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- I live in Finland, recently graduated. Elisabeth is my favourite musical and I find all the different productions of it fascinating, though I have my favourites. So far I've been able to see it live in Finland and in Hungary - altogether 19 times (10 times in Finland and 9 in Hungary).
Besides the musical, I am fascinated with the historical Elisabeth as well as Rudolf. My other favourite musicals are Tanz der Vampire, Mozart!, Rómeó és Júlia (the Hungarian production of Presgurvic's Roméo et Juliette), Szentivánéji álom (a Hungarian musical based on A Midsummer Night's Dream), Altar Boyz, etc. I also love operettas.
- Website:
- http://valancystar.livejournal.com
- Favorite Elisabeth production?
- Vienna, Hungarian
- Favorite (or dream) Elisabeth/Tod Pairing?
- Füredi Nikolett/Szabó P. Szilveszter. Also eagerly looking forward to the Nikolett/Homonnay Zsolt pairing as Zsolt will take over the role of Death.
- Favorite scene?
- Too many to choose! Both 1st and 2nd act versions of Die Schatten werden länger; Ich gehör nur mir; Elisabeth mach auf; Wenn ich tanzen will; Mayerling; Der Schleier Fällt
- Favorite character?
- Elisabeth
- How did you become an Elisabeth fan?
- I saw the Finnish production of the musical in Turku. I didn't know much anything about the musical, though I'd heard the name before, I went there expecting something that might be good and came out obsessed.
- Favorite Elisabeth/Tod/Lucheni/Franz Joseph/Rudolf?
- Elisabeth: Füredi Nikolett, Vágó Bernadett
Death: Szabó P. Szilveszter
Lucheni: Serkan Kaya, Földes Tamás
Franz-Joseph: Bereczki Zoltán, Michael Shawn Lewis, Bálint Ádám
Rudolf: Szabó Dávid, Jesper Tydén, Dolhai Attila
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Travels with the Empress Elisabeth, and my Goodreads bookshelf on her.
Posted on July 21, 2008 at 8:56am —
Elisabeth in Budapest, 4th and 6th of January 2008: a review
I saw Elisabeth three times, once on Friday and twice on Sunday. (Yes, I know I’m crazy.) According to the original cast lists, I was supposed to see every actor in the cast at least once. But Operettszínház had a flu wave or something, and there
were several cast changes in the performances I saw. I didn’t see Janza Kata at
all, but
Posted on January 15, 2008 at 10:21am — 6 Comments
I'll see Kata and Szilveszter!
I've already squeed about this in my LiveJournal, but hey, it never hurts to squee in more places. Except that some of you probably get sick of seeing it all over, but oh well.
The cast information for Elisabeth in Hungary in January has come out, and I'm getting what I most wanted! Which means that I'm seeing Szilveszter Szabó as Death twice, once with Kata Janza and once with Nikolett Füredi! And Zoltán Bereczki as Franz-Joseph and Attila Dolhai as Rudolf on both t
… ContinuePosted on December 13, 2007 at 12:15pm — 4 Comments
Fanfic journal created.
I've been posting this in a couple of places already today so I feel I'm repeating myself, but I figured I would post about it now or I might forget. (Also, my brain has fallen asleep and I can't get any work done, so I'm trying to wake it up by doing something.)
I started a fanfic journal, at http://spiegelsaal.livejournal.com . It's for the purpose of posting various fanfics based on my favourite musicals or other things that
… ContinuePosted on December 4, 2007 at 9:10am — 2 Comments
Photos from the Budapest Elisabeth added.
I haven't yet added my Geneva pictures here, mostly because I noticed I didn't yet have as good pictures of the Elisabeth statue as I want, and I also still need to go and see her apartments in the Beau-Rivage Hotel. So I figured I will post all of those at the same time. But I felt like procrastinating from work for a bit and contributing a little to this site, so I've added some photos from the Budapest production of Elisabeth; some from the early 2000s production, some from the newest prod
… ContinuePosted on November 27, 2007 at 9:03am — 8 Comments
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I am glad to see that on this page the fans are really committment about the Elisabeth musical and collect lots of information about the different kind of productions however there aren't the native fans. I' m so happy therefore I found this page and I'm really appreciate that I could be the member of this group. :-)
and you really don't have to worry because of the mail :)
It's situations like this when I wish I live in Europe. :/ XD
Is not so bad which is still Hungarian everything on. I am glad to see a side of the Hungarian production generally sometimes. There I am able I can bring during the next days something in information on my Myspace page. Above all many pictures. This is great.
By the way, I meet the Hungarian death from the appearance splendidly. Better than currently Uwe Kröger here in the German production...
Tomorrow I will go to Berlin and have a look once again elisabeth, i hope to see Pia Douwes.
I am still on that looks for infos about the musical in italien. I hope to get to know there also soon a little bit more...
So far it's all in Hungarian; there's a little text about the musical, the names and pictures of all the cast members and the creative team with links to profile pages for each of them, and the picture galleries of both the previous 2002-2005 production and the 1st and 2nd casts of the current production, as well as the next upcoming performance dates. They're still working on the update of their site so there are still some things missing, like some captions and profile pages, but I guess they'll finish it soon.
Thank you for the information. I have added it.
Do you know by chance whether is there a Hungarian side about the musical?
Many greets
From books available in English I've read Hamann's "Reluctant Empress" and I was fascinated by this book - it's the best biography I've ever read. Hamann showed advantages and defects of Elisabeth's character and I really like it, as many authors tend to idealize her.
I have got also Haslip's book and I'm going to read it in the near future (now I have too much things to do, and I have always one problem with books, especially about Elisabeth - when I start to read I can't stop until I finish ;) ).
About Rudolf I've read Salvendy's "Royal Rebel". Salvendy tried to analyse Rudolf's character and he did it in very interesting way - I was surprised by his belief that Rudolf was in love with Stpehanie and that he was very ill person (and almost hypochondriac...) addicted to drugs. I found also few articles about Rudolf. Morton's "Nervous splendor" is on my bookshelf and still waits... ;)
I want to read Hamann's biography too, but my german is far from perfect I'm afraid that I won't manage to finish it... But I will try and do my best ;)
As you can see I didn't read much - I'm quite new to all this and it took me some time to read publications available in polish. Fortunately some polish authors are interested in Rudolf, probably because the history of XIXth century Austria is strongly connected with history of Poland. And I'm still looking for new books to read, what a pity, that most books about Elisabeth and Rudolf are in German... I guess it's time to start to learn this language really hard ;)
Thanks so much for putting it up.
I find Rudolf's history even more fascinating than Sisi's, because I still don't know what to think of him. Some books (mailny written by Polish people) show him as brave, rebellious and amorous person, other - unhappy, depressed person unable to get along. I think that the truth is somewhere in the middle, but it's still fascinating ;)
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