Timo Bakker

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.

In December 1912, 10-year-old Kruimeltje, a lively street boy, lives in a Dutch port city without parents or siblings. Abandoned as a baby, he’s raised by Mrs. Koster but must fend for himself. He dreams of meeting his father, a gold prospector who left for America ten years ago. After finding a home with grocer Wilkes, Kruimeltje discovers Wilkes was once friends with his father. Now, he hopes Wilkes can help him find his father and change his life...