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Elisabeth — 20th Anniversary Performance @ Die Helene Fischer Show (2012)

(watermarks removed by me)

Ock Joo-Hyun (Korea)

Maike Boerdam (Netherlands)

Therese Karlsson (Finland)

Ichiro Maki (Japan)

Sofie De Schryver (Cover Elisabeth)

Elisabeth Germany Tour (Füssen)

Some glorious wigs in Elisabeth Productions

Essen, Germany — obviously the trendsetter, chef's kiss

ft. Pia Douwes, Annika Bruhns

Pilsen, Czech Republic — no explanation necessary, just look at the length

ft. Soňa Hanzlíčková

Takarazuka Flower Troupe, Japan — the design blending into her jacket is perfection

ft. Asumi Rio

Toho, Japan — most wigs post-2015 are good and have beautiful movement. And I love that all Tods get different wigs complementing their individual styles.

ft. Reika Manaki, Yuta Furukawa

Elisabeth Germany Tour Premiere (12.12.24)

📍 Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein, Füssen

Also ✨ Lukas Eye Makeup ✨ pop off 👑

Ромео и Джульетта / Roméo et Juliette Dress Rehearsals

Costumes by Rita Velich (Hungary)

Juliette's Nurse – Elena Gazaeva

Lady Capulet – Natalia Dievskaya, Anastasia Vishnevskaya

Romeo – Vladislav Getze

Tybalt – Maxim Kazakov

Friar Laurent – Rostislav Kolpakov

Lady Montague – Maria Lagatskaya-Zimina

Preview of Roberta Valentini as Elisabeth ✨

(ft. Sophie slow-walking to her death)

Germany Tour Rehearsals.

EPIC CHOREO + PEAK ART DIRECTION ✨

Elisabeth das Musical, Germany Tour Rehearsals.

Why ruin something that was already perfect?

Literally every newer non-german production with a quarter of a budget of VBW has tried to incorporate something new into the source material. I'm not saying every interpretation or costume/staging worked in favour, but at least there's effort and a certain vision.

VBW has no right to keep serving us a watered-down version of a genuinely spectacular and deeply beloved musical.

(Also the audacity to call it the Celebrated Schönbrunn Version 🤔)

The vines in the Heinrich designs were created to represent death and decay. Sissi wore a dirndl in Wie Du as she hailed from Bavaria. The set design incorporated elements inspired by Habsburg carriages/hearses.

So what exactly do the new changes bring to the table?

Der Tod's veil is stripped away and replaced with a meme-worthy toy. He went from having 4 stunning well-crafted outfits to ONE painfully boring fit in the entire show.

Tod and Rudolf's relationship is diminished to the point where it no longer represents its original depth or significance.

Rondo is a misfit and doesn't even appear anywhere else in the show unlike the intended Japanese/Hungarian versions.

There is no glitz, no glamour, and most importantly the storytelling is compromised. Literally everything the musical stood for is reduced to nothing.

Most upsetting of all is the clear disregard VBW shows for the audience, who adore the musical and deserve more than this cheap execution, and for the immensely talented cast, who deserve a production worthy of their skills.

Elisabeth — French Production (2022) @bruxellons

Costumes by Béatrice Guilleaume

Pia Douwes for Elisabeth, Schönbrunn Version (2019)

They didn't even bother adjusting the bodice and the skirt in the fourth pic 😭

Elisabeth Lithuanian Production (2022)

Costumes by Kotryna Daujotaitė

Marija Arutiunova as Elisabeth (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1864)

Elisabeth das Musical — Kaunas, Lithuania (2022)

Costumes by Kotryna Daujotaitė

Michael Kunze then: Ah, the fall of the Habsburg Empire 🗿

Michael Kunze now: Ah, the fall of Elisabeth das Musical 🤡

The official Russian Production of Roméo et Juliette / Мюзикл «Ромео и Джульетта» is set to premiere at the St. Petersburg Theatre of Musical Comedy (Muzcomedy)

This version is also directed/produced by KERO © Rómeó és Júlia (Hungary) so most likely it will be similar in staging to the one in Budapest Operetta Theatre.

Main Cast:

Romeo — Nikita Braga, Aleksandr Kazmin, Vladislav Getze

Juliette — Aleksandra Kasparova, Polina Belyaeva

Le Prince de Vérone — Kirill Gordeev, Dmitry Ermak, Ivan Ozhogin, Vladimir Yarosh

Mercutio — Ruslan Iskenderov, Nikita Slednev

Benvolio — Artem Mizhenkov, Andrey Suntsov

Tybalt — Stanislav Baksaraev, Maxim Kazakov

Frère Laurent — Rostislav Kolpakov, Ivan Ozhogin, Aleksandr Sukhanov

La Nurse — Agata Vavilova, Elena Gazaeva

The lineups along with the final cast will be updated here.

Éljen, Éljen, Erzsébet!

Some interpretations of the Hungarian Tricolours (Red, White, Green) in different Elisabeth Productions

Portrait by Franz Russ Jr. (1869) & Anonymous

Mari Hanafusa, Hana Ranno (Toho, 2016)

Jo Jung Eun, Ock Joo Hyun (Korea, 2015/2013)

Asami Hikaru / Yu Shirota (Toho, 2010)

Jun Sena / Máté Kamaraś (Toho, 2012)

Reika Manaki (Takarazuka, 2018)

Toho Elisabeth Pamphlet (2015)

今こそ お前を, 黄泉の世界へ迎えよう (Now it's time, I welcome you to the world of the dead.)

Maya singing Ich gehör in Chinese at the World Expo meetup in Shanghai (2010). I remember she also performed this in Italian during the Trieste run in 2005.

Nicole Sieger was Elisabeth's understudy in the original Vienna production.

And here's Uwe and Nicole performing Der Schleier fällt in 1992.

Fellas, this gem of an edit needs to be appreciated 🤌🏻🫂✨

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From Dennis's IG (I miss them sm 🥺)

Elisabeth China served us real good 🤌🏻✨🫶🏻

🔮 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝑃𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑅𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 🔮

Maya in the Heinrich Coronation Gown. I love the lace on the sleeves and veil sm ⋆. 𐙚 ˚

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Rudolf: Mama I'm seeing someone

Elisabeth: As in dating or hallucinations?

Rudolf: YES!

𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐞𝐧, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 (𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝)

Maya Hakvoort (Sissi), Steven Seale (Der Tod), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Jesper Tydén (Rudolf)

Alice Macura and Mark Seibert (2013)

Maya Hakvoort in Elisabeth (2003)

*watermark removed + upscaled* although i fear tumblr will reduce quality. you can clearly see the details on the dress. it's a shame we went from this to the plain satin gown.

Removed watermarks from some old pics 🔮

𝑹𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒄𝒂 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒉𝒂𝒊 🪞

“𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒏.”

— Graf von Krolock in his interview with Vogue