“Elisabeth”
The show opens in the "world of the dead", where Luigi Lucheni is being interrogated by a Judge as to why he has murdered the Empress Elisabeth. Lucheni claims that he did no more than what Elisabeth herself wanted, since all her life Elisabeth has been in love with Death himself – and vice versa. As his witnesses, Lucheni brings back the dead aristocracy of the bygone era and takes us to the past, where he serves as a sarcastic narrator of the events that lead to the transformation of the sweet and innocent Sisi to the revered and infamous Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, and her decline through later years until her assassination.
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Cast
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Pia Douwes
Elisabeth (Sisi)
Also in
Rebecca
3 Musketeers - The Musical
Uwe Kröger
Der Tod
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Rudolf - Affaire Mayerling
Ein Richter zum Küssen
Ethan Freeman
Luigi Lucheni
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Odds Are
Leonard Bernstein's Mass
Viktor Gernot
Kaiser Franz Joseph I.
Also in
2 Musterknaben
Viktor Gernot: Grätznfest
Else Ludwig
Erzhherzogin Sophie
Also in
Inspector Rex
Murder in the Mountains
Andreas Bieber
Kronprinz Rudolf
Also in
Hans im Glück
Die Wache
Harry Kupfer Director · Michael Kunze Writer
First release September 3, 1992
Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Austria · September 3, 1992
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
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