Overview: During the weekend of Saturday 15 and Sunday, November 16th, 2014 was the first edition of this unique event Musicals in Concert at the Ziggo Dome Amsterdam instead. Never before were the largest Dutch musical stars including Chantal Janzen, Simone Kleinsma, Freek Bartels, Stanley Burleson, René van Kooten and Carolina Dijkhuizen together on a concert stage. They sang at this concert the most beloved songs from the rich musical repertoire and invited to sing along from the audience. Dutch also own West End star Willemijn Verkaik (Wicked, London) returned especially for this concert back to Amsterdam.
Overview: Recording of a Dutch performance of the musical Elisabeth. It portrays the life and death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as "Sisi", the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I, from her engagement and marriage in 1854 to her murder in 1898 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni; it focuses on her growing obsession with death, as her marriage and the empire crumble around her just before the turn of the 20th century.
