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Elisabeth
Elisabeth Elisabeth carries the full scriptural weight of Elisheba — God's oath and abundance — in a spelling that signals European cultural formation, whether Germanic, Scandinavian, or French. The two famous Elisabeths of the nineteenth century — the Hungarian saint of radical charitable giving and the Austrian Empress of beautiful, tragic restlessness — between them give the name opposing but equally compelling dimensions: the saint who gives everything and the empress who cannot give herself to anything. It suits protagonists of exceptional quality whose nature is too large for the world that contains them.
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Elisabeth
Elisabeth — Michael Kunze / Sylvester Levay
The Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose restless resistance to the Habsburg court's conventions is the subject of the celebrated Austrian musical, a portrait of a woman who preferred death to constraint.
Elisabeth Schumann
Tannhäuser — Richard Wagner
The pure, devoted princess whose love for Tannhäuser and intercessory prayer provide the possibility of his redemption in Wagner's opera of sacred and profane love.
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