 According to Bolossy, this production in Portland required “a huge open air theatre with a particularly broad canal connected to a lake.The four hundred foot stage was the largest ever constructed in the Northwest and allowed me to put two hundred performers in action in one scene.I could still hide myself and cruise the show in a gondola to evaluate the performance.” 
In 1888, Bolossy returned from his trip to Europe and brought two new spectacles to America, "Mathias Sandorf" and "Antiope".