Elisabeth The Musical

Directed by Eddy Habbema

With Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson, Wim Van Den Driessche, Jeroen Phaff and Doris Baaten

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.