The history of the Medrano Circus is one of a great family of artists and dates back to 1873;
Piero Casartelli together with his son Umberto and his wife Rosina Gerardi set the foundations of this circus.
Starting as of 1958, the Casartelli family conquered new territories: Spain, Turkey, Bulgaria and Israel.
The year 1972 is the year of development: the Casartelli family made its debut with the name of “Medrano Circus”, a large circus, with a large zoo: an immense gorilla, elephants, horses, zebras, camels, a white rhino and a giraffe.
Since then, the Medrano Circus has been renown for the large number of spectators and the prestigious prizes won due to animal training.
John, if you google Cirque Medrano it will take you to their web site. As I am sure your Italian is a sharp as mine you should have now problem reading it. LOL It is a nice site none the less.
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C'est en francais.
Mary Ann
Si c'est en francais, c'est le site de Cirque Medrano de Raul Gilbert de la France et pas de Circo Medrano de Familie Cassartelli!
In other words, Mary Ann, you've found the site of the French Medrano rather than of the Italian version.
John.
John,
Thank you. You have to stick around and keep these names and families straight. Too bad Lady Blunt or Wentworth could not have shown them how to do a hand colored pedigree, like the Desert Arabians. It would have saveed us Yanks a lot of confusion.
Wade
Jean, quel est le site de Circo Medrano de Familie Cassartelli, s'il vous plait?
Marie-Anne
John,
Nice job, Mate. You got Mary Ann so wound up and squirmmy with that parle vo francy, she acting like a unaltered tigress exhibited with a castrated male.
Wade
Wade, I was merely asking John in French (did you notice, even our names are in French?) for the link to the Italian Medrano site. If I asked you, you would offer to show me how to teach Grace a hind leg leap. LOL French is a very sensuous language, n'est-ce pas?
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
Nice try. I have it on good standing that even an Aborigine speaking Wajarri will make your top lip tremble and sweat.
Wade
Wade, absolutely not true, but I knew a Frenchman who could make me melt when he asked me to "make the laundry". By the way, no one has yet given me the link to the Italian Medrano site. What does a girl have to do around here to get attention?
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
A smart girl wouldn't hang around with morons. I don't know how to do links. I told John Herriott Google in Cirque Medrano Casartelli and it will take you to a site. That's the best I can do. If you want a link, quite slumming and go find somebody who does that kind of deal.
Wade
Wade, I tried that and the first and third entries that came up are your blog! Honest! If I were a smart girl, I would have found it by now and wouldn't have to ask, so I think I'm slumming in the right place. Besides, I like it here.
Mary Ann
I must be one of those "morons" that hang around,because I can't get it to work either....Mary Ann, try http://www.circusfans.net/Links.html#ItaliaCirchi
Although if you click on the Circus Medrano in Italy,all I get is a page with a red curtain? But they do have over 1200 links to circus on this site.
E sono d'accordo con lei cira l'accento,con un uomo si puo' fare anche facendo il bucato sexy....Wade that's your Italian lesson for the day..LOL..
Margaret, thank you for providing the link to all the circus sites. The Medrano link takes you to the same place as the direct link that Wade provided. The red curtain is the right page; be sure that your sound is turned on. If you are patient (not always one of my virtues LOL), a great slide show comes on, and then it asks for Italiano or English. However, if you ask for English, it doesn't work, and gives you Italian anyway. I considered whining about this to Wade and asking for a translator, but I figured I had already pushed it far enough. I was also going to whine that I did not see any feline acts (if there were, I may have missed them, but I watched it several times), but then Wade would have told me that there are other animals besides felines. By the way, what did you say to Wade in Italian? I only understood "sexy", but I think that's English. LOL
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
They don't have a cat act as most shows do not with the exception of a few, such as Togni, and his is hired out to other shows a lot of times. He had an act with whites and tabbys from Marcan when they were new and unusual and not available. Show owned act's are one of the reason for the downfall of the quality of animal acts in the circus, with rare exceptions.
Casartelli uses Martin Lacey Jr. a lot in the winter time when he is finished with Krone, and reports are that Medrano Casartelli is one of the finest shows in Europe at the time when he is used with their fine animal offerings.
Wade
Wade, thank you. Has anyone ever done an act with snow leopards?
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
Alfred Court used one to do a neck carry years ago, and individuals may have been used once or twice since. They are small and unimpressive in the American coliseums, and not to skilled as a performing animal. About as exciting as a hyena in a mixed act. They look beautiful in a nice zoo exhibit, and that's where they are happiest and look the best.
Wade
Addendum to Mary Ann,
I will defer to Richard Reynolds expertize as a cat act historian. This is a quote on the subject of Snow Leopards:
As for the snow leopard, it would be the 4th or 5th one to be seen in an American ring (or stage) per my count. There was Alfred Court's Doutschka (killed beefier opening night in the Garden in 1940), Lucio and Gilda Cristiani's Juno, and a snow leopard in Siegfried and Roy's Las Vegas illusion show. Also I think a couple out of Sarasota - -the Hoffmans - - may have had a snow leopard. They did a sort of big cat educational act as I recall.
An account from a newspaper article dated, April 15, 1940:
Just before rehearsals, an Indian leopard killed the only performing snow leopard in captivity. He also cut up Trainer Alfred Court's face, and another cat got loose and scared the daylights out of a reporter.
Court trains the beasts by wrapping hunks of meat around his chest and waist, so that if they get hungry they won't nibble off him. CASEY, THIS IS JUST CIRCUS PUBLICIST BULL SHIT. IT'S NOT TRUE, SO DON'T TRY IT. IT WON'T WORK FOR TIGERS EITHER!!!!
Wade
Margaret, French and Italian are both Romance languages and therefore similar, so with an online Italian dictionary and some effort I think I understand the general idea.
Wade, I think she said that she agrees with me, that a man with an accent makes doing the laundry sexy. If not exact, I think I'm close.
Mary Ann
Wade, I think your original statement about snow leopards from your own experience is true. Siegfried & Roy's snow leopard Manchu made a very brief appearance and didn't do much.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
To each their own. I know some who consider North Dakotese a "romance" language, and will swear it is hotter then a two dollar pistol.
Wade
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