How is the Marionette Theater in Vienna?
 

This looked interesting to me and I would like
opinions from those who've attended. Is "The
Magic Flute" a good production? Thank you.

I've only done a marionette theatre in Prague and it was Don Giovanni, not The Magic Flute, but it was wonderful! If you've never done an opera by marionettes, by all means do it.

I went to a performance of the Magic Flute 3 years ago at the Marionetten Theater in Salzburg. The music is/was from a top level recording. As I recall it was one produced by Deutsche Grammophon.

While the music plays, the marionettes are then manipulated to act out the opera. The fascinating part is watching those little creatures bounce around. It is sheer magic.

I suggest you get close as you can to the stage for good viewing, perhaps within the first 8 rows, but not THE very first row. We were in about the 5th row and the location was fine.

I do not recall if the recording was the Deutsche Grammophone version with Roberta Peters, Dietrich Fischer-Diskau and Fritz Wunderlich or the one with Maria Stader, Rita Streich, Fischer-Diskau, and Ernst Häfliger and conduced by Fricsay. Somehow, none of the female singers sounded like Roberta Peters.
Nor did the tenor sound like the virtually incomparable Fritz Wunderlich.

I saw The Magic Flute at the Marrionette Theatre in Salzburg a few years ago and it was fabulous! I got so caught up in it that I often forgot that those weren't real people on the stage. It's really a wonderful experience.

My Mother in-law took her class of high school students to this and she raved about it being beyond exceptional. Gom for it and give us a report, bitte.