I went along to the Lindau Marionettenoper - puppet opera - to see Die Fledermaus. It was a full-blown opera with pre-recorded singing and dialogue in German. The puppets moved and reacted to the recording, to the extent that they were visibly shaking when holding prolonged high notes. The opera went for over two hours.
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| My view from the second row |
After the show, the audience was invited to go backstage to see the puppets up close and to ask questions. In about 20 minutes there listening, the only thing I understood was that each puppet costs about 2000 euros. They have separate puppets for each costume change, too, so it's pretty expensive.
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| Two puppeteers operating puppets and answering questions |
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| The main characters |
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| The other puppets are just hanging there while questions are taken |
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| Rosalinde, dressed and masked for the ball |
There were six puppeteers working during the performance, with up to eight or nine puppets on stage at once. Such skill is needed. There are so many strings, the puppets collide at several points, and they can make them express such emotion. As well as all this, the puppeteers must dodge one another as their puppets make their way across the stage.
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| "Please" |
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| Not as big as they looked on stage - I'd guess about 80 cm |
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| View from the back. If the curtains opened, you'd see the seats |
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| Puppets from all the different operas are stored up here |
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