Herta Herling Orfei
Austria, Wien, 1934
Ballerina, tamer. Herta is the first generation of artists in her family. She met the Italian tamer Orlando Orfei while performing with doves at Moulin Rouge, in Paris, France. They married and had two twins, Isabella and Gabriela Orfei, both circus artists. In Wien, Herta also performed with white Lipizzaners horses trained by the same traditional Spanish method as The Royal Andalusian School of Equestriean Art, which she brought to Brazil.