Released:
1999-11-21

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.

Director:
Eddy Habbema

Runtime:
2h 22min

Genre:
Music, History

• 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