Elisabeth — The Hit Musical

ELISABETH The Musi­cal opened in Sep­tem­ber 1992 at the The­ater an der Wien in Vienna, Aus­tria. Since then, not one day has gone by with­out at least one per­for­mance of this mas­ter­piece drama musi­cal — some­where on Earth.

ELISABETH, by Michael Kunze (libretto and lyrics) and Sylvester Levay (music), is the most suc­cess­ful German-language musi­cal ever, with gross receipts sur­pass­ing by far even the great­est film pro­duc­tions in the his­tory of the Euro­pean enter­tain­ment industry.

Musical Elisabeth

The Musi­cal Elisabeth

In this historically-accurate yet time­less tale of a coura­geous woman’s fight against the cruel restric­tions of life at the Vien­nese Court, we wit­ness Elisabeth’s trans­for­ma­tion from sui­ci­dal weak­ness to immense power and influence.

Her ini­tial love affair with death gives way to new self-confidence and lust for life with no bound­aries. Europe lays at the feet of the most beau­ti­ful Empress of Aus­tria and Hungary.

But Death is not one to con­cede defeat, easily!

Elisabeth’s resis­tance to the demons of her past is put to a num­ber of severe tests, and only her tremen­dous inner strength can guide her through the tur­moils of her pub­lic and pri­vate lives.

Will Death prevail?

As the record num­bers of return vis­i­tors show, Elisabeth’s story cap­tures the hearts of its rapidly-growing inter­na­tional fan com­mu­nity, over and over and over again.