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Impresario   /ˌɪmprɪsˈɑriˌoʊ/   Listen
Impresario

noun
(pl. impresarios)
1.
A sponsor who books and stages public entertainments.  Synonyms: promoter, showman.






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"Impresario" Quotes from Famous Books



... for civilians; they were now dining at a long table set for officers from which we had a moment before been turned away; and we were rescued by a mysterious being at the head of the table—a dark, bald, bright-eyed, smiling, sanguine gentleman, who might have been an impresario or a press agent, and continually had the air of saying, as from time to time he actually said: "Ssst! Leave ...
— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl

... after a reign of seven-and-twenty years, resigned it into his hands—until his death in 1847. A portion of the correspondence addressed to Mr. Napier during this period is full of personal interest both to the man of letters and to that more singular being, the Editor, the impresario of men of letters, the ...
— Studies in Literature • John Morley

... Benda had known the theatrical manager and impresario Doermaul. He went to Doermaul now, and took Daniel's new work along with him; for the versatile parvenu, who always had a number of irons in the fire, ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann



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