On our one trip to Salzburg over New Years' it was too cold for a tour, but we saw the puppets,
the same ones featured in the movie, in a full-length opera, "Die Fleitermauss" on New Year's Eve. They were amazing.
I was skeptical, but the crowd was all dressed in fur and diamonds, and the theatre was a small restored Baroque showplace. For a puppet show! That's how revered that company was.