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impresario
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1746, from Italian impresario "operatic manager," literally "undertaker (of a business)," from impresa "undertaking," fem. of impreso, past participle of imprendere "undertake," from Vulgar Latin imprendere, from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, onto" (see in- (2)) + prehendere "to grasp" (see prehensile).
Wiktionary
n. A manager or producer in the entertainment industry, especially music or theatre.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An impresario (from the Italian impresa, 'an enterprise or undertaking') is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays or operas, performing a role similar to that of an artist manager or a film or television producer. The term originated in the social and economic world of Italian opera, in which from the mid-18th century to the 1830s, the impresario was the key figure in the organization of a lyric season. The owners of the theatre, usually noble amateurs, charged the impresario with hiring a composer (until the 1850s operas were expected to be new) and the orchestra, singers, costumes and sets, all while assuming considerable financial risk. In 1786 Mozart satirized the stress and emotional mayhem in a single-act farce Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario). Antonio Vivaldi was unusual in acting as both impresario and composer; in 1714 he managed seasons at Teatro San Angelo in Venice, where his opera Orlando finto pazzo was followed by numerous others.
Alessandro Lanari (1787–1852), who began as the owner of a shop that produced costumes, eliminated the middleman in a series of successful seasons he produced for the Teatro La Pergola, in Florence, which presented the premieres of the first version of Verdi's Macbeth, two of Bellini's operas and five of Donizetti's, including Lucia di Lammermoor. Domenico Barbaia (1778–1841) began as a café waiter and made a fortune at La Scala, in Milan, where he was also in charge of the gambling operation and introduced roulette.
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.