Since the premiere in Vienna in 1992, ELISABETH has delighted audiences all over the world with game series in Belgium, China, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden and Switzerland in a total of seven languages and counts over 11 million internationally visitor. In 1996, with the Japanese premiere, it celebrated the very first premiere of an in-house production of the United Theaters Vienna outside of Austria .The world hit as a major concert highlight at the original location - the international VBW hit production ELISABETH penned by the successful duo Michael Kunze & Sylvester Levay as a really great concert experience in a class of its own in the main courtyard of Schönbrunn Palace! The famous historical backdrop offers a worthy and unique ambience for the concert version of the musical, which tells the dramatic and touching story about the life, work and suffering of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
With top-class soloists and ensemble, accompanied by the Orchestra of the United Stages Vienna in a large cast, the concert version of the most successful German-language musical of all time will be staged again in 2022 at the original location.
