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.
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
as
Timo Bakker
as
Ron Barents
as
