Summary
The Musical tells the story of Elisabeth ("Sissi") the Empress of Austria from her engagement and marriage in 1854 to her murder in 1898 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni, through the lense of her growing obsession with Death as her marriage and her empire crumble around her at the turn of the century.
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