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Impresario, from the Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 impresa, an enterprise or undertaking,   Origin: mid 18th century, from Italian impresa, ‘undertaking.’ New Oxford American Dictionary
New Oxford American Dictionary

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  Impresa: enterprise; deed; company. Mondadori
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, is the biggest publishing company in Italy....
's Pocket Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 • English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
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. is a traditional term still very much in use in the entertainment industry for a manager
Management

Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
 or producer of concert
Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
s, tours and other events in music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
, theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
  and even rodeo
Rodeo

Rodeo is a sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia....
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Impresario, from the Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 impresa, an enterprise or undertaking,   Origin: mid 18th century, from Italian impresa, ‘undertaking.’ New Oxford American Dictionary
New Oxford American Dictionary

The New Oxford American Dictionary is a single-volume dictionary of North American English compiled by American editors at the Oxford University Press....
.
  Impresa: enterprise; deed; company. Mondadori
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, is the biggest publishing company in Italy....
's Pocket Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 • English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 / English • Italian Dictionary
Bilingual dictionary

A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to Translation Word or phrases from one language to another....
. is a traditional term still very much in use in the entertainment industry for a manager
Management

Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
 or producer of concert
Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
s, tours and other events in music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
, theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
  and even rodeo
Rodeo

Rodeo is a sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia....
. It is sometimes misspelled ‘impressario.’

The term is occasionally applied to others, such as art museum curator
Curator

Curator , means manager, Wiktionary:overseer.Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a culture heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's Collection s and, together with a publications specialist, their associated collections catalogs....
s and conference organisers, who take a lead role in orchestrating events.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a France naval officer, exploration, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water....
 said of himself that he was an impresario of scientists as an explorer and filmmaker who worked with scientists in underwater exploration. Nicholas Wade
Nicholas Wade

Nicholas Wade is a British-born scientific reporter, editor and author who currently writes for the Science Times section of The New York Times....
 described James D. Watson
James D. Watson

James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biology, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer...
 and E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson is an United States biologist, researcher , theorist , naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology....
 in The New York Times as impresarios of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
's works.

Notable impresarios

  • Rudolf Bing
  • Sergei Diaghilev
    Sergei Diaghilev

    Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , also referred to as Serge, was a Russian people art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise....
  • Richard D'Oyly Carte
    Richard D'Oyly Carte

    Richard D'Oyly Carte was an English people talent agent, theatrical impresario and hotelier during the latter half of the Victorian era.Carte started his career in his father's music publishing and musical instrument manufacturing business....
  • Brian Epstein
    Brian Epstein

    Brian Samuel Epstein was a United Kingdom music entrepeneur, and the music manager of The Beatles. Through his family's company, NEMS he also managed several other musical artists such as Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J....
  • Irvin Feld
    Irvin Feld

    Irvin Feld was an impresario and long time owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was a music promoter and has been credited with bringing singer/songwriter Paul Anka to fame in the United States during a promotional tour....
  • David Ferguson
    David Ferguson (impresario)

    David Ferguson is an American promoter of underground music artists. Over his career, he has worked with musical acts such as John Lydon , Iggy Pop, and claims to have worked with the psychedelic drag queen group The Cockettes....
  • Bill Gaither
  • Fortune Gallo
    Fortune Gallo

    Fortune Gallo was an Italian-born opera impresario. Gallo was owner and General Manager of the traveling San Carlo Opera Company from 1913 until its disbandment in the late 1950s....
  • Bill Graham
    Bill Graham (promoter)

    Bill Graham was an United States impresario and rock music concert promoter from the 1960s until his death....
  • John H. Hammond
    John H. Hammond

    John Henry Hammond II was a record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s. In his service as a A&R, Hammond became one of the most influential figures in 20th Century popular music....
  • Ian Hunter
    Ian Hunter (impresario)

    Sir Ian Bruce Hope Hunter was a Great Britain impresario of classical music.Sir Ian Hunter, known as ?Mr. Festival? to many in the arts world, was one of the most important figures in a post-World War II cultural renaissance in the United Kingdom....
  • Sol Hurok
    Sol Hurok

    Sol Hurok was a world famous 20th century United States impresario. Hurok moved to the United States in 1906 and became a naturalized citizen in 1914....
  • Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
  • Lincoln Kirstein
    Lincoln Kirstein

    Lincoln Edward Kirstein was an United States writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and cultural figure in New York City, famous less for his own artistic achievement than for his social influence....
  • Cameron Mackintosh
    Cameron Mackintosh

    Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a United Kingdom theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. He is described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York Times....
  • Robert Newman
    Robert Newman (impresario)

    Robert Newman was the manager of the Queen's Hall who founded the series of The Proms with Henry Wood as Conducting.Newman was born into a wealthy family....
  • Ernesto de Quesada
    Ernesto de Quesada

    Ernesto de Quesada L?pez Chaves was the Cuban-born impresario who founded Conciertos Daniel, the Classical music music management agency now known as Hispania Cl?sica....
  • Aaron Richmond
    Aaron Richmond

    Aaron Richmond was an United States performing arts manager, pianist, impresario, and educator, based in Boston, Massachusetts, who managed the careers of numerous classical musicians and founded Celebrity Series of Boston, a performing arts presenters organization that still operates today....
  • Willoughby Sharp
    Willoughby Sharp

    Willoughby Sharp from throat cancer. , the publisher, and co-founder with writer/filmmaker Liza Bear, of Avalanche magazine , was an internationally known artist, independent curator, gallerist, teacher, author, and telecom activist....
  • Pedro Winter
    Pedro Winter

    Pedro Winter is a French electrohouse DJ, producer, manager and owner of the Ed Banger Records label. Pedro Winter manages Cassius , Cosmo Vitelli, artists on his Ed Banger Records label, and managed Daft Punk from 1996 to 2008....


See also

  • Entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur

    An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of an organization, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome....
  • Promoter (entertainment)
    Promoter (entertainment)

    An entertainment promoter is a person or company in the business of Promotion concerts, festivals, raves, nightclubs or other live events....
  • Theatrical producer
    Theatrical producer

    A theatrical producer is the person ultimately responsible for overseeing all aspects of mounting a Theatre. The independent producer will usually be the originator and finder of the script and starts the whole process....