The show opens in the "world of the dead", where Luigi Lucheni is being interrogated by a Judge as to why he has murdered the Empress Elisabeth. Lucheni claims that he did no more than what Elisabeth herself wanted, since all her life Elisabeth has been in love with Death himself – and vice...
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...
The recording of his birthday concert in December in the Vienna Stadthalle with special guest Pia Douwes offers a foray through his musical career - from his beginnings to his current successes. The big hits from musicals such as Elisabeth, Starlight Express, The Rocky Horror Show, The Phantom of...
In 2011, Frank Wildhorn & Friends bring everything that makes musicals great to the Ronacher in Vienna. Pia Douwes, Thomas Borchert and Broadways Linda Eder tell stories - namely those that Wildhorn has entrusted to them.
