Albano Pereira

Poiares, Portugal, 1839 - Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1903

Actor, circus owner. He arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1883 with an exquisite circus with horses. Four years later he owned Circo Zoológico Universal and built a pavillion in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul. He first had the idea of setting up a stage near the circusring and impressed the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II. Albano married the Spanish trapezist and equestrienne Juanita Pereira with whom he had six children in the circus: Clementina, Luiz, Anita, Carlos, Alcelo and Alcebíades Pereira. He died when he was caught in the line of fire of a gunshot. His youngest son, Alcebíades Pereira, continues to manage and act as a clown in the circus. He formed a very sucessful partnership with the clown, Piolin, which lasted for five years when the circus was set up at São João Avenue in São  Paulo. Alcebíades is the father of Albano Pereira Neto, known as the clown Fuzarca who acted with another clown named Torresmo on television from the 1950s to 1960s. 

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