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.
as Keizerin Elisabeth
as De Dood
as Luigi Lucheni
as Keizer Frans Jozef I
as Aartshertogin Sophie van Beieren
as Aartshertog Rudolf (volwassen)
as Hertog Maximiliaan Jozef
as Helene in Beieren/Frau Wolf
as Kleine Rudolf