Elisabeth

Drama - 1997

All female theater Takarazuka’s production of the musical which portrays the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and how she danced with Death , from her engagement and marriage in 1854 to her murder in 1898 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni. The empress whose tumultuous life is veiled in mystery is retold through the narrative of Death and his pursuit of love for her.