2001 Premiere cast Essen

Elisabeth, Empress of Austria – Pia Douwes

Luigi Lucheni, Elisabeth's murderer –  Carsten Lepper

Der Tod, Elisabeth's lover – Uwe Kröger

Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth's husband – Michael Shawn Lewis

Archduchess Sophie, Elisabeth's mother-in-law  – Gabrielle Ramm

Archduke Rudolf, Elisabeth's son  – Jesper Tydén (alt. Der Tod)

Rudolf as a child – David Nawrocnik

Duke Max in Bavaria, Elisabeth's father – Claus Dam

Duchess Ludovika, Elisabeth's mother – Annika Bruhns

Helene von Wittelsbach, Elisabeth's sister  – Rhoda Kosten

Count Grünne, Imperial adjutant – Frank Logemann

Archbishop Rauscher – Boris Pfeiffer

Prince Schwarzenberg, minister – Detlef Leistenschneider (u/s Lucheni)

Baron Hübner, Viennese capitalist – Marcel Meyer

Baron Kempen, Chief of Police – Brady Swenson (u/s Der Tod)

Countess Sztáray –  Ruth Kraus

Countess Esterházy-Liechtenstein – Juliana Albrecht

Maximilian of Mexico –

Mary Vetsera –

A young Hungarian nobleman – probably Sven Olaf Denkinger (credit as Batthyany) (u/s Rudolf)

Fanny Feifalik, Elisabeth's hairdresser – Lillian Marti

A lady-in-waiting (Hofdame) –

A governess (Gouvernante) –  Sabine Maria Reiß

A professor – probably Lucius Wolter (credited as Karolyi) (u/s Rudolf)

Fräulein Windisch, a madwoman – Petra Madita Kübitz

Frau Wolf  – Annika Bruhns

Dancers (Todesengel): Sabine Merkel, Sara Rymer, Jo Shanks, Markus Giess, Jimmy Laremore, Chi-Liang Shih

Swings: Alison Hughes, Noud Hell, Tina Podstawa, Natahlie Kleeberger, Anja Mattner, Christian Tschinder, Sascha Oskar Weis