"Elisabeth" is a musical which can be seen in Vienna at the moment. It portrays the life and death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria , wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I. It has been translated into seven languages and seen by over ten million spectators worldwide, making it the most successful German-language musical of all time.
The Musical tells the story of Elisabeth ("Sissi") the Empress of Austria from her engagement and marriage in 1854 to her murder in 1898 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni, through the lense of her growing obsession with Death as her marriage and her empire crumble around her at the turn of the century.
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