27 February 1913, the sculptor Professor Anton Aicher made his début with his marionette theatre, performing Mozart's opera Bastien und Bastienne. In October 1913, he hired the gymnasium of the archiepiscopal Borromaeum seminary in the Dreifaltigkeitsgasse and installed his Salzburg Marionette Theatre, which was to remain there for 49 years.
The theatre
participated in the cycle of all 22 Mozart operas at the Salzburg Festival and co-produced Bastien und Bastienne and Der Schauspieldirektor. In the autumn of 2006, the theatre gave performances in Costa Mesa/California. December: three-week tour of France. Today, the Salzburg Marionette Theatre has undertaken 250 guest performances and tours in Austria and abroad.
