#Sisi und Ich

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Sisi & I (2023) dir. Frauke Finsterwalder

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SISI & ICH (2023), dir. Frauke Finsterwalder

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Hello hello! Somehow it’s mid-january already, 2023 has flown by at Mach 10 speed, and better late than never, here's my favourite films of 2023 (meaning that left the most lasting impression on me). This is still going to probably change in the next few days, but here’s my fluid Top 20 at the moment. Disclaimer: I have included films that were released late 2022 (particularly in France) that I watched in 2023. 1. ANATOMIE D'UNE CHUTE (dir. Justine Triet) 2. JE VERRAI TOUJOURS VOS VISAGES (dir. Jeanne Herry) 3. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (dir. Martin Scorsese) 4. SHE SAID (dir. Maria Schrader) 5. THE HOLDOVERS (dir. Alexander Payne) 6. CORSAGE (dir. Marie Kreutzer) 7. PAST LIVES (dir. Celine Song) 8. SIMPLE COMME SYLVAIN (dir. Monia Chokri) 9. LE RÈGNE ANIMAL (dir. Thomas Cailley) 10. OPPENHEIMER (dir. Christopher Nolan) 11. A THOUSAND AND ONE (dir. A.V. Rockwell) 12. ANNIE COLÈRE (dir. Blandine Lenoir) 13. THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY (dir. Morrisa Maltz) 14. SISI & ICH (dir. Frauke Finsterwalder) 15. REALITY (dir. Tina Satter) 16. SALTBURN (dir. Emerald Fennell) 17. MAY DECEMBER (dir. Todd Haynes) 18. PASSAGES (dir. Ira Sachs) 19. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET (dir. Kelly Fremon Craig) 20. BARBIE (dir. Greta Gerwig)

I’m also proud to have completed the 52 Films Directed by Women Challenge! Here's the list in case you're looking for something interesting to watch: 52 Films by Women | 2023 challenge I’m hoping for a gentle 2024 for everyone, we all need it. Big love 💗

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Sisi & Ich Director Frauke Finsterwalder

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Susanne Wolff and Sandra Hüller as Empress Elisabeth and Countess Irma Sztáray in Sisi & Ich (2023).

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Watching the lesbian Sisi movie rn and by god yeah

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We can say many things about the latest Sisi adaptations but to be honest I'm glad (most of them) were so open about how inaccurate they were from the very beginning. No one tried to convince us they were super serious biopics.

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period drama list (2000-2025)

a/n: Beim Durchstöbern von einigen Faceclaim Listen auf Tumblr fiel mir auf, dass ich total viele Filme und Serien gar nicht kenne und vielleicht geht es einigen von euch genauso. Daher dachte ich mir, für alle, die sich gerne einen period drama fc für boaf suchen möchten oder auch Interesse an The Voice of the Rose von @shellyscosplay haben, sei das sicherlich ganz praktisch. c: Hoffe ich zumindest. Einige europäische und koreanische Produktionen sind auch mit dabei. Aber sicherlich sind mir auch einige Filme und Serien entgangen. Es gibt definitiv zu viele Werke, die The im Titel tragen. 😅

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100 Days my Prince (2018)

1899 (2022)

A,B,C.

Anna Karenina (2012)

Anne with an E (2017)

Beecham House (2019)

Becoming Jane (2007)

Becoming Elizabeth (2022)

Belgravia (2020)

Belle (2013)

Bridgerton (2020)

Borgia (2011)

Charité (2017)

Cinderella (2015)

Crimson Peak (2015)

D,E,F.

Die Glasbläserin (2019)

Dickinson (2019)

Doctor Thorne (2016)

Downton Abbey (2010)

Eiffel (2021)

Emily (2022)

Emma (2009)

Emma (2020)

G,H,I.

Great Expectations (2023)

Harlots (2017)

Howard’s End (2017)

J,K,L.

Jamestown (2017)

Jane Eyre (2011)

La Belle et la Bête (2014)

Little Women (2017)

Little Women (2019)

M,N,O.

Mansfield Park (2007)

Mary & George (2024)

Merlin (2008)

Mirror, Mirror (2012)

Mr. Malcolm’s List (2022)

Mr. Queen (2020)

My Lady Jane (2024)

Northanger Abbey (2007)

North and South (2004)

Nosferatu (2024)

Outlander (2014)

P,Q,R.

Persuasion (2007)

Poldark (2015)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023)

Radioactive (2019)

Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung (2019)

S,T,U.

Sanditon (2019)

Secret Royal Inspector & Joy (2021)

Shōgun (2024)

Sisi (2021)

The Artful Dodger (2024)

The Buccaneers (2023)

The Empress (2022)

The English Game (2020)

The Favourite (2018)

The Great (2020)

The Gilded Age (2022)

The Medici (2016)

The Musketeers (2014)

The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

The Pursuit of Love (2021)

The Scandalous Lady W (2015)

The Serpent Queen (2022)

The Spanish Princess (2019)

The Tale of Nokdu (2019)

The White Princess (2017)

The White Queen (2013)

Tom Jones (2023)

Under the Queen’s Umbrella. (2022)

V,W,X,Y,Z.

Vanity Fair (2018)

Victoria (2016)

Widow Clicquot (2023)

Wuthering Heights (2011)

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Roland, du als alter Wiener, was muss man in Wien gesehen oder gemacht haben, wenn man seinen Urlaub da verbringen möchte?

Ich hätte so ne Woche vielleicht aber auch zwei eingeplant, kommt ein bisschen drauf an.

Zuerst muss man eine Wochenkarte für die Wiener Linien kaufen-- die WL ist ganz effizient und bietet die Möglichkeit, die Wiener Tierwelt aus nächster Nähe zu erleben 👀

Abgesehen davon sollt man den ersten Tag mit einem Spaziergang durch 1. Bezirk verbringen. Es gibt eine Reihe von Dingen die man unbedingt geschauen haben muss, und auch gibts eine Reihe von self guided walking tours die man nachschlagen kann. Hab natürlich meine eigene bevorzugte Route... Top Secret auf jeden Fall.

Zu den Empfehlungen:

Cafés. Man muss unbedingt ins Café. No ifs ands or buts. Für was touristisch find ich Schwarzenberg, Landtmann, oder Gerstner einen Besuch wert. Teuer, aber natürlich... fleichzeitig gibts schlimmere Orte um 90 Minuten zu verbringen. Zu Rolands Empfehlungen gehören Eiles, Westend, Ritter, Alt Wien und neuerdings Rüdigerhof. Normalerweise würd ich Hildebrandt an die Spitze einer solchen Liste setzen, aber mein Schatzi ist bis Sommer 2026 geschlossen. Agony and horror!

Museen. Albertina und Belvedere sind bei mir ur beliebt. MMn sind KHM und NHM nur okay. Wenn man noch nie dort war sind die vllt ganz nett, aber die sind nicht meine Lieblingsorte, könnt man sagen. Es könnt sich auch lohnen, einige der vielen Museen in der Hofburg zu besuchen. Als ich vor zwei Jahren das Sisi Museum besucht hab hats mir gut gefallen. Das Haus des Meeres wird dir die rechte Niere wegnehmen, aber ich liebs so sehr, und die Aussicht vom Dach ist atemberaubend. Aber man kann auch kostenlos auf das Dach des Justizpalastes gehen. Man muss durch die Sicherheitskontrolle, aber sag mal einfach dass du ins Café dort gehen willst.

Schmetterlinghaus ist ganz süß. Den Burggarten und den Volksgarten will man sowieso sehen. Sowohl Parlament als auch Rathaus bieten kostenlose Führungen an, für die man sich jedoch vorher anmelden muss. Die Architektur ist erstaunlich. Man sollt sich unbedingt Zeit nehmen um sich die Gebäude anzuschauen. Die verschiedenen Kirchen wie der Stephansdom sind alle wunderschön. Die Leute erwähnen immer das Hundertwasserhaus. Und Schönbrunn ist natürlich immer beeindruckend.

Man sollt auch einige Zeit damit verbringen durch die Bezirke 4-9 zu gehen. Die sind wirklich nicht so groß, und es gibt so viele ausgezeichneten kleinen Geschäften in diesen Bereichen. Ich empfehl wirklich dass man die meiste Zeit damit verbringt, herumzuspazieren und hier und da kleine Entdeckungen zu machen. Spritzer saufen. Käsekrainer fressen. Im Park sitzen und beobachten wie die Welt vorbeizieht. (Apropos saufen haben wir wunderbaren Heurigen wo man Wein trinken kann)

Wien ist keine Touristenstadt, wies Salzburg zu sein scheint. Es gibt natürlich viele Touristen hier, aber dieser Ort ist dafür gemacht dass man hier lebt. Man sollt das alles nicht zu ernst nehmen und langsam angehen. Schließlich ist Wien die einzige Stadt auf der Welt in der es sich zu leben lohnt.

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Sisi & I (2023) dir. Frauke Finsterwalder

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Can't decide whether to watch a Herzog or Ophüls film tonight 😫

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Hey! I've been obsessed with Elisabeth: das Musical for a good while and one of the things I really like about it is the way it comments on Sissi-media. However, Im saying that as someone who really only knows about that media through cultural osmosis and hasnt really seen any of it. And since I'm gonna have a bunch of free time the next few weeks, I thought it would be interesting to watch all* the media about Elisabeth I can get my hands on and review it and just talk about my thoughts on it. I'm also gonna watch all* the Rudolf media I can find as part of this little project because, I might as well

*by 'all media' I mostly mean stuff like movies, series and stageplays, obviously I know there's books but I'm not really in a place where I can focus on reading a bunch of stuff, but I know that the trilogy is based on books, and if I can find free audiobooks online I'll listen to those

I also want to give a quick disclaimer that I'm not a history person, I know very little about all this, so I'm not gonna get too much into the historical accuracy of any of these pieces. I mean, maybe this whole thing will get me to do research into the actual history, I actually have been wanting to do that more since Ive started engaging with the Elisabeth das Musical fandom and seen all these people talk about how much reasearch they do for fanfics and stuff, and its making me feel a little left out ngl, but I struggle with actually doing that for reasons I dont really want to get into. Long story short, if I dont approach historical topics very carefully Im gonna end up with horrible intrusive thoughts that last for days, and I'd like to avoid that but I need to figure out how to do that first.

Anyway, that's pretty much it for now. I'll put everything I want to watch in order under the readmore. I'm pretty sure I got everything (that i can access atleast), but if you feel like Im missing anything please tell me, I want to be thorough and I would really appreciate it ^^

• Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich (1921)

• Elisabeth von Österreich (1931)

• The King Steps Out (1936)

• Mayerling (1936) (with english subtitles)

• L'Aigle à deux Têtes (1948) (with english subtitles)

• Le Secret de Mayerling (1949) (with german subtitles)

• Ludwig II. — Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955)

• Sissi (1955)

• Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (1956)

• Sissi, die junge Kaiserin (1956)

• Mayerling (1957)

• Sissi — Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin (1957)

• Mayerling (1968)

• Elisabeth Kaiserin von Österreich (1972)

• Ludwig (1973) (with german subtitles)

• Viza Privati, Pubbliche Virtú (1976) (with german subtitles)

• Der Kronprinz (1989)

• Sisi und der Kaiserkuß (1991)

• Elisabeth: das Musical (1992 Austrian proshot)

• Elisabeth: Ai to shi no Rondo (1996 Snow Troupe Proshot) (with english subs)

• Elisabeth: das Musical (2004 Hungarian proshot) (with english subs)

• Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (longer original version split into two parts: Kronprinz Rudolf — der Rebell (Part 1) und Kronprinz Rudolf — Mayerling (Part 2), same as 'Kronprinz Rudolf — Sissi's einziger Sohn) (2006)

• Lissi und der wilde Kaiser (2007)

• Sisi (2009)

• Rudolf: Affaire Mayerling (2009)

• Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit (2012)

• Sisi (2021)

• The Empress (2021)

• Sisi & Ich (2023)

Media I am aware of but could not access:

• Leibfiaker Bratfisch/Day Geheimnis von Mayerling/Die Tragödie eines Prinzen (1919/1924-1925)

• Tragödie im Hause Habsburg/Der Prinz der Legende (1924) (<- I was very surprised that I wasnt able to find these two anywhere since theyre old silent films and would think they would be archived somewhere, and I couldve sworn Ive seen gifs or screenshots of Tragödie im Hause Habsburg on tumblr, so idk, if anyone could point me to where I could watch these, I would really appreciate it)

• The Last Half Hour: The Mayerling Story (1951)

• Sissi — Beuteljahre einer Kaiserin (1989)

• all the various Mayerling-shows by the Takarazuka revue

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꧁༺ 𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮!! ༻꧂

🟍"𝑻𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏, 𝑰𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒕, 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒉𝒕…"🟍

My name is Ace, i‘m 16 years old. i‘m a huge fan of Empress Sisi and Elisabeth das Musical.I created this blog to Post my analysis wether it be on sisi or the Musical!☺

I‘m planning to post fanart, ,memes,analysis,and just regular stuff here.

some of my favourite Films are:

•The Sissi trilogy with Romy Schneider

•Sisi und ich •Corsage •Lissi und der Wilde Kaiser

my masterlist :)

`✵•.¸,✵°✵.｡.✰ ⟶My Personal favourite versions of the musical are: ✰.｡.✵°✵,¸.•✵´

𝙿𝚒𝚊 𝙳𝚘𝚞𝚠𝚎𝚜 & 𝚄𝚠𝚎 𝙺𝚛ö𝚐𝚎𝚛

◆ 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟸 ◆ 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟷

𝙼𝚊𝚢𝚊 𝙷𝚊𝚔𝚟𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚝 & 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗

◆ 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾

𝙼𝚊𝚢𝚊 𝙷𝚊𝚔𝚟𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚝 & 𝙼𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝙺𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚛á𝚜

◆ 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟻

𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚔𝚎 𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝙳𝚊𝚖 & 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚂𝚎𝚒𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚝

◆𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟸

That‘s it for now ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

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Director of Photography Thomas W. Kiennast shared some movie vs. behind the scenes impressions from Sisi & Ich (2023).

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Elisabeth das musical Plzeň production review

Date: April 28th 2023

Cast: Michaela Štiková-Gemrotová (Elisabeth), Pavel Režný (Smrt/Death), Martin Holec (Lucheni), Jozef Hruškoci (Franz Joseph), Renáta Podlipská (Archduchess Sophie), Pavel Klimenda (Rudolf), Tadeáš Prokop (little Rudolf), Jan Ježek (Max), Stanislava Topinková-Fořtová (Ludovika/Frau Wolf)

Review and thoughts below the page break:

• We don't start with a hanged Lucheni puppet, the entire time it's actually the actor, who's hanging off of the noose

• And he stays that way for most of the Prolog

• Death lurks in the background for a moment during Alle tanzen mit dem Tod before Lucheni notices him

• And Death cuts Lucheni down from his noose

• During Death's verse, we get to see how Death works in this production's world: he kills on merely touch, which is demonstrated by the dead flying at him with outstretched arms and he just gets rid of them

• Death does give Lucheni a dirty look after "she loved Heinrich Heine"

• Little Sisi comes in in a short skirt and bloomers and during the second verse of Wie Du, her governess comes in and to Sisi's displeasure puts a long skirt onto her

• We also get a glimpse of Helene in Wie Du (she is very blonde in this version) and that she and Sisi at this point have a good relationship

• Everyone in Schön euch alles zu sehen gets a tea cup with saucer and a spoon and they do a collective spoon drop when Ludovika announces Helene is to be empress

• We get a shadow play of Sisi balancing on a tightrope with an umbrella

• After she falls, they carry her out onto a sofa and everyone groups around her, only for her to come out from the wings, so KKOG is done with the context of Sisi's soul already separated from her body and her literally being a touch away from dying

• And she does get really close, but at the last moment, Death pulls away

• As she sings "Ich erkenn dich schwartzer Prinz", Sisi goes towards Death with outstretched arms ready for a hug and Death just gets this mini panic as he backs up

• I don't like KKOG as a song, but the mutual fascination Pavel and Michaela showed here was *chef's kiss*

• During Jedem gibt er das seine, Franz and Sophie are almost shrouded behind the austrian flag colored curtains, separated from everyone around them

• And once Franz rises from his table, he moves strictly in straight lines and 90° angles

• Also, the entire show, Lucheni watches what is happening onstage from the side, sitting huddled up next to one of the set pieces, so the Lucheni actor has very little break time

• And since we're here, Martin Holec as Lucheni is so wonderful. He is a sarcastic asshole, but an extremely sympathetic one with an underlying remorseful side to him. Like, you can't help but laugh and nod along with him

• And he gets some alternate costumes for So wie man plant und denkt: a coat, tophat and fishing rod for verse 1 and an apron for verse 2

• And he hands out tea for everyone during the second verse

• Franz and Sisi see one another before the family meeting and Franz just keeps on looking at her from the moment they meet

• Sophie: "What, her?" Franz, while holding onto Sisi's hand as he was instructed to do and completely visibly in love with her, with the proudest look plastered onto his face: "Yes..."

• Nichts ist schwer has Sisi and Franz act shy at first and they slowly warm up to one another, coming closer to eachother

• Sisi being extremely shy once she is put into her wedding dress

• Death observes the wedding from the side and once Sisi says yes, you can hear the sound of a bird taking flight and Death says yes back to her three times

• Sie passt nicht has Sisi and Franz taking audience with the nobles after the wedding and Sisi is trying to be nice and friendly to them but they progressively just start behaving more rudely and dismissively towards her and she just progressively wilts on spirit until Franz takes her to dance

• Also, Helene just straight up walks by Elisabeth and ignores her when she's supposed to congratulate her

• Lucheni strutting through the dancing ballroom crowd until Death shows up

• Death strutting in flanked by all the death angels was a serve

• Der letzte Tanz had Death dance around with some of the ballroom guests, thus slowly killing them and provoking Sisi with it

• Sisi does defend Franz by hugging him in front of Death

• And Death does have some telepathic powers in this version, so that's how he dances around with Sisi

• Liebe mit Gaffern got the ensemble grouped up and obsessively staring at Sisi from the side

• Sisi has a gorgeously long wig in Eine Keiserin muss glänzen

• Sisi rising on a hydraulic platform during the last part of Ich gehör nur mir

• We get Sisi doubles in the background during Stationen eine Ehe during Lucheni's parts, showing her current life situation

• Franz just straight up leaves on Sisi when she asks him to give her back her child

• When they come to Hungary, Sisi and Franz are followed by a lady in waiting carrying the bundled up little Sophie and Death slowly stalks towards them, killing the child by gently touching her forehead

• So far, with every person Death has taken, he was rather rough with them, either throwing them, strangling them or just roughly pushing them away, even if with one finger, but little Sophie is the first time we see a more gentle side to how he takes lives

• I got literal chills during Pavel Režný's Act 1 Shatten

• As the café guests keep on talking about the rumors about Sisi and gazing into their newspapers, her very visibly sad shadow can be seen passing along the backdrop and Lucheni tries to make some of the people notice her, but they keep on ignoring him

• Lucheni jumping through the café guests and leaping off of the tables when he talks about how Rudolf was born

• The playout for Fröhliche Apokalypse got some super interesing newspaper choreo, which ended with the newspapers being left tossed all over the stage

• The kid playing little Rudolf was super adorable

• Also, he is forced into the blue austrian uniform jacket and the poor little kid says "ouch" as he is forced into it

• Sisi in her room looks like she is trapped in it and only when she stands her ground, she leaves it

• So far, Sisi was the one to draw back once Death starts approaching her/he pushes her around the stage, but once she says no to him here, she intentionally pushes him back for the first time and Death just completely shook

• Milch had the ensamble come in from the sides of the audience

• And there was plenty of very agressive banging with the milk cans onto the stage

• Schönheitspflege has a Sisi double with her back to the audience in a bath up on a pedestal and the maids are brushing her hair and taking care of her

• Once Franz comes in, they draw a changing screen closed in front of her and it kinda looks like a triptych altarpiece

• And then it opens and she is there in her Star dress

• Death appears for the Act 1 finale on ground level and Elisabeth is higher than him

• Also, some of the ensemble angrily come in at the end of Act 1 finale in their Milch costumes, but they stop in admiration when they see Elisabeth

• Lucheni gets a black glittery frockcoat and tophat for Kitsch

• And he tries to sell his kitsch souvenirs to both the hungarian ensamble and the front row

• We don't see Franz and Elisabeth during Éljen, the focus is purely on the happy hungarian populace

• Wenn ich tanzen will has Elisabeth giving one massive fictive middle finger to Death with her teasing him by dancing with whichever man she pleases in front of him, while he can't touch her

• And Death is just so upset/infuriated by not being able to dance with her and he is just left alone on stage completely upset

• Also, paralel scene to Der letzte Tanz!

• Little Rudolf trying to hide underneath his blanket was so precious

• Death is just so fascinated by Rudolf wanting him to stay and he also looks at him kinda weirded out like this is his first time interacting with a child

• Also, Death does almost touch Rudolf's head to take him, but he holds himself back

• The mad woman in the insane asylum scene being carried around on the shoulders of other of the patients

• Elisabeth in this scene is so compassionate and trying to be so patient with everyone

• Wir oder sie had Sophie and the court men huddled around a dimly lit table to discuss

• Nur kein genieren was lit very red and the way they tilted the lighting rig was so interesting

• The ensamble for this scene was very stripy with a lot of colored tulle ruffles

• Also, Stanislava Topinková Fořtová as Frau Wolf? Slayed and ate

• Lucheni doesn't have as much chemistry with Frau Wolf as in the original, but he did get to fool around with some of the ensamble ladies

• Elisabeth falls down when she's attempting to excercise on rings, but she climbs up on a vault to get to them and falls down from there, so pretty big fall

• And they included a lot of coughing from Elisabeth's side

• Death gets a nice cloak and tophat as his doctor disguise! And it suprisingly had little gaping and the way he threw it off was so effortless

• Death and Elisabeth circling around the vault during Maladie

• Elisabeth ends up on the ground and Death goes down onto the ground to her, offering her his hand for her to take

• Elisabeth doesn't throw the necklace at Death, but onto the ground

• Death does come for Sophie in this production, but we don't see him touch her, just her visibly acknowledge him and he follows her offstage

• The passage of time in Rastlose Jahre was shown by little Rudolf first coming out and Elisabeth just breezes past him and then he went offstage and the next time, Rudolf came onstage as an adult

• We get a Fanny Feifalik namedrop from Lucheni!

• At the end of Rastlose Jahre, Lucheni holds up a picture of young Elisabeth next to her, but she snatches the picture from him, agressively stares him down while tearing the picture up and then she stuffs to torn up pieces into Lucheni's mouth

• Rudolf does give himself a dose of morphine on the side of the stage during Rastlose Jahre, so I'm guessing Shatten here is partially a drug induced fever dream

• Other than that, Pavel Klimenda's Rudolf is so goddamn tragically sad, desheveled, sopping wet, traumatized and affection starved, like, you just want to give his Rudolf a hug

• At the end of Rastlose Jahre, there is a tiny moment when Sisi notices Rudolf looking like a complete mess and he cries out to her, but she looks back at him with disgust and leaves him alone, crying

• Shatten had Death come in with a whip and kind of invite Rudolf onto a ride on his carriage (I'm saying kind of because it was very minimalistic in set)

• At one point, Death touches Rudolf with his whip by lifting up his chin and Rudolf snatches the whip from him, prompting a very "what is this weird kid doing now" look from Death

• Death gives Rudolf a gun at the end of Shatten and Rudolf does consider using it, he even puts it to his head while surrounded by the death angels, but he reconsiders and hides the gun

• Strait Vater und Sohn has Rudolf more upset than angry

• Hass was lit very starkly and dimly, so for a lot of the scene, you couldn't make out their facial features

• Death does appear during Hass, not directly involving himself, but banging a drum to the rhythm of the song in the background

• During Wie Du reprise, Elisabeth writes with a quill that looks like one of Death's feathers

• I almost cried during Wenn ich dein Spiegel wär

• Rudolf comes in with some papers, looking kind of ready to discuss his worries with his mother, but as soon as he is faced with her, he falters and lets go of the papers

• The entire time Rudolf begs Elisabeth for help, he is on his knees in front of her

• And she lashes out at him before leaving him alone

• Before Mayerling, Rudolf faces the audience and says "so, you will leave me alone in this", and he starts sobbing and curls up on the ground as the death angels come in and he cries out for his mom to help him

• Mayerling at first has the angels throw Rudolf around before Death starts dancing with him

• At the end, they touch/embrace and Rudolf ends his life

• Rudolf gets surrounded by the death angels, who create his grave with their wings

• Death looks very remorseful after Rudolf dies. This production doesn't really give us feral Todolf like the original and 1st revival, but Tod here is more like a guardian to Rudolf.

• Death remorsefully observes Elisabeth as she comes to lay flowers onto Rudolf's grave

• At the end of Totenklage, both Franz and Death are offering Elisabeth an embrace and Elisabeth starts leaning towards touching Death until he pulls away

• During Totenklage, Lucheni photographs the picture of Elisabeth weeping by Rudolf's grave, that he shows in Kitsch reprise

• And he tears the picture up during the song

• Boote in der Nacht had Elisabeth smoking a cigarette

• They reused the Achilleon set from Wie Du reprise/Spiegel and she had a ton of books lying around the set, which she kept on flipping through as a distraction from Franz

• Am Deck den sinkenden Welt literally had the stage looking like a stormy sea of waves just by using the hydraulic platforms in the stage and Franz was on the only stable part of the stage

• We actually got one of the ensamble ladies set on fire during the scene

• Death screaming at Franz from up on the hanging lighting rig!!

• Death doesn't throw the file at Lucheni, but the angels pass it to him across the stage

• The ensamble in their afterlife costumes stay on scene during the assasination

• Also, Death keeps on watching the scene from the lighting rig

• Once she is stabbed, Elisabeth stumbles offstage for a while and stumbles back in only to be surrounded by the ensamble as she dies

• And suddenly, she appears on the other side of the stage in her white nightgown

• The death angels drag Lucheni down and he tries to triumphantly laugh, but he is clearly conflicted and a little remorseful

• That moment when Elisabeth and Death finally touch and embrace <3

• The Der Schleier fällt kiss here was so full of mutual respect

• After Death kisses her, Elisabeth doesn't fall down dead, but she walks downstage and looks out into the audience as the curtain falls

• Meanwhile, Death through all this looks at her with such a loving and fascinated expression

• So, in this production, Elisabeth and Death stay together in the afterlife

• For the curtain call, everyone of the main cast got one of their character's songs played as they took a bow

• With Lucheni and Death getting to sing a bit of Kitsch and Der letzte Tanz each as they took a bow

• CONCLUSION: Holy shit, everybody in this cast was splendid. I honestly can't even decide who's would be the standout performance of the evening, because everyone was amazing.