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Promoter of public entertainments
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impresario
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impresario \Im`pre*sa"ri*o\, n.; pl. Impresarios . [It., from impresa enterprise.] The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company. Hence, broadly: Any manager who organizes performances of a group.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was then a figure in Boise society, scion of Thomas Oglethorpe Tucker, the lumber and tinned-trout impresario . ▪ It was a Franco-Italo production, put together by the great impresario de Bailhac in 1936. ▪ Salieri's mistress ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A manager or producer in the entertainment industry, especially music or theatre.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments [syn: showman , promoter ]
Usage examples of impresario.
Although the photographic impresario with the failing eyesight had kept to his agreement and permitted a credit linein the smallest typeto the operators who had made the stunning pictures, the photos were presented as a Brady Gallery special event.
There was no pollution, no war, no deafening street music, no drugs, no rapacious physicians and lawyers and impresarios, no muggers, no in-laws, no bills or debts, no automobiles, no newspaper propaganda, no television lies, no politicians, no crowds, no timetables.
He told Sir Rodwell the story of how they had met in the salle a manger of the hotel the impresario of a Concert in the town, who had in his hand the doctor's certificate of the incapacity of the chief cantatrice to appear, and waved it, within a step of suicide.
I was a star Corn God inna Sacred Hanging Ceremony to fructify the Corn devised by this impresario who specializes in these far out bit parts which fit me like a condom, he says the cutest things.
Ted Casey and the Owl trade seats, up and down, on and off, the musical chair routine of a promoter, an impresario who's brought his friends to wine with the upper classes, the culture vultures and the Mafiosi.
For what it may be worth to modern impresarios: I can testify from personal experience that great crowds can still be gathered by melodrama, provided that the female in the piece speaks loudly and clearly.
Owen told stories about temperamental Hungarian artists, rich impresarios and their fifteen-year-old mistresses, and about his childhood friend Solly Muggenheim who made a jockstrap out of a squirrel's tail and died in the arms of his "loverbird", Connie adding that the "loverbird" told her Solly kissed like a vacuum cleaner.
It was her usual greeting to everyone from impresarios to back-row chorus singers, and when applied to me still utterly lacked any maternal quality.
Madame Danglars asked me for letters of recommendation for the impresari.
The proprietor of a preparatory school, if he is a man of wealth, need not be able to teach, any more than an impresario need be able to write plays.
So he took leave of the impresario, his partner throughout an unparalleled career, and found a position in a large circus.