Elisabeth The Musical (1999)
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.
- Released
- 1999-11-21
- Genres
- Music, History
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Eddy Habbema
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
- Addo Kruizinga as Aartshertog Rudolf (volwassen)
- Nico Schaap as Hertog Maximiliaan Jozef
- Nicole Hermans as Helene in Beieren/Frau Wolf
- Robbert Klein as Kleine Rudolf
- René van Kooten
- Timo Bakker
- Ron Barents