Elisabeth The Musical

Release Date: 1999-11-21

Overview: Recording of a Dutch performance of the musical Elisabeth. It portrays the life and death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as "Sisi", the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I, from her engagement and marriage in 1854 to her murder in 1898 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni; it focuses on her growing obsession with death, as her marriage and the empire crumble around her just before the turn of the 20th century.

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Cast

Pia Douwes

as Keizerin Elisabeth

Stanley Burleson

as De Dood

Wim Van Den Driessche

as Luigi Lucheni

Jeroen Phaff

as Keizer Frans Jozef I

Doris Baaten

as Aartshertogin Sophie van Beieren