Elisabeth The Musical (1999)
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.
Cast
Pia Douwes
Keizerin Elisabeth
Stanley Burleson
De Dood
Jeroen Phaff
Keizer Frans Jozef I
Doris Baaten
Aartshertogin Sophie van Beieren
Addo Kruizinga
Aartshertog Rudolf (volwassen)
René van Kooten
