ELISABETH

Vienna | August 29, 1992 - Pro-Shot

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Ethan Freeman (Luigi Lucheni), Viktor Gernot (Franz Joseph), Andreas Bieber (Kronprinz Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Wolfgang Pampel (Max in Bayern), Christa Wettstein (Herzogin Ludovika)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 2.33 GB) Dress rehearsal 

Vienna | 1993 

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Thomas Borchert (u/s Der Tod)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 743.4 MB) Highlights only

Vienna | October 6, 1994

Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Matthias Kostya (Luigi Lucheni), Viktor Gernot (Franz Joseph), Rolf Koster (u/s Kronprinz Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Wolfgang Pampel (Max in Bayern)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 3.36 GB) Uwe Kröger's last show. 

Vienna 10th Anniversary Concert | October 21, 2002

Andreas Bieber, Carsten Lepper, Cecilie Nerfont, Ethan Freeman, Felix Martin, Jeroen Phaff, Jesper Tydèn, Kata Janza, Maike Boerdam, Maki Ichiro, Michael Shawn Lewis, Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson, Szilveszter Szabó, Thomas Borchert, Uwe Kröger, Victor Gernot

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 3.07 GB) Looks like it was transferred from a high gen VHS and mucked with along the way. Colours were massively blown out and are now better but still overpowering.  

First Vienna Revival | 2003

Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Serkan Kaya (Luigi Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Jesper Tydèn (Kronprinz Rudolf), Lenneke Willemsen (u/s Sophie), Jaqueline Braun (u/s Herzogin Ludovika)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 2.16 GB) 2003 or 2004 

First Vienna Revival | December 12, 2003

Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Serkan Kaya (Luigi Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Lukas Perman (Kronprinz Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Dennis Kozeluh (Max in Bayern), Kerstin Ibald (Gräfin Esterházy)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 3.93 GB) Starts at the end of Prolog. Known for some rather interesting behaviour from Máté, particularly in act II with Lukas.

First Vienna Revival | November 1, 2004

Ruth Kraus (u/s Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Serkan Kaya (Luigi Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Lukas Perman (Kronprinz Rudolf), Lenneke Willemsen (u/s Sophie)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 7.21 GB) 

First Vienna Revival | January 3, 2005

Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Björn Breckheimer (u/s Luigi Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Fritz Schmid (Kronprinz Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie)

​NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 6.96 GB)

20th Anniversary Vienna Revival | 2012 - Pro-Shot

Annemieke van Dam (Elisabeth), Mark Seibert (Der Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Luigi Lucheni), Franziskus Hartenstein (Kaiser Franz Joseph), Daniela Ziegler (Sophie), Anton Zetterholm (Kronprinz Rudolf), Christian Peter Hauser (Max in Bayern)

NOTES: (MP4 - 81 MB) Highlights. Prolog, Der letzte Tanz, Ich gehör nur mir, Milch, Sie passt nicht

20th Anniversary Vienna Revival | March 22, 2013

Annemieke van Dam (Elisabeth), Mark Seibert (Der Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Luigi Lucheni), Franziskus Hartenstein (Franz Joseph), Anton Zetterholm (Kronprinz Rudolf), Daniela Ziegler (Sophie), Christian Peter Hauser (Max in Bayern), Aeneas Hollweg (Rudolf als Kind), Carin Filipčić (Herzogin Ludovika), Carin Filipčić (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 4.18 GB) Pretty good shoot of the Vienna run.

First European Tour | March 27, 2010 - Matinée

Annemieke van Dam (Elisabeth), Oliver Arno (Der Tod), Bruno Grassini (Luigi Lucheni), Markus Pol (Franz Joseph), Thomas Hohler (Kronprinz Rudolf), Christa Wettstein (Sophie), Thomas Bayer (Max in Bayern), Matthias Hohne (Rudolf als Kind), Susanna Panzner (Herzogin Ludovika), Martin Rönnebeck, Lars Rindelaub, Guido Gottenbos, Patrick A Stamme, Stefan Stara, Martin Markert, Ronnie Wagner, Roel Bakkum, Esther Hehl, Nadine Gabriel, Alice Macura, Claudia Reinhard, Cornelia Uttinger, Stephanie Sturm, Angela Hunkeler, Claudia Wendrinsky

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 4.18 GB) 

20th Anniversary European Tour | November 6, 2011

Annemieke van Dam (Elisabeth), Oliver Arno (Der Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Luigi Lucheni), Mathias Edenborn (Kaiser Franz Joseph), Martin Markert (Kronprinz Rudolf), Betty Vermeulen (Sophie), Dennis Kozeluh (Max in Bayern), Elissa Huber (Herzogin Ludovika / Frau Wolf), Yannick Mezhoud (Rudolf als Kind), Martin Pasching (Graf Grünne), Lars Rindelaub (Kardinal Rauscher), Thorsten Tinney (Fürst Schwarzenberg), Sven Fliege (Baron Kempen), Ensemble: Gernot Romic, Jan Altenbockum, Sascha Kurth, Ann Christin Elverum, Sophie Blumel, Alice Macura, Kira Primke, Linda Konrad, Marthe Romer, Angela Hunkeler, Sanne Mieloo, Claudia Wendrinsky, Lieselot Meurisse, Martin Planz

NOTES: (VOB + smalls)

20th Anniversary European Tour | February 2012

Annemieke van Dam (Elisabeth), Mark Seibert (Der Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Luigi Lucheni), Mathias Edenborn (Franz Joseph), Oliver Arno (Kronprinz Rudolf), Betty Vermeulen (Sophie), Dennis Kozeluh (Max in Bayern), Elissa Huber (Herzogin Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Benedikt Lucks (Rudolf als Kind)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 4.19 GB)

Shanghai | December 31, 2014

Roberta Valentini (Elisabeth), Mark Seibert (Der Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Luigi Lucheni), Maximilian Mann (Kaiser Franz Joseph), Thomas Hohler (Kronprinz Rudolf), Daniela Ziegler (Sophie), Dennis Kozeluh (Max), Caroline Sommer (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Li Xingyang (Rudolf als Kind)

NOTES: (MOV) Mark Seibert and Li Xingyang (for one night) performed 'Mama, Wo Bist Du' in Chinese as a surprise for the last show of the year!  

Essen | April 7, 2001

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Carsten Lepper (Luigi Lucheni), Michael Shawn Lewis (Franz Joseph), Jesper Tydèn (Kronprinz Rudolf), Gabriele Ramm (Sophie)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 2.2 GB) Includes optional English subtitles and interviews at the end.

Essen | May 5, 2001

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Carsten Lepper (Luigi Lucheni), Michael Shawn Lewis (Franz Joseph), Jesper Tydén (Erzherzog Rudolf)

NOTES: (AVI)

Essen | August 11, 2001

Annika Bruhns (u/s Elisabeth), Brady Swenson (u/s Der Tod), Carsten Lepper (Luigi Lucheni), Michael Shawn Lewis (Franz Joseph), Jesper Tydèn (Kronprinz Rudolf), Gabriele Ramm (Sophie)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 2.28 GB) Sometimes labelled as November 8 2001 

Essen | October 17, 2001

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Jesper Tydén (u/s Der Tod), Carsten Lepper (Lucheni), Michael Shawn Lewis (Franz Joseph), Sven Olaf Denkinger (u/s Rudolf)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls) Highlights, ~83 min, good picture quality though some fuzziness, filming is not quite steady and close-ups are rare. Sometimes just labeled as "Essen 2001". 

Essen | October 27, 2001

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Jesper Tydén (u/s Der Tod), Sascha Oskar Weis (u/s Luigi Lucheni), Michael Shawn Lewis (Franz Joseph), Sven Olaf Denkinger (u/s Kronprinz Rudolf), Gabriele Ramm (Sophie) 

NOTES: (VOB + smalls)

Essen | January 13, 2002 - Pro-Shot

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Carsten Lepper (Luigi Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Jesper Tydén (Kronprinz Rudolf), Gabriele Ramm (Sophie), Claus Dam (Max in Bayern), Annika Bruhns (Herzogin Ludovika)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 4.03 GB) Single cam proshot of Pia Douwes's last show. Audio not from soundboard. Includes three bows and an encore performance. 

Berlin | September 11, 2008

Annemieke van Dam (Elisabeth), Felix Martin (Der Tod), Bruno Grassini (Luigi Lucheni), Markus Pol (Franz Joseph), Oliver Arno (Kronprinz Rudolf), Maike Katrin Schmidt (Sophie)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 8.37 GB)

- Crazy amount of camera wandering and obstruction in Act 1, a lot more can be seen in Act 2, but it's still not the best quality and strays

Miskolc | 2001 (2) - Pro-Shot

Szilvia Nyári (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Tamás Földes (Luigi Lucheni), Erik Molnár (Franz Joseph), Tamás Arany (Kronprinz Rudolf), Éva Komáromy (Sophie)

​NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 3.58 GB) Copy of the 1999 performance

Miskolc | May 7, 2001

Seres Ildikó (Elisabeth), Szabó P. Szilveszter (a Halál), Dolhai Attila (e/c Luigi Lucheni), Arany Tamás (u/s Rudolf)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 4.36 GB) Proving that sometimes emergency covers are great, and sometimes they're... well, interesting might be the most generous word here. Dolhai only played Rudolf up to this point, so the fact that he was called in as e/c for Lucheni shows just how desperate the staff were. (The original Lucheni, Dézsi Szabó Gábor, came down with vocal chord inflammation and the show was originally going to be cancelled, but Dolhai Attila offered to step in and learnt the role in one afternoon. He was assisted by the original Lucheni, prompters, and the conductor.)

Budapest | 2004 - Pro-Shot

Kata Janza (Elisabeth), Szilveszter Szabó (Der Tod), Tamás Földes (Luigi Lucheni), Zoltán Bereczki (Franz Joseph), Attila Dolhai (Kronprinz Rudolf), Piroska Molnár (Sophie), Péter Marik (Max in Bayern), Anikó Felföldi (Herzogin Ludovika)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 8.46 GB)

Baja | August 2014

Vágó Bernadett (Elisabeth), Dolhai Attila (Halál), Kerényi Miklós Máte (Lucheni), Bálint Adam (Ferenc József), Kállay Bori (Zsófia), Gömöri András Máté (Rudolf), Dézsy Szabó Gábor (Max), Felföldi (Wolfné)

NOTES: (MP4 - 1.7 GB) Large Outdoor Stage

Kecskemét | September 24, 2022 - Paprika

Polyák Lilla (Elisabeth), Bori Réka (Fiatal Sisi), Orth Péter (Ferenc Jószef), Koltai-Nagy Balázs (Halál), Szemenyei János (Luigi Lucheni), Märcz Fruzsina (Zsófia főhercegnő), Varga-Huszti Máté (Rudolf főherceg), Szabó Dorottya (Helene/Frau Wolf), Pál Attila (Max, Elisabeth apja), Magyar Éva (Ludovika, Elisabeth anyja), Gyurgik Balázs (Gyermek Rudolf), Kása Gréta (Gyermek Sophie), Körtvélyessy Zsolt (Sírasó), Aradi Imre (Grünne gróf), Sirkó László (Rauscher bíboros), Schupp Gabriella (Ezterházy grófnő), Dros Enikö (Sztáray grófnő/Windisch kisasszony), Lakatos Máté (Hübner báró), Németh Márton (Kempen báró), Kelemen Örs (Schwarzenberg báró), Szigethy Norbert (Andrássy gróf), Vastag István (Batthyány gróf), Németh-Nagy Johanna (Nevelőnő)

NOTES: (MP4 - 2.99 GB) Blindshot from upper balcony. No zooms, and significant washout; you can also see the spotlight beams. Act I is better than Act II in terms of obstruction... Anyway, this is a "not particularly replica" production of Elisabeth, with some interesting directorial choices... Nevertheless, the cast is very strong, and I was genuinely impressed by the actors, the orchestration, the sets and costumes, and the blocking of specific songs. Please gift privately if requested after NFT date has passed. NEVER for sale. Do NOT repost full video on public platforms such as YouTube, Bilibili, Tumblr, VK, etc.

Toho (Second Version) | 2008

Hikaru Asami (Elisabeth), Yuichiro Yamaguchi (der Tod), Hikaru Asami (Elisabeth), Yuichiro Yamaguchi (Tod), Masahiro Takashima (Lucheni), Soma Suzuki (Franz Joseph), Kanata Irei (Rudolf), Hizuru Kotobuki (Sophie), Kunio Murai (Max), Hitomi Harukaze (Ludovika), Hiromi Ito (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: (MP4 - 3.83 GB) Not the commonly-traded blurry video; sharp focus although occasionally shaky. Good video overall!

Toho (Second Version) | September 30, 2005

Maki Ichiro (Elisabeth), Masaaki Uchino (Tod), Masahiro Takashima (Lucheni), Soma Suzuki (Franz Joseph), Yoshio Inoue (Rudolf), Jun Hatsukaze (Sophie), Kunio Murai (Max), Hitomi Harukaze (Ludovika), Hiromi Ito (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 5.45 GB) Inoue (as Rudolf) and Uchino's last. Some slight head obstruction. Good sound. Amazing video quality and close-ups.

Toho (Second Version) | May 12, 2006 - Matinée

Maki Ichiro (Elisabeth), Shinji Takeda (Der Tod), Takashima Masachiro (Luigi Lucheni), Zen Ishikawa (Franz Joseph), Kenji Urai (Kronprinz Rudolf), Hizuru Kotobuki (Sophie), Kunio Murai (Max in Bayern), Hiromi Ito (Herzogin Ludovika)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 7.93 GB)

Toho (Second Version) | August 9, 2008 - Matinée

​Mayo Suzukaze (Elisabeth), Shinji Takeda (Tod), Masahiro Takashima (Lucheni), Soma Suzuki (Franz Joseph), Kenji Urai (Rudolf), Jun Hatsukaze (Sophie), Kunio Murai (Max), Hitomi Harukaze (Ludovika), Hiromi Ito (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls) Poor quality, mostly wideshot, lot of washout, slight color bleeding and head obstruction. Overloaded sound. Includes fragment form evening performance (from Milch! till ending of Act 1) with Hikaru Asami (Elisabeth) and Yuichiro Yamaguchi (Tod), the rest of the cast is the same, picture quality is slightly better because camera is closer to stage. 

Toho (Second Version) | October 19, 2010

Jun Sena (Elisabeth), Yuichiro Yamaguchi (Tod), Masahiro Takashima (Lucheni), Zen Ishikawa (Franz Joseph), Kenji Urai (Rudolf), Kaeiki Mori (Sophie), Kunio Murai (Max), Hitomi Harukaze (Ludovika), Hiromi Ito (Frau Wolf), Shun Kikuchi (Little Rudolf)

NOTES: (MP4 - 2.3 GB) 

Toho (Second Version) | August 4, 2012 - Matinée

Sumire Haruno (Elisabeth), Yuichiro Yamaguchi (Tod), Masahiro Takashima (Lucheni), Kohki Okada (Franz Joseph), Genki Hirakata (Rudolf), Keaki Mori (Sophie), Kiyotaka Imai (Max), Hitomi Harukaze (Ludovika), Hiromi Ito (Frau Wolf), Eru Yamada (Little Rudolf)

NOTES: (MP4) Includes post-show talk

Toho (Third Version) | 2016 - Pro-Shot

Mari Hanafusa (Elisabeth), Yoshio Inoue (Der Tod), Songha (Luigi Lucheni), Mario Tashiro (Franz Joseph), Yuta Furukawa (Kronprinz Rudolf), Tatsuki Kohju (Sophie), Michihiro Otani (Max in Bayern), Yuki Mirai (Herzogin Ludovika), Yuki Mirai (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: (MKV - 16.09 GB) ​Black version». Official release. Recorded Summer of 2016.

Toho (Third Version) | July 2016 - Pro-Shot

Mari Hanafusa (Elisabeth), Yu Shirota (Der Tod), Ikusaburo Yamazaki (Luigi Lucheni), Sato Takanori (Franz Joseph), Yuta Furukawa (Kronprinz Rudolf), Mayo Suzukaze (Sophie), Michihiro Otani (Max in Bayern), Yuki Mirai (Herzogin Ludovika), Yuki Mirai (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: (MKV - 8.14 GB) White version». Official release.

Star Troupe | 1997 - Pro-Shot

Asaji Saki (Der Tod), Shiraki Ayaka (Elisabeth), Minoru Kou (Franz Joseph), Shibuki Jun (Lucheni), Emao Yuu (Rudolph)

NOTES: (AVI - 2.21 GB) Final Takarazuka performance for Shiraki Ayaka who played Elisabeth.  The run first began 8/11/1996, mere months after the end of the Snow Troupe's version of Elisabeth. 

Cosmos Troupe | October 30, 1998

Mari Hanafusa (Elisabeth), Asato Shizuki (Der Tod), Wataru Kozuki (Luigi Lucheni), Youka Wao (Franz Joseph), Hikaru Asami (Kronprinz Rudolf), Aya Izumo (Sophie), Misao Hoshihara (Max in Bayern), Mayo Hatsune (Rudolf als Kind), Hizuru Kou (Herzogin Ludovika), Saya Suzano (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 5.31 GB) Opening night ​

Moon Troupe | February 25, 2005- Pro-Shot

Jun Sena (Elisabeth), Nao Ayaki (Der Tod), Hiromu Kiriya (Luigi Lucheni), Midori Hatsukaze (Franz Joseph), Yuhi Ozora (Kronprinz Rudolf), Anri Mimi (Sophie), Misao Hoshihara (Max in Bayern), Oto Ayana (Rudolf als Kind), Yura Natsukawa (Herzogin Ludovika), Eri Yoshizuki (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: Official release. Moon Troupe. Pro-shot. Includes 10 minutes of rehearsal footage. (VOB + smalls - 4.36 GB)

Snow Troupe | 2007 - Pro-Shot

Shirahane Yuri (Elisabeth), Mizu Natsuki (Der Tod), Otozuki Kei (Luigi Lucheni), Ayabuki Mao (Franz Joseph), Ouki Kaname (Kronprinz Rudolf), Yuki Mirai (Sophie)

NOTES: (MP4)

Flower Troupe | September 14, 2014 - Pro-Shot

Ranno Hana (Elisabeth), Asumi Rio (Der Tod), Fuuto Nozomi (Luigi Lucheni), Kairi Hokushou (Franz Joseph), Rei Yuzuka (Kronprinz Rudolf), Ichika Sakura (Sophie)

NOTES: (MKV - 7.16 GB) English subtitles included 

Osaka (Vereinigte Bühnen Wien) | April 9, 2007

Ruth Kraus (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Bruno Grassini (Luigi Lucheni), Markus Pol (Franz Joseph), Lukas Perman (Kronprinz Rudolf), Christa Wettstein (Sophie), Dennis Kozeluh (Max in Bayern), Maike Switzer (Herzogin Ludovika), Maike Switzer (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 4.8 GB) Based on 2003 Vienna production. This is commonly known as Sep 4 but is probably Apr 9 as the tour was not in Osaka then.

Scheveningen | October 19, 1999 - Pro-Shot

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Stanley Burleson (Der Tod), Wim van den Driessche (Luigi Lucheni), Jeroen Phaff (Franz Joseph), Addo Kruizinga (Kronprinz Rudolf), Doris Baaten (Sophie), Nico Schaap (Max in Bayern)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 4.34 GB) Multi-cam 

St. Petersburg | September 30, 2018 - Pro-Shot

Maria Kavadeyeva (Elisabeth), Elena Sivkova (Tod), Viktor Tabishev (Lucheni), Alexey Semyonov (Franz Joseph), Aslan Tikuyev (Rudolf), Tatyana Vodneva (Sophie), Svetlana Petrushenko (Ludovika), Elizaveta Umetskaya (Frau Wolf)

NOTES: Two versions: (AVI - 3.36 GB; MKV - 3.23 GB) Single-camera proshot of the closing night of an amateur production by “Виртуозы” (“Virtuosos”) musical school. Male roles played by males except Tod.

Thun | 2006 - Pro-Shot

Willemijn Verkaik (Elisabeth), Christoph Goetten (Der Tod), Sergio-Maurice Vaglio (Luigi Lucheni), Jan-Martin Machler (Franz Joseph), Nico Gaik (Kronprinz Rudolf), Manuela Floryan (Sophie)

NOTES: (VOB + smalls - 4.22 GB) A mix of pro-shot footage of the show and lots of backstage and rehearsal shots