Impresario
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An impresario (from the Italian, meaning, and also cognate of, entrepreneur) is a manager or producer in one of the entertainment industries, usually music or theatre. "Impresario" also refers to the director of an Opera company.
Figuratively, it refers to anyone who flamboyantly takes a leading role in organizing or orchestrating something intended to entertain an audience, such as music festivals, business conferences, and web sites.
This word is often misspelled as impressario.
The Impresario (Der Schauspieldirektor) is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
An example of its use is: "I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists." - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
[edit] Famous Impresarios
- Peter Allen
- Bun B (Big southern rap)
- P.T. Barnum
- Chuck Barris
- Martin Beck (Vaudeville)
- Rudolph Bing (opera)
- Mel Brooks
- The Carpenters, Karen and Richard
- Richard D'Oyly Carte
- Bruno Coquatrix
- Johnny Crawford
- Sergei Diaghilev
- Michael Flatley
- Morris Gest
- Debbie Gibson
- Boris Goldovsky (opera)
- Sid Grauman (film)
- Raymond Gubbay
- Sol Hurok (classical music and Dance)
- Al Jolson
- Quincy Jones
- Fred Karno
- Sid and Marty Krofft
- Jacques Leiser (classical music)
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Futurist)
- Malcolm McLaren (Sex Pistols)
- Vince McMahon (Chairman of the World Wrestling Entertainment company)
- Lorne Michaels (creator of Saturday Night Live)
- Count Olaf (fictional)
- Donny and Marie Osmond
- Aaron Richmond (classical music and Dance)
- Tibor Rudas
- Paul Sacher
- Ian Schrager
- Bruce Springsteen
- Robert Stigwood
- Andrew Lloyd Webber (English writer and composer of musicals)
- Tony Wilson (Factory Records)
- Frank Zappa
- Florenz Ziegfeld (Ziegfeld Follies)
- Murray the K
