The Republic of Austria videos of Elisabeth das Musical
Vienna, Theater an der Wien (3.09.1992-25.04.1998)
25 August 1992 (Rehearsal); Vienna, Austria Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Tod), Ethan Freeman (Lucheni), Viktor Gernot (Franz Joseph), Andreas Bieber (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie) Dress rehearsal without audience. Multi-cam proshot, soundboard. Performance stops many times. Heavy generation loss: video sometimes switches to b&w, flickering and glitchy picture, bad sound quality. Half of "Eljen!" and fully "Mama, wo bist du?" are audio only. Permanent timer in right bottom corner. VOB|1 DVD|3.13 GB
29 August 1992 (Rehearsal); Vienna, Austria Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Tod), Ethan Freeman (Lucheni) Viktor Gernot (Franz Joseph), Andreas Bieber (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie) Marvelous quality for such quite old video. Dress rehearsal without an audience. Multi-cam proshot, soundboard. Dark blue tint colors the entire video, performance stops several times. VOB|1 DVD|2.33 GB
5 September 1992; Vienna, Austria Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Tod), Ethan Freeman (Luigi Lucheni), Viktor Gernot (Franz Joseph), Andreas Bieber (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie) Shaky filming, quiet sound. Filmed 2 days after the opening night. VOB|1 DVD|2.05 GB
26 December 1992; Vienna, Austria Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Tod), Ethan Freeman (Lucheni), Viktor Gernot (Franz Joseph), Andreas Bieber (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie) Single-cam proshot. VOD|2 DVD|7.69 GB
1993; Vienna, Austria Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Thomas Borchert (Tod u/s) Tod-oriented highlights, ~22 min. VOB|1 DVD|0.74 GB
17 April 1994; Vienna, Austria* Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Tod), Thomas Borchert (Lucheni), Else Ludwig (Sophie) Pia's last performance. Permanent date stamp on 2nd act. 2 versions available: Version 1: Better quality but missing last seconds of show. 1st screenshot. VOB|1 DVD|2.85 GB Version 2: Heavy generation loss but nothing is missed. VOB|1 DVD|3.96 GB
6 October 1994; Vienna, Austria Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Tod), Viktor Gernot (Franz Joseph), Else Ludwig (Sophie) Uwe’s last performance in this production. 2 versions available: Version 1: Missing curtain calls but les generation and transfer losses. VOB|2 DVD|8.00 GB missing smalls for DVD 2 Version 2*: Quality is a bit worse but this one includes curtain calls, English version of "Ich gehör nur mir" and a TV documentary. 3rd screenshot. VOB|1 DVD|3.36 GB
25 & 26 November 1995; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Addo Kruizinga (Tod), Matthias Kostya (Lucheni) Highlights from 2 shows. I suppose that both of them were filmed by the same person. Filming quality is not bad, with great close-ups, but it's shaky sometimes. Heavy generation loss, color bleeding with flickering. Permanent date stamp on 26 November video. Also contains 14.09.1996 video which is also available separately in different quality. ~1 hour and 16 minutes for both videos. ~46 minutes for 25 November and ~30 minutes for 26 November video. Placed in next order: 26.11.1995, 25.11.1995, 14.09.1996, screenshots below are in same order. VOB|1 DVD|5.76 GB
27 November 1995; Vienna, Austria Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Addo Kruizinga (Tod), Matthias Kostya (Lucheni), Leon van Leeuwenberg (Franz Joseph), Thomas Harke (Rudolf) Highlights. VOB|1 DVD|1.50 GB
19 July 1996; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Paul Kribbe (Tod), Matthias Kostya (Lucheni), Leon van Leeuwenburg (Franz Joseph), Thomas Harke (Rudolf), Isabel Weicken (Sophie), Wolfgang Pampel (Max) Great picture. Highlights, ~1h 35m. VOB|1 DVD|3.13 GB
29 July 1996; Vienna, Austria* Suzan Zeichner (Elisabeth u/s), Paul Kribbe (Tod), Bruno Grassini (Lucheni u/s), Leon van Leeuwenberg (Franz Joseph), Thomas Harke (Rudolf) Blurry picture almost all the time. VOB|1 DVD|3.41 GB
14 September 1996; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Christian Venzke (Tod u/s), Matthias Kostya (Lucheni), Leon van Leeuwenberg (Franz Joseph), Thomas Harke (Rudolf), Isabel Weicken (Sophie) Highlights, ~32 min. VOB|1 DVD|1.14 GB
July 1997; Vienna Austria Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Matthias Kostya (Lucheni), Leon van Leeuwenberg (Franz Joseph), Thomas Harke (Rudolf), Isabel Weicken (Sophie), Dennis Kozeluh (Max) Uwe's guest performance. Some scenes weren't filmed. VOB|1 DVD|4.14 GB
4 April 1998; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Felix Martin (Tod), Thomas Borchert (Lucheni), Léon van Leeuwenbrg (Franz Joseph), Thomas Harke (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Wolfgang Pampel (Max), Susanne Altschul (Ludovika/Frau Wolf) Single-cam proshot, maybe soundboard. Sound is hissing and quiet. VOB|2 DVD|6.61 GB
12 April 1998; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Felix Martin (Der Tod), Thomas Borchert (Lucheni) VOB|2 DVD|4.96 GB
2 March or 25 April 1998; Vienna, Austria Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Felix Martin (Tod), Bruno Grassini (Lucheni u/s) Listed as the last performance but permanent date stamp on act 2 shows different date. I don't know why was it marked as last performance but maybe it's because the audience was loud as hell. VOB|1 DVD|2.08 GB
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus (21.10.2002) 10th Anniversary Concert
21 October 2002; Vienna, Austria Pia Douwes, Uwe Kröger, Ethan Freeman, Thomas Borchert, Carsten Lepper, Maya Hakvoort, Maike Boerdam, Andreas Bieber, Jesper Tydén, Felix Martin, Stanley Burleson, Jeroen Phaff, Victor Gernot, Michael Shawn Lewis, Kata Janza, Szabó P. Szilveszter, Cecilie Nerfont, Maki Ichiro 10th anniversary concert. VOB|1 DVD|3.07 GB
Vienna, Theater an der Wien (3.10.2003-4.12.2005)
12 December 2003; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Maté Kamarás (Tod), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Serkan Kaya (Lucheni), Lukas Perman (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie) Generation loss and shaky filming, permanent time stamp. Additionally includes some Elisabeth- and Maté- related clips from 2 shows of Donauinselfest and a TV report about the Elisabeth 2003 production. Also there's a Maté (as Herbert) oriented highlights of TDV, probably from the 11.09.1999 though I need to check to say for sure. VOB|1 DVD|2.14 GB
12 & 19 December 2003; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Maté Kamarás (Tod), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Lukas Perman/Jesper Tyden (Rudolf), Serkan Kaya (Lucheni) Contains 12 December video above in worse quality (without time stamp though) and 19 December choppy highlights, ~42 min. Also includes fragment of Maté's concert. First video was originally dated as 13 December but I'm pretty sure it's the one above. VOB|1 DVD|2.78 GB
19 December 2003 & 2004; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Maté Kamarás/Rob Fowler (Tod), Serkan Kaya (Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph) Includes highlights with Maté above with better quality (3rd picture) and video with Fowler from Mayerling kiss onward. VOB|1 DVD|0.82 GB
2003 or 2004; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Maté Kamarás (Tod), Serkan Kaya (Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Jesper Tydén (Rudolf), Lenneke Wilemsen (Sophie u/s), Dennis Kozeluh (Max), Jacqueline Braun (Ludovika/Frau Wolf u/s) VOB|1 DVD|2.16 GB
2004; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Steven Seale (Tod u/s), Serkan Kaya (Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Jesper Tydén (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie) Pretty good video overall but heavy spotlight washout. VOB|2 DVD|4.68 GB
1 November 2004; Vienna, Austria* Ruth Kraus (Elisabeth u/s), Maté Kamarás (Tod), Serkan Kaya (Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Lukas Perman (Rudolf), Lenneke Willemsen (Sophie u/s) Amazing quality with great close-ups, one head on the way. Same master as video below. VOB|2 DVD|7.20 GB
20 December 2004; Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Steven Seale (Tod u/s), Serkan Kaya (Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Fritz Schmidt (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie) The whole "Kitsch!" here is from video above, filmed by the same master. No obstruction here. Also can be listed as 4 June but I don't think that's true. VOB|2 DVD|7.17 GB
3 January 2005; Vienna, Austria Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Maté Kamarás (Tod), Björn Breckheimer (Lucheni u/s), André Bauer (Franz Joseph) VOB|2 DVD|6.96 GB
Vienna, Raimund Theater (5.09.2012-1.02.2014)
2012; Vienna, Austria* Annemieke van Dam (Elisabeth), Mark Seibert (Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Lucheni), Franziskus Hartenstein (Franz Joseph), Anton Zetterholm (Rudolf), Daniela Ziegler (Sophie), Christian Peter Hauser (Max) Five very compressed multi-cam proshot Act 1 clips of Prolog, Der letzte Tanz, Ich gehör nur mir, Milch and Sie passt nicht, soundboard sound. Possibly ripped from a streaming service but I didn't manage to find it on YouTube. MP4|0.08 GB
11 December 2012; Vienna, Austria* Alice Macura (Elisabeth u/s), Mark Seibert (Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Lucheni), Franziskus Hartenstein (Franz Joseph), Anton Zetterholm (Rudolf), Dagmar Hellberg (Sophie), Carin Filipčić (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Christian Peter Hauser (Max), Radovan Jovic (Little Rudolf) Act 2 only. I think there is a first act around as well. VOB|1 DVD|2.90 GB
22 March 2013; Vienna, Austria* Annemieke van Dam (Elisabeth), Mark Seibert (Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Lucheni), Franziskus Hartenstein (Franz Joseph), Anton Zetterholm (Rudolf), Daniela Ziegler (Sophie), Carin Filipčić (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Christian Peter Hauser (Max), Aeneas Hollweg (Little Rudolf) Spotlight washout, otherwise great video. VOB|1 DVD|4.17 GB
8 & 9 June 2013; Vienna, Austria* Janneke Ivankova (Elisabeth u/s), Mark Seibert (Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Lucheni), Franziskus Hartenstein (Franz Josef), Dagmar Hellberg (Sophie), Lukas Perman (Rudolf), Christian Peter Hauser (Max), Carin Filipčić (Ludovika/Frau Wolf) Wrong aspect ration (4:3 instead of 16:9), still decent video. VOB|2 DVD|5.88 GB
26 June 2013; Vienna, Austria* Janneke Ivankova (Elisabeth u/s), Mark Seibert (Tod), Kurosch Abbasi (Lucheni), Jörn Felix Alt (Franz Joseph u/s), Gernot Romic (u/s Rudolf), Daniela Ziegler (Sophie), Carin Filipčić (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Christian Peter Hauser (Max), Aeneas Hollweg (Little Rudolf) VOB|1 DVD|4.18 GB missing smalls
18 October 2013; Vienna, Austria Annemieke van Dam (Elisabeth), Oliver Arno (Tod e/c), Kurosch Abbasi (Lucheni), Franziskus Hartenstein (Franz Joseph), Lukas Perman (Rudolf), Caroline Sommer (Sophie u/s), Bettina Bogdany (Ludovika/Frau Wolf u/s), Christian Peter Hauser (Max) VOB|1 DVD|4.17 GB missing smalls
Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace (30.06 - 02.07.2022)
30 June 2022 (Premiere); Vienna, Austria* Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Abla Alaoui (Young Elisabeth), Mark Seibert (Tod), David Jakobs (Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Lukas Perman (Rudolf), Daniela Ziegler (Sophie), Katja Berg (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Hans Neblung (Max), Niklas Petzer (Little Rudolf) Recording of a TV livestream devoted to the 30th anniversary of the musical. Apart from the show itself, the recording also features a documentary and varios pre-show content like interviews etc. MP4|4.60 GB