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impresario

[ US /ˌɪmpɹɪˈsɑɹiˌoʊ/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪmpɹɪsˈɑːɹɪˌə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments

How To Use impresario In A Sentence

  • Brandt was the impresario who had discovered Carly Simon and unleashed the Rolling Stones on America.
  • The company formed in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev to bring Russian dance to the West.
  • They involve a singing frog, a vaudeville show, the impresario who runs it, and the mad scientist who works for him.
  • Last year, the concert impresario allowed fans to access recordings of live performances from its Reading Festival.
  • Geffen, the music impresario and a co-founder of DreamWorks SKG, and Eli Broad, a real estate developer, have explored making bids for The Los Angeles Times.
  • If the impresario suspected a repetition of the Nijinsky debacle, however, he could turn vindictive, as happened in 1920 when Massine took up with Vera Savina, one of the company's ballerinas. Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
  • He is gradually weaning himself away from his role as a fundraiser and impresario for Cambodian dance. Times, Sunday Times
  • The artist and impresario has produced 425 prints of his Edinburgh: Old and New Towns, a fascinating illustration of a city full of contrasts yet all carved from the same rock.
  • During its long existence Pantomime has witnessed other panto impresarios, such as Augustus Harris, ‘Father of modern Pantomime’ at the Drury Lane Theatre in the 1870's.
  • Nonetheless, his great-grandfather was a clown at the Tivoli in Copenhagen, then a ringmaster, then an impresario.
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