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Translation (see last line):
Dallot: A Spectacular Family, a Family Spectacle
Born in France, the three Dallot siblings – Carlos, José, and Júlia – were celebrated circus artists at the end of the 19th century who debuted in Lisbon as part of the famous Madrid Circus company. After several tours in Spain and also in England, inspired by the "boulevard" theaters that were very successful throughout Europe, they ended up settling in Portugal, creating the traveling popular theater company "Irmãos Dallot" (Dallot Brothers) that toured the country from north to south and inspired the creation of many other traveling theater companies.
But nobody surpassed them! Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão make references to them in their "Farpas," and, as Eduardo Noronha wrote in "Estroinas e Estroinices" (1922), the Dallot theatre was "the most popular, the most applauded, the one that achieved the greatest longevity."
Of French origin, the family maintained a theatre from the 1880s onwards, showcasing the gymnastic and acrobatic talents of its artists at fairs and squares, as well as clown acts, mechanical theatre, and short comedies that enlivened the lives of the Portuguese from Minho to Algarve and even the Azores. Its success was enormous and prolonged the Dallot family's theatrical activity until the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1879, a caricature by Bordalo Pinheiro, reflecting the political climate, capitalized on the success of the operetta "O Processo Rasga" (The Tearing Process), staged by the Dallot Brothers as a parody of a Spanish zarzuela, "O Processo do Cancan" (The Cancan Process). At the top of the stairs, he depicted Carlos Dallot, well-known in Lisbon for his French-accented announcement, "It's about to begin, gentlemen, it's about to begin...", and to the right, observing the approaching audience from the gallery, his brother José.
Having definitively settled in Portugal, the Dallots became familially linked to other dynasties of the same profession – from which emerged such famous names as Palmira Bastos, Eunice Muñoz, and Camilo de Oliveira – and, in an era when the circus or traveling theatre no longer constituted the main popular attraction, the Dallots spawned two modern stars of the most watched spectacle in the world today: football.
In 2025, an ironic twist of fate brought together two cousins, both great-great-grandsons of Carlos Dallot – Ruben Amorim, the coach, and Diogo Dallot, the player – at Manchester United, the biggest football club in the world, which today projects them into a gigantic spectacle on a global level.
Translation (see last line):
Dallot: A Spectacular Family, a Family Spectacle
Born in France, the three Dallot siblings – Carlos, José, and Júlia – were celebrated circus artists at the end of the 19th century who debuted in Lisbon as part of the famous Madrid Circus company. After several tours in Spain and also in England, inspired by the "boulevard" theaters that were very successful throughout Europe, they ended up settling in Portugal, creating the traveling popular theater company "Irmãos Dallot" (Dallot Brothers) that toured the country from north to south and inspired the creation of many other traveling theater companies.
But nobody surpassed them! Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão make references to them in their "Farpas," and, as Eduardo Noronha wrote in "Estroinas e Estroinices" (1922), the Dallot theatre was "the most popular, the most applauded, the one that achieved the greatest longevity."
Of French origin, the family maintained a theatre from the 1880s onwards, showcasing the gymnastic and acrobatic talents of its artists at fairs and squares, as well as clown acts, mechanical theatre, and short comedies that enlivened the lives of the Portuguese from Minho to Algarve and even the Azores. Its success was enormous and prolonged the Dallot family's theatrical activity until the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1879, a caricature by Bordalo Pinheiro, reflecting the political climate, capitalized on the success of the operetta "O Processo Rasga" (The Tearing Process), staged by the Dallot Brothers as a parody of a Spanish zarzuela, "O Processo do Cancan" (The Cancan Process). At the top of the stairs, he depicted Carlos Dallot, well-known in Lisbon for his French-accented announcement, "It's about to begin, gentlemen, it's about to begin...", and to the right, observing the approaching audience from the gallery, his brother José.
Having definitively settled in Portugal, the Dallots became familially linked to other dynasties of the same profession – from which emerged such famous names as Palmira Bastos, Eunice Muñoz, and Camilo de Oliveira – and, in an era when the circus or traveling theatre no longer constituted the main popular attraction, the Dallots spawned two modern stars of the most watched spectacle in the world today: football.
In 2025, an ironic twist of fate brought together two cousins, both great-great-grandsons of Carlos Dallot – Ruben Amorim, the coach, and Diogo Dallot, the player – at Manchester United, the biggest football club in the world, which today projects them into a gigantic spectacle on a global level.
