ELISABETH – Budapest, Hungary – 2007

Bernadett Vágó (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Tamás Száraz (Luigi Lucheni), Ádám Bálint (Franz Joseph), Dávid Szabó (Kronprinz Rudolf), Veronika Nádasi (Sophie) Notes: Original avi converted to DVD

ELISABETH – Essen, Germany – January 13, 2002

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Carsten Lepper (Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz-Joseph), Jesper Tydén (Rudolf). Notes: Pia Douwes’s last show in Essen. Shot on a tripod, almost proshot. Includes curtain calls and speeches. Pia does an acoustic English version of ‘Ich Gehör Nur Mir’ as part of her speech.

ELISABETH – Essen, Germany – June 29, 2003

Maike Boerdam (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Alex Melcher (Luigi Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Martin Pasching (Kronprinz Rudolf), Gabriele Ramm (Sophie), Annika Bruhns (Herzogin Ludovika) Notes: DVD made for the cast with song snippets, backstage views and afterparty

ELISABETH – Essen, Germany – March 22, 2001

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Carsten Lepper (Luigi Lucheni), Michael Shawn Lewis (Franz Joseph), Gabriele Ramm (Erzherzogin Sophie), Jesper Tydén (Erzherzog Rudolf) Notes: Monitor video. Opening Night

ELISABETH – Scheveningen, The Netherlands – October 31, 1999

Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Stanley Burleson (Der Tod), Wim van den Driessche (Luigi Lucheni), Jeroen Phaff (Franz Joseph), Addo Kruizinga (Kronprinz Rudolf), Doris Baaten (Sophie), Nico Schaap (Max in Bayern) Notes: Most of the time this is a stage shot though there are occasional zooms and the camera is occasionally recentered.

ELISABETH – St. Petersburg, Russia – September 3, 2018

Maria Kavadeyeva (Elisabeth), Elena Sivkova (Tod), Viktor Tabishev (Lucheni), Alexey Semyonov (Franz Joseph), Aslan Tikuyev (Rudolf), Tatyana Vodneva (Sophie), Svetlana Petrushenko (Ludovika), Elizaveta Umetskaya (Frau Wolf) Notes: Closing night of an amateur production by “Виртуозы” (“Virtuosos”) musical school. Male roles played by males except Tod.

ELISABETH – Vienna, Austria – September 15, 2005

Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Serkan Kaya (Luigi Lucheni), André Bauer (Franz Joseph), Else Ludwig (Erzherzogin Sophie), Fritz Schmid (Erzherzog Rudolf), Dennis Kozeluh (Herzog Max in Bayern), Kerstin Ibald (Gräfin Esterházy-Liechtenstein)

EVITA – Antwerp, Belgium – 1987

Vera Mann, Bill van Dijk, Marijn Devalck, David Davidse, Wanda Joosten Notes: Some generation loss. Good quality (especially for it’s age). There’s a “buzzing sound” throughout the show, but the dvd is very watchable. There are some lovely close-ups.