by hundreds of tourists each day doing "Sound of Music" tours around Salzburg though the gazebo interiors were filmed in ...
At Nonnberg the story of Maria von Trapp began, who became a postulant there in 1924 and whose life was the basis for the Broadway musical (1959) and (1965) film, The Sound of Music. [4] The abbess during Maria's time at Nonnberg was Virgilia Lütz (1869-1949). Some scenes from the movie were filmed at the abbey. [6]
Salzburg Marionette Theatre was established in 1913 and is one of the oldest continuing marionette theatres in the world. It is based in the city of Salzburg , Austria . [ 1 ] Original productions featured live actors and musicians.