Tags: Musical.
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. It portrays the life and death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I. It 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.