impresario
Americannoun
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a person who organizes or manages public entertainments, especially operas, ballets, or concerts.
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any manager, director, or the like.
noun
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a producer or sponsor of public entertainments, esp musical or theatrical ones
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the director or manager of an opera, ballet, or other performing company
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of impresario
1740–50; < Italian, equivalent to impres ( a ) impresa + -ario -ary
Explanation
An impresario is a promoter: someone who books, promotes, and organizes shows such as concerts. Impresario comes from an Italian word for a businessperson, and in English it especially refers to someone in the promotion business. In the music business, Bill Graham was a famous impresario who arranged concerts for huge bands such as The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd. An impresario signs a band — or other entertainment — and makes a deal with the venue. Impresarios then arrange advertising and promotion to alert fans and arrange for tickets to be sold. Impresarios make shows happen.
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Example Sentences
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Today, seven restaurants in Mumbai under the Impresario group use the services of dabbawalas in this first-of-its-kind pilot project in food delivery.
From Salon • Aug. 25, 2021
Impresario John Cort, having reopened his burned-out Standard Theatre under a canvas big top, featured a joke that brought down the house: “How’s business?” asked the straight man.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2019
Impresario Thomas Q. Seabrook acquired touring rights for “Tabasco” and asked McIlhenny’s permission to use its trademark.
From Washington Times • Jan. 23, 2018
Impresario Sol Hurok, who had championed opera star Marian Anderson, persuaded her to become an opera singer and landed her a pivotal audition with the City Opera.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2017
The lady found her Impresario, and begged him to free her "from those green eyes."
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
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