MusicHistory

Elisabeth The Musical

Name: Elisabeth The Musical
Director: Eddy Habbema
Genre: Music, History
Released: 1999-11-21
Duration: 142 min
Cast: Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson, Wim Van Den Driessche, Jeroen Phaff, Doris Baaten

November 21, 1999

2h 22m

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.