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 Billy married Carmen Garcia, whose mother was a [[The Fossett Dynasty|Fossett]]. Together they had three children, Billy, Jr., Vittorio (known as Victor), and Emelia; Carmen and Emelia developed a very good roller-skating act, which has been continued by Victor and his wife, Jenny, as [[The Skating Aratas]]. Billy Arata was a colorful and engaging character, a true circus personality; he died prematurely on April 25, 2004, at age fifty-eight.
-Vittorio continued to work as a solo performer and, in 1979, got a contract in the United States with Cliff Vargas’s original [[Circus Vargas]], the last of the giant American circuses under a big top. Vittorio eventually retired from performing to become Technical Director of the circus. He remained with Circus Vargas after the death of [[Cliff Vargas]] in 1989, and continued under the ownership of [[Roland Kaiser]] and [[Joseph Muscarello]], rising to the position of General Manager. Vittorio married Ingrid Kaiser (the daughter of Roland Kaiser). Their daughter Katya married Nelson Quiroga, of the [[Flying Tabares]], who had become a star flying act at Circus Vargas. When Kaiser and Muscarello retired in 2004, Nelson and Katya Quiroga decided to purchase the circus, which they acquired in 2005.
+Vittorio continued to work as a solo performer and, in 1979, got a contract in the United States with Cliff Vargas’s original [[Circus Vargas]], the last of the giant American circuses under a big top. Vittorio eventually retired from performing to become Technical Director of the circus. He remained with Circus Vargas after the death of [[Cliff Vargas]] in 1989, and continued under the ownership of [[Roland Kaiser]] and [[Joseph Muscarello]], rising to the position of General Manager.
-Today (2024), the youthful Vittorio Arata, who is blessed with, like is late brother, a warm and outgoing personality, is still involved with Circus Vargas&mdash;which has indeed become to him a true family affair.
+Vittorio married Ingrid Kaiser (the daughter of Roland Kaiser), with whom he had two daughters, Diane and Katya. Katya married Nelson Quiroga, of the [[Flying Tabares]], who had become a star flying act at Circus Vargas. When Kaiser and Muscarello retired in 2004, Nelson and Katya Quiroga decided to purchase the circus, which they acquired in 2005.
 ==See Also==

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 Billy married Carmen Garcia, whose mother was a [[The Fossett Dynasty|Fossett]]. Together they had three children, Billy, Jr., Vittorio (known as Victor), and Emelia; Carmen and Emelia developed a very good roller-skating act, which has been continued by Victor and his wife, Jenny, as [[The Skating Aratas]]. Billy Arata was a colorful and engaging character, a true circus personality; he died prematurely on April 25, 2004, at age fifty-eight.
-Vittorio continued to work as a solo performer and, in 1979, got a contract in the United States with Cliff Vargas’s original [[Circus Vargas]], the last of the giant American circuses under a big top. Vittorio eventually retired from performing to become Technical Director of the circus. He remained with Circus Vargas after the death of [[Cliff Vargas]] in 1989, and continued under the ownership of [[Roland Kaiser]] and [[Joseph Muscarello]], rising to the position of General Manager. His daughter, Katya, married Nelson Quiroga, of the [[Flying Tabares]], who had become a star flying act at Circus Vargas. When Kaiser and Muscarello retired in 2004, Nelson and Katya Quiroga decided to purchase the circus, which they acquired in 2005.
+Vittorio continued to work as a solo performer and, in 1979, got a contract in the United States with Cliff Vargas’s original [[Circus Vargas]], the last of the giant American circuses under a big top. Vittorio eventually retired from performing to become Technical Director of the circus. He remained with Circus Vargas after the death of [[Cliff Vargas]] in 1989, and continued under the ownership of [[Roland Kaiser]] and [[Joseph Muscarello]], rising to the position of General Manager. Vittorio married Ingrid Kaiser (the daughter of Roland Kaiser). Their daughter Katya married Nelson Quiroga, of the [[Flying Tabares]], who had become a star flying act at Circus Vargas. When Kaiser and Muscarello retired in 2004, Nelson and Katya Quiroga decided to purchase the circus, which they acquired in 2005.
 Today (2024), the youthful Vittorio Arata, who is blessed with, like is late brother, a warm and outgoing personality, is still involved with Circus Vargas&mdash;which has indeed become to him a true family affair.

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 ===Around The World On A Tight Wire===
-[[File:Les_Aratas_(1966).jpeg|thumb|right|400px|Billy & Vittorio Arata at Cirque Pinder (1966)]]Circo Tea Arata was not prosperous enough to support such a large family, especially after the siblings had reached adulthood. Guido, his wife and their children left the family cocoon and, in the mid-1950s, went on to work with [[Circus Medrano-Swoboda]] in Austria, where Guido presented a perch-pole act with his daughter Anna. It was the final years of the famous Austrian circus (before it went bankrupt and became an Italian circus), and the Aratas returned to their country, where they worked for a time with [[The Gerardi Family|Circo Gerardi]]. Meanwhile, Guido began to put together a low-wire act for his children.
+[[File:Les_Aratas_(1966).jpeg|thumb|left|300px|Billy & Vittorio Arata at Cirque Pinder (1966)]]Circo Tea Arata was not prosperous enough to support such a large family, especially after the siblings had reached adulthood. Guido, his wife and their children left the family cocoon and, in the mid-1950s, went on to work with [[Circus Medrano-Swoboda]] in Austria, where Guido presented a perch-pole act with his daughter Anna. It was the final years of the famous Austrian circus (before it went bankrupt and became an Italian circus), and the Aratas returned to their country, where they worked for a time with [[The Gerardi Family|Circo Gerardi]]. Meanwhile, Guido began to put together a low-wire act for his children.
 From its inception, the new act was very impressive indeed, with such tricks as Anna’s and Billy’s head-to-head crossing, and Vittorio’s one-arm stand and Anna’s and Billy’s head-stands together on the same wire. In 1957, Anna, Vittorio, and Billy debuted their act at one of Europe’s most prestigious circuses, [[Cirkus Schumann]], where Anna and her father also presented their perch-pole act. In the winter of 1958-1959, both acts were featured in another top European circus, [[Bertram Mills Circus]] at Olympia, in London. It was the beginning of a long string of engagements in Europe’s premier circuses and variety theaters.

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 File:Anna_Arata.jpg|Anna Arata (1958)
 File:Anna_and_Billy_Arata.jpg|Anna & Billy Arata (1958)
-File:Billy_and_Vittorio_Arata_(c.1965).png|Billy & Vittorio Arata (c.1965)
+File:Billy_and_Vittorio_Arata.jpg|Billy & Vittorio Arata (c.1965)
 File:The_Aratas_(1962).jpg|Billy & Vittorio Arata (1962)
 File:Les_Aratas_(1966).jpeg|The Aratas at Cirque Pinder (1966)

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 Vittorio continued to work as a solo performer and, in 1979, got a contract in the United States with Cliff Vargas’s original [[Circus Vargas]], the last of the giant American circuses under a big top. Vittorio eventually retired from performing to become Technical Director of the circus. He remained with Circus Vargas after the death of [[Cliff Vargas]] in 1989, and continued under the ownership of [[Roland Kaiser]] and [[Joseph Muscarello]], rising to the position of General Manager. His daughter, Katya, married Nelson Quiroga, of the [[Flying Tabares]], who had become a star flying act at Circus Vargas. When Kaiser and Muscarello retired in 2004, Nelson and Katya Quiroga decided to purchase the circus, which they acquired in 2005.
-Today (2024), the youthful Vittorio Arata, who is blessed with, like is late brother, a warm and outgoing personality, is still the involved with Circus Vargas&mdash;which has indeed become to him a true family affair.
+Today (2024), the youthful Vittorio Arata, who is blessed with, like is late brother, a warm and outgoing personality, is still involved with Circus Vargas&mdash;which has indeed become to him a true family affair.
 ==See Also==

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 File:The_Aratas_(1962).jpg|Billy & Vittorio Arata (1962)
 File:Les_Aratas_(1966).jpeg|The Aratas at Cirque Pinder (1966)
 File:Vittorio_Arata_2014.jpg|Vittorio Arata (2014)
 File:Katya_Quiroga.jpg|Katya Arata-Quiroga (2014)