In the last season the story of the famous, singing Austrian Trapp family came to the stage in Vienna for the first time ever and was a great success. Based on the true-life tale in pre-war Austria of Maria, sent as a governess to the household of Baron Georg Ritter von Trapp to look after his seven children left motherless after the death of his wife. In 1927 Maria became the Baron's wife and so began the Trapp family legend. Several films and a major Broadway musical became so popular that they changed musical and cinematic history. Sung in German with English surtitles.