Marietta Zanfretta
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Marietta Zanfretta, known as Madame Siegrist, was an Italian tightrope dancer who found success in the United States. One of the greatest female tight-rope dancers in the world, she was known for perf
Marietta Zanfretta c1850
Marietta Zanfretta performing at The Boston Theatre - drawing by Benjamin Champney for Ballou's Pictorial (1858)
Marietta's sister Augustine Zanfretta - Baker Art Gallery c1898
Marietta Zanfretta c 1860's, New York, U.S.A., while performing with the Ravel Family
Hippotheatron
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The Hippotheatron was an entertainment venue in New York built for large-scale circus and equestrian performances although ballets, dramas and pantomimes were also held there. Opened in 1864, it was d
Marietta Zanfretta
…in Boston while in 1863 it was announced that she would walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. She was at Lent's Equescurriculum (1864) and the Hippotheatron in New York (1864). In November 1865 she was at Tony Pastor's Opera House in New York while she spent the Winter of 1865 to 1866 at the National Circus…
The Hippotheatron in New York (1872)
Interior of the Hippotheatron (1865)
Playbill for L. B. Lent's New York Circus (1865)
Playbill for L. B. Lent's New York Circus (1865)