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The Sound of Music

1965

In 1930s Austria, a free-spirited young postulant leaves her convent to become governess to a widowed naval captain's seven children, bringing music and warmth back into their regimented home as the shadow of Nazism falls over the country. The beloved musical.

Why it’s here

A Salzburg and Austrian Alps musical centered on Austrian family life during the Anschluss era.