Impresario
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Impresario (sometimes misspelled "impressario"), is a manager and organizer of concerts, plays, etc. A traditional term from the Italian impresa "an enterprise or undertaking",[1] it is still very much in use in the entertainment industry for a manager or producer of concerts, tours and other events in music, opera, theatre,[2] and even rodeo.[3] In Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, impresario is a slang term for middle-class entrepreneurs.
The term is occasionally applied to others, such as art museum curators[4] and conference organisers,[5] who take a lead role in orchestrating events.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau said of himself that he was an impresario of scientists[6] as an explorer and filmmaker who worked with scientists in underwater exploration. Nicholas Wade described James D. Watson and E. O. Wilson in The New York Times as impresarios of Charles Darwin's works.[7]
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- ^ Impresario: A person who organises and often finances or operas. Origin: mid-18th century, from Italian impresa, "undertaking". New Oxford American Dictionary.
Impresa: enterprise; deed; company. Mondadori's Pocket Italian-English / English-Italian Dictionary. - ^ Craig Thomas (13 July 2001). "Private Triumph.". Asia Week. http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/nations/0,8782,166488,00.html.
- ^ "Broadway Rodeo". TIME magazine. 18 October 1937. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758293,00.html.
- ^ "New Impresario for the Showcase". TIME magazine. 24 November 1967. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844168,00.html.
- ^ Champion of explication through design and design conference impresario Richard Saul Wurman, 2004 AIGA Medalist.
- ^ Jacques-Yves Cousteau on Bartleby.com
- ^ Nicholas Wade (October 25, 2005). "Long-Ago Rivals Are Dual Impresarios of Darwin's Oeuvre". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/science/sciencespecial2/25darw.html.
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