사진은 Johannnes와 Sam Von Trapp(오른쪽)이 그의 가족이 운영하는 산장에서 크로스컨트리 스키를 즐기고 있는 모습이다. 지금 토론토 다운타운에 소재한 The Princess of Wales Theatre에서 한창 공연중에 있는 'Sound of Music'오페라 공연 관람을 며칠 앞두고, 좀더 의미있고, 내용을 알아 보기위해 자료를 찾았었다. 오래전에 영화를 본기억으로는, 오스트리아의 해군 지휘관이었던 Captain Trapp이 나치 독일과의 비협조로체포직전, 그의 7명의 자녀와, 처음에는 아이들 보살피는 보모로 같이 생활하게된 '마리아'와같이, 음악 경연대회를 핑계로 교묘하게 나치의 경계망을 뚫고, 탈출하여 알프스산을 넘어 스위스로 들어가게되는 내용으로 요약된다. 실제로 그들은 스위스로 탈출한게 아니고, 바로 이태리로 그곳에서 다시 영국으로, 다시 미국으로 이민하여 현재 그의 후손들이 미국에서 살고 있다고 자료는 밝히고 있다. 음악경연대회에서 그들이 불렀던 여러노래중, Edelweiss는 내가 가장 인상깊게 들었던 노래이고, 지금도 나는 가끔씩 기회가 있을때 마다 불러보곤 한다. 이번에 공연되는 오페라는 1965년에 제작된 영화와는 어떻게 다른점이 있을까? 자못 궁금해 진다. 아래의 article 은 당시의 영화내용과 그의 자손들이 미국생활을 하고있는 삶의 의 내용을 요약한 내용이다. 그런데 본국판 동아일보에서도 후손들의 삶을 보도했는데, 이곳의 내용이 보여주는 내용보다는 어두운면만 부각시켜 간단히 소개한 점이 보여, 이글을 읽는 분들은 꼭 아래 원본을 같이 읽어 보시기를 권하고 싶다. The Sound of Music (film) poster by Howard Terpning Directed by Robert Wise Produced by Robert Wise Written by Autobiography: Maria von Trapp Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews in the lead role. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Ernest Lehman wrote the screenplay. The musical originated with the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. It contains many popular songs, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and "The Lonely Goatherd", as well as the title song. The movie version was filmed on location in Salzburg, Austria and Bavaria in Southern Germany, and also at the 20th Century Fox Studios in California. It was photographed in 70 mm Todd-AO by Ted D. McCord. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1965 and is one of the most popular musicals ever produced. The cast album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2001. [edit]Plot In Salzburg, Austria, Maria, played by Andrews, is studying to become a nun but is not sure if convent life is right for her. She is sent from her abbey to be the governess to seven children of a widower naval commander, Captain Georg Ritter von Trapp. Maria and the Captain immediately disagree on the way the children are treated; the Captain has been raising them according to the principles of military discipline, while Maria wants them to enjoy life as children while they can. The children are Liesl (16), Friedrich (14), Louisa (13), Kurt (11), Brigitta (10), Marta (7), and Gretl (5). The children, mischievous and initially hostile to Maria, eventually come to love her when she introduces them to the pleasures of music and singing. Once the Captain discovers this, he feels very remorseful for his rigidity. He apologizes to Maria for being so strict with the children, asks her to stay for a while, and seeks to enjoy living himself. One of the Captain's friends, Max Dettweiler, tries to convince the Captain to let the children perform in his concert. Maria finds herself falling in love with the captain, who is engaged to Elsa Schraeder, a very wealthy baroness. The Baroness becomes jealous of Maria and convinces her to leave during a grand party at the house, by exploiting Maria's inner conflict about becoming a nun and her discomfort at the Captain's obvious affection towards her. Although the Captain announces his intention to marry the Baroness Elsa, she does not have good rapport with the children. After a talk with the Mother Abbess, Maria decides to return to the Trapp family. Upon Maria's return, the Baroness realizes the Captain is in love with Maria and decides to leave for Vienna after the Captain himself makes it clear that he is not in love with her and that a marriage between them would not work. Afterwards, the Captain and Maria reveal their feelings for each other and finally wed. The Third Reich takes power in Austria as part of the Anschluss and tries to force Captain von Trapp back into military service. The Captain, unwilling to serve the Reich, delays the matter by insisting to Zeller, the Gauleiter, or party leader for the district, that he is part of the Trapp Family Singers and must appear with them during a performance at the Salzburg Music Festival, in a guarded theater. After a curtain call, and with the help of the nuns of Maria's former convent, the whole family flees and hikes over the Alps to Switzerland. In a subplot, Liesl, the oldest of the children, falls for a messenger named Rolfe. At first he comes to see Liesl every evening, in one memorable episode where they are dancing in the rain. The two become estranged after he joins Nazi Party, as he realizes that her father has no regard for him and does not support Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. However, Rolfe does subtly warn the von Trapps about the danger they face for not obeying the summons of the Reich. Later as part of a search party trying to track the family fugitives, Rolfe alone discovers the von Trapps and after a brief confrontation with the Captain, alerts his fellow soldiers to the von Trapps presence. The soldiers give chase but are unable to catch up with the von Trapps, as their vehicles are sabotaged by the nuns at the abbey. [edit]Cast Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp Christopher Plummer as Captain Baron von Trapp Peggy Wood as Mother Abbess Charmian Carr as Liesl von Trapp Richard Haydn as Max Detweiler Nicholas Hammond as Friedrich von Trapp Heather Menzies as Louisa von Trapp Duane Chase as Kurt von Trapp Angela Cartwright as Brigitta von Trapp Debbie Turner as Marta von Trapp Kym Karath as Gretl von Trapp Eleanor Parker as Baroness Elsa Schraeder Daniel Truhitte as Rolfe Ben Wright as Hans Zeller, Gauleiter [edit]Production Von Trapps Reunited, Without the Singing Paul O. Boisvert for The New York Times Johannes and Sam Von Trapp, right, cross-country skiing at their Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: December 24, 2008 STOWE, Vt. ― When Sam von Trapp, the grandson of Maria, the singing nun made famous by “The Sound of Music,” graduated from college, his father offered him a deal: Sam could do whatever he wanted for 10 years before he had to return home here to run the family’s ski lodge. Toby Talbot/Associated Press Johannes von Trapp with his mother, Maria, in 1984. The von Trapp family was depicted in the movie “The Sound of Music,” in which Julie Andrews portrayed Mrs. von Trapp. His father started calling him to come home after six years. When Mr. von Trapp finally returned to take over from his father, Johannes, he had had quite a decade: teaching skiing in Aspen, modeling for Ralph Lauren, surfing in Chile and even making People magazine’s America’s Top 50 Bachelors list in 2001. Recently, he sat in a dark office at the Trapp Family Lodge, the inn his grandmother started, trying to decide what to do with some old curtains. It is hard for anyone to untangle family history and allegiances during the holidays. When your last name is von Trapp, and Americans claim you as part of their own legacy, that task is just that much harder. That legacy weighs on Mr. von Trapp even as he considers something as mundane as curtains. In “The Sound of Music,” the beloved 1965 movie, Maria, the governess played by Julie Andrews, turned old curtains into play clothes for the seven von Trapp children, just as the real Maria had done. Mr. von Trapp figured that if he sold von Trapp draperies on eBay, he might turn a nice little profit. “Nobody has the level of commitment I do,” said Mr. von Trapp, now 36, but with the energy and earnestness of a teenager. “Nobody has as much to gain.” Despite the nostalgic mist around “The Sound of Music," Mr. von Trapp is taking over a business for a family that has had its share of ups and downs and disagreements. When the von Trapps arrived in the United States in 1938, they settled in Pennsylvania and made money by singing baroque and folk music. By 1942, the family had bought a farm in Stowe. Maria rented out rooms in the house when the von Trapps were on tour singing. Still, Johannes von Trapp, the 10th and youngest child, remembers growing up relatively anonymously in a quiet, strict home. That began to shift after the 1959 Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” and when the movie opened, everything changed. “You could no longer give your name anywhere without people saying ‘Oh, are you ... ?’ ” said the elder Mr. von Trapp, now 69. “The film, for better or for worse, made us a mass market commodity.” The von Trapps have never directly profited from the film or Broadway musical: Maria, whose husband died in 1947, sold the rights to the family story to a German film company in the mid-1950s for just $9,000. Johannes and now his son run the cross-country skiing lodge that trades on the family’s fame with Austrian food, waitresses wearing dirndls and pictures of the family, but not a single poster from the movie. “ ‘The Sound of Music’ was great, but it was an American version of my family’s life,” said Johannes, who no longer sings, although he still has a pleasant, reedy bass voice. “It wasn’t what we were. I just got tired of being cast as a ‘Sound of Music’ person.” The family legacy has been particularly onerous for him. People would ask about Liesl, and he would have to point out that his eldest sibling was not 16 going on 17, but 54 in 1965 ― and male. They would ask whether he was Kurt or Friedrich, and he would have to explain that his father and mother had three children together that were not portrayed in the movie, and he was the youngest. His mother was presented as a near-saint in the movie; in real life, she was difficult and domineering, people who knew her said. By 1969, he had graduated from Dartmouth, completed a master’s degree from the Yale school of forestry and was planning on an academic career in natural resources. He returned to Stowe to put the inn’s finances in order, and ended up running the place. He tried to leave, moving to a ranch in British Columbia in 1977 and staying a few years, then moving to a ranch in Montana. But the professional management in Stowe kept quitting. “Now I’m stuck here,” he said. As long as Maria was alive, the von Trapp siblings grudgingly got along. “She was a very strong minded, strong willed woman,” said Marshall Faye, a baker who has worked at the lodge for more than 30 years. “She ruled the family. Anything they did had to have her blessing.” But after she died in 1987, the family members ― 32 of whom owned stock in the lodge ― started to fracture. Johannes engineered a buyout in 1994 and resolved a lawsuit with relatives in 1999. “I honestly resented the fact that none of my older siblings could’ve took over the business,” he said. “Then I could’ve run off and done whatever I wanted to do.” If he had to run a lodge, he wanted a quiet, dignified one. He enjoys events like the Friday night wine tastings, where he can sip Grüner Veltliners and greet guests in the patrician fashion he learned as a boy. But in the off season, the “Sound of Music” bus tours arrive, full of seniors who line their purses with cellophane so they can stuff them with Austrian pastries at the breakfast buffet. He recently discovered that his gift shop had been selling a stuffed goat that sings “The Lonely Goatherd.” “Isn’t that awful?” he said, sighing. “My staff hid it from me for months. But it does sell.” Since the buyout, the lodge has been profitable, if not enormously so, he said. It provides well for his family ― his wife, Lynne, whom he met when she was a singing waitress at the lodge, and his children, Sam and Kristina, 38, who recently moved back to Stowe and built a house on the 2,400-acre property. For Sam, a generation removed from “The Sound of Music,” the burden of being a von Trapp is lighter. He has seen the movie only twice, and is the child of a Vermonter, not the son of an Austrian baron. "For him, there were all those issues in the family, too, that came along with that little leap into fame," Sam said of his father. Since his return, the younger Mr. von Trapp has made snow making his big project, spending nights on the snow-covered meadows in 10-degree weather, doing the heavy manual work it requires. He plans to bring back holiday singalongs and to advertise the lodge during ABC’s broadcast of “The Sound of Music” on Sunday, which his father once opposed. The movie is “one of the reasons ― the big one ― that people come here,” said Ron Tanner, a marketing consultant who works at the lodge. “The TV ad will be to say, ‘Hey, the next generation has taken over the Trapp Family Lodge.’ ” Early on a Friday night, Johannes slipped into the bar and ordered a glass of blaufränkisch, an Austrian red wine, and a hamburger without a bun. The piano player, John Cassel, was playing a different song for each regular visitor. He plays Scott Joplin’s “Solace” for Sam, and pieces by the Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez for Sam’s fiancée, Elisa. Johannes’s song is “Desperado,” the Eagles’ ballad. “It’s very rewarding when you see a lounge full of happy people and a pianist plays someone’s song, my song,” Johannes said. With Sam taking over, “I’ll get back to Montana,” he said. “I’ve sort of done my thing here. Now it’s up to my son to take it from here.”