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1. Who composed the music of "Elisabeth"?
2. Where and when was the world premiere of "Elisabeth"?
3. Who of the following ladies played the role of the Empress at the premiere?
4. Now let's start on the show. Where does the prologue take place?
5. Lucheni agrees to tell the Judge the whole story, through which he leads as a narrator. Act one starts in 1853. Duke Max in Bavaria, Sisi's father, is leaving the castle, and Elisabeth wants him to take her with him, for she hates living in a cage, not being allowed to do what she wants. How old is she then?
6. In August 1853, Ludovika (Sisi's mother) and her daughters Helene and Elisabeth travel to Bad Ischl to meet the emperor Franz-Joseph and his mother Sophie, Ludovika's sister. Why?
7. At the wedding reception, Death is also among the guests and sings his famous song. What is it called?
8. A few days after the wedding, Sophie starts bossing Sisi about, and the young Empress realizes that her husband won't and can't help her. She expresses her feelings in the most famous song of the show, called...
9. In the following years Sisi feels let down and misunderstood. Death offers her himself as a better choice, but she refuses, and Death takes her first child instead. When she has a son, Sisi decides not to leave him to Sophie. She gives Franz-Joseph the choice between accepting her demand, thus ignoring his mother's wishes, and refusing it - thus risking to lose her. What's the name of the son who caused the issue?
10. In the beginning of act two, Franz-Joseph and Elisabeth become King and Queen of Hungary (June 8, 1867). Lucheni tries to sell some souvenirs while singing which song?
11. During the celebration that follows the coronation, Elisabeth meets Death again, but she tells him to leave. It seems like she has finally broken his spell over her. The song they sing in that scene has been added to the show in 2001. Do you know what it's called?
12. Sophie tries to break the power Sisi has over Franz-Joseph by sending another woman, a prostitute, to him. The Duke Grünne chooses the girl at Mrs. Wolf's bordello, watched by Lucheni. What is the name of the girl he chooses?
13. In 1888, Elisabeth's now 30-year-old son gets involved in a Hungarian conspiracy. While waiting for the conspirators, he encounters Death, his friend from childhood days, who persuades him to cast aside his doubts. Their duet is one of the most powerful musical songs I know, and it's called...
14. 1895. Franz-Joseph and Elisabeth realize that their marriage has failed and that they are too different. Franz-Joseph remains in Vienna and Sisi travels around, leading an unstable life, always longing for Death, whom she now loves more than ever. On September 10, 1898, her wish finally comes true: Lucheni murders the Empress with a file (which has been given to him by Death), more or less by chance, for he actually wanted to kill someone else. Whom?
15. The last words in the musical are "Ich Gehör Nur Mir".
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