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Kiralfy Bro's’ Enchantment

Description: Image of a central image of a dance performance in a royal court arena surrounded by a collage of seven vignettes showing dramatic and dance scenes with performers wearing historical costumes in medieval town settings, captioned "A monkey bride," "The Corps De Ballet," "Ephemerals," The Plain of Windmills," "The Magic Bush's Disclosure," "The Gondola Fete," and "Brilliantine's Promise"; ornamented with palm fronds with a snake curled around them; the poster advertises the dance spectacle "Enchantment" produced by the Kiralfy Brothers.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1879?
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000320
Creator: Last, Jay T

Kiralfy Bros.’ Enchantment

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Image of three main vignettes showing dance and dramatic scenes with performers including dancers in Egyptian, historical, and burlesque-style costumes, with a windmill, a couple holding hands, and a man pushing another man off of a ledge; with two top center head-and-shoulder portraits of Imre Kiralfy and Bolossy Kiralfy; the poster advertises the dance and musical spectacle "Enchantment" produced by the Kiralfy Brothers; pasted to the verso is an untitled poster fragment with four vignettes entitled "Brilliantine's Promise," "Ephemerals," Obera's Palace," and [Babylon] showing scenes in classical settings; this poster fragment may also advertise "Enchantment" which included a character named "Fairy Brilliantine."

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Kiralfy Bros Sieba and the 7 ravens : grand dramatic spectacle

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Image of a hanging rug with a scene of birds flying over water across a crescent moon in a center panel; borders decorated with leaves, a young woman's face in profile, and a peacock feather; the poster advertises the play "Sieba and the Seven Ravens," produced by Imre Kiralfy and Bolossy Kiralfy, and the top and bottom margin have printed information about performances beginning on January 31, [1886], at the California Theater in San Francisco, California.

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Kiralfy Bros. new brilliant production : around the world in 80 days

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Image of a large group of female performers in a variety of international costumes standing and sitting with vases, banners, curtains, and columns, and a sign reading "Porselin[sic]"; vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of two men, presumably Bolossy Kiralfy and Imre Kiralfy in ovals at top right; the poster advertises the play "Around the World in Eighty Days" based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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The gondola fete

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Image of a grand outdoor stage with choreographed female dancers performing a ballet on a patio with lanterns before gondolas on the water, and large classical European buildings and a bridge in the background; the poster may advertise the dance spectacle "Enchantment" produced by the Kiralfy Bros.

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Kiralfy Bros. grand romantic spectacle : the ratcatcher of Hamelin

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Image of a musician in a festive outfit with a horn around his neck, sitting on a table and raising a wine glass with his arm around a young woman who wears a purse that matches the man's bag, hat and boots; with a date sheet pasted on the lower left of the image for performances beginning on March 8, [1886], at Miner's Theatre in Brooklyn, New York; the poster advertises the German musical play "The Ratcatcher of Hamelin" (also titled "The Ratcatcher, or the Piper of Hamelin") adapted and produced in the United States in the mid 1880s by the Kiralfy Brothers.

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Kiralfy Bros

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Image of a parade of male and female soldiers led by two boys playing musical instruments in a procession through a medieval European town square festooned with floral garlands and thrown flowers past a royal court with a king and queen sitting on their throne on a platform in the background; the performers wear historical costumes including suits of armor, and helmets, including some furry lion or cat helmets, and they carry shields and swords, and banners and flags.

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