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Elisabeth is a Viennese, German-language musical commissioned by the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (VBW), with book/lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay. Based on the tragic life and death of legendary Austrian Empress, Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi") wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I. It is narrated from beyond the grave by Luigi Lucheni, the Italian anarchist who assassinated her in 1898. Elisabeth recounts the enthralling tale of her fatal, lifelong love affair with Death, heralding the decline of the Habsburg Empire. Focussing on Elisabeth’s struggle against the stifling constraints of imperial protocol, her determination to assert her own identity, her reaction to the tragic fate of her son, Rudolf, and her morbidly romantic, lifelong love affair with Death–who is here presented as a dashing and darkly charming seducer. For more than two decades now, ELISABETH has been playing in a class of its own: since its world premiere in 1992 at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, the musical 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.
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Fan Casting Death(Der Tod/ God of Death/ Grim Reaper)

Role added by sy_syara on February 20, 2019

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Description of Death (Der Tod/ God of Death/ Grim Reaper):

Personification of death or Grim Reaper. Presented as Elisabeth’s dark and seductive lover. Death is a dashing, handsome, sensual young man and have androgynous looks. Also cunning & manipulative. By appearance who is fascinated by Elisabeth just as she is by him, He always try to comfort & seduce her, but she never returned his affection. He admits that he loves her, but initially rejects her advances, taking instead her infant daughter and befriending her young son, Rudolf. Rebuffed in turn by Elisabeth, Death incites Rudolf to oppose his father, manipulate him, which ultimately leads to the former’s suicide.

 

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