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.

Genres

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

Céline Purcell