Judge: What were you doing in Geneva, Lucheni?
Lucheni: I wanted to kill the Prince of Orleans. But he didn't come.
Judge: Then why Empress Elisabeth?
Lucheni: Il giornale! I read that she had just arrived in town.
Judge: When was this?
Lucheni: September 10th, 1898. Un giorno bellisimo. A beautiful day.
Enter Elisabeth with the Countess Sztáray. Lucheni runs and stabs her. She falls.
Countess Sztáray: Majesty? Help! A doctor! Oh my God, she's dead! She's dead!
She exits. Enter Death.
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Elisabeth: The Musical
FanfictionIn the mysterious underworld, Italian assassin Luigi Lucheni is forced to relive his murder of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, whose tragic life he narrates. Free-spirited Sisi's life is utterly changed when she marries her cousin, Franz Joseph, and...
