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859:. According to Bolossy, this production in Portland required “a huge open air theatre with a particularly broad canal connected to a lake. The four hundred foot stage was the largest ever constructed in the Northwest and allowed me to put two hundred performers in action in one scene. I could still hide myself and cruise the show in a gondola to evaluate the performance.” In 1888, Bolossy returned from his trip to Europe and brought two new spectacles to America,
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Chatelet gave me the ability to produce big spectacular numbers. At the Opera I learned the choreography that would help me to plan my lavish musical productions. And it was there that my encounters with the artists proved how exciting and challenging the work of producers and directors could be.
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into the works with plans to be lit electrically for special effects scenes. The spectacle was presented at Niblo's Garden in 1883. There was still use of gas-lighting and they were not the first ones to employ electric lighting (they, themselves, had previously used electric light in their revival
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Olympic, in which the “Kiralfy Troupe,” as they had come to be known, were performing. The reviewers of the production praised both the dancing and the scenery greatly, declaring the latter to be “of exceptional beauty”. This “exceptional beauty” would become a common theme in reviews of the
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The
Kiralfy Brothers had a 13-year long producing partnership. In 1887, Imre and Bolossy Kiralfy had a falling out and the firm disbanded, driving Bolossy and Imre to produce outdoor spectacles. Neither publicly addressed the split, although, Bolossy intimated that his brother was making business
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Bolossy
Kiralfy was 26 when he retired as a performer and began the second phase of his career where he focused on producing and choreographing. He adapted European productions to the United States. The Kiralfy Brothers had a 13-year-long producing partnership. According to Bolossy Kiralfy, “The
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Real musical theatre had to be popular theatre, attracting an audience from all segments of society. It had to embody in logical form all aspects of the theatre – music, lyrics, dance and drama – in a production that was usually greater than the sum of its parts. It had to have a meaningful story
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opened at the
Academy of Music, after a legal challenge due to another New York troupe trying to mount the same Paris production, and it was a major hit. The special effects and exciting story attracted large audiences consistently. It became so popular that the
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opened the site in 1895, and was the first of a series of annual exhibitions there, which drew heavily on the abundance of transport links in the area to attract a mass audience. Highlights of the site included the two-storey
Empress Hall, built for Kiralfy in
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January 22, 1877. It was presented at Niblo's Garden nine times, together with a series of very successful tours and revivals between 1881 and 1892 throughout New York City and the United States. Some of the houses for
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police, during many of which their father was nearly arrested. Jacob Königsbaum and their mother, Anna (Rosa) Weisberger, were highly supportive of their sons' career. They gave up their clothing business to take the brothers on tour through
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in Europe to directing and producing in the United States, the
Kiralfys spent their lives astounding audiences with unseen visual phenomenon and were never afraid to push the boundaries earning them a special place in entertainment history.
465:'s 1874–1875 season, on September 4, 1874. This production was called a “delectability” by the historian George Odell. Its players included actresses Julia Seamen, Lillie McDonald and Katie New, as well as the Kiralfy Sisters as dancers.
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and a curtain for scene changes that was in the shape of a fan. The
Kiralfy production was larger than the Paris production, having a cast of 35 principal actors, a ballet corps, and over 200 ensemble members.
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in May 1869, the Kiralfy Brothers may already have envisioned how to produce their ideas of spectacle on stage. For four years, the family continued to tour as dancers, until eventually being contracted by
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and required no less than 200 performers. In this production, Kiralfy included performers like the James troupe of eccentric games, and Alexandrov Brothers, the famous Russian musical clowns.
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deals behind his back. Upon their split, Bolossy continued to work in fantasy and fable whereas Imre pressed on with progressive era productions filled with science, technology, and machinery.
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toward the end of the 19th century. The brothers paved the way for many of our modern day spectacles. With backgrounds in music and dance, these performers turned producers dazzled
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in quoted as response to the production “Kiralfy out-Kiralfy’s himself” Imre Kiralfy then moved to England where he created even larger spectacles. The twenty-four acre
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whose forty carriages could each accommodate thirty people. Imre Kiralfy became a British citizen in 1901. The renowned producer died on April 27, 1919, at age 74 in
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and company get into on their trip around the world, allow for inserts and interpretation. Due to their success with this work, the brothers bought a property at 39
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on the same day. Odell said it brought “a veritable flood-tide of success”. When one of the many revivals of the Kiralfy Brothers’ production was brought to the
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in April 1879, reviewers praised the ballet and scenery, while essentially ignoring the acting. One reviewer comments that the sets of “Pandemonium,
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to improve certain scenes and adapt them for American audiences. Kiralfy also introduced two new ballets in this production; one of them is called
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with theatrical wonders. The brothers had a long and successful partnership and even continued to have success in their individual careers. From
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with 2,000 performers, a grand number at the time. In 1892, to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus' "founding" of America, he produced
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balloon onstage to be operated by wires. Aside from adding special effects, few changes were made to the Paris production. They added the
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When the electric lightbulb was commercialized around 1880, the Kiralfy brothers took full advantage. They quickly put a production of
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American public not only became educated of our large dance extravaganzas, they demanded them in all musical productions.”
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novel and adapted for the stage by Michael d’Ennery, was another Parisian import. To mount the show in the
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which opened at London first. Kiralfy promised this ballet to be more brilliant and effective than the
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1492:Smith, Cecil A.; Litton, Glenn (1987).
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702:Fallout and separate careers
440:The Deluge, or Paradise Lost
266:Venice, The Bride of the Sea
192:1932 (aged 83–84)
92:the United Kingdom
1629:Barker, Barbara M. (1988).
1557:"Kiralfy, Imre (1845-1919)"
1462:Tenneriello, Susan (2013).
1402:Odell, George C.D. (1970).
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