Tokyo Takarazuka Theater

Tokyo Takarazuka Theater(TOKYO) Sep.9-Oct.16 2016: Mitsui-Sumitomo VISA Card Musical
“Elisabeth: Rondo of Love and Death”
Script and lyrics by Michael Kunze
Music by Sylvester Levay
Original production by Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (United Stages Vienna)
Adaptation and direction by Shuichiro Koike
Direction by Naoko Koyanagi On sale from: August 7, 2016, at 10:00 AM(JST) - Price SS Seat : 12,500 / S Seat : 9,500 / A Seat : 5,500 / B Seat : 3,500
Unit: Japanese Yen (tax included)

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Story

“Elisabeth: Rondo of Love and Death”

A hundred plus years since the assassination of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary (Rion Misaki), and still the assassin, Luigi Lucheni (Hikaru Aizuki), is undergoing interrogation at the court in purgatory. Lucheni claims that Elisabeth and Death were a couple in love and that it has her own wish to die. In order to prove this, he awakens Elisabeth’s contemporaries from the mausoleum. Lastly Der Tod (Death) (Manato Asaka), the lord of the underworld, appears and confesses that he loved Elisabeth. Going back in time to 1853, Elisabeth, enjoying the freedom of a princess of Bavaria, falls from her daredevil tightrope walking challenge one day and falls unconscious in critical condition. Elisabeth wanders the underworld, where Der Tod, mesmerized after a single look at Elisabeth’s vibrant eyes, brimming with life, returns her to life as she pleads. He then is compelled to continue chasing her forever. At the same time, the youthful emperor Franz Joseph (Suzuho Makaze) is reigning over a vast country at the Imperial Court in Vienna with the counsel and direction of his mother, Archduchess Sophie (Chitose Junya). While Sophie plans to match Franz with his first cousin Helene, it is Elisabeth, Helene’s younger sister, with whom he falls in love. In 1854, their wedding is held amid voices of amazement and disappointment at the tender age of the new empress. Setting aside the speculation that surrounds them, the two waltz with only happiness reflected in their faces. Der Tod appears, saying to Elisabeth that her last dance will be with him. Der Tod and Elisabeth, where will their rondo of love and death lead…?