promoter

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Entertainers in general
aerialist
artiste
balancing act
bullfighter
clown
comedian
contortionist
double threat
emcee
juggler
majorette
performer
showman
stripper
tightrope walker
torero
triple threat
troubadour
ventriloquist
warm (someone/something) up

impresario | Business English

impresario
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌɪmprəˈsɑːriəʊ/uspluralimpresarios
a person who runs a business arranging different types of public entertainment, such as theatre, musical, and dance events:
a music/theatre impresario

Examples of impresario

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If an impresario did not meet the minimum, he had to lower the ticket prices, and his theater would receive a smaller subsidy.
This graduated by the 1870s to the more sophisticated use of impresarios to publicize the tours of famous clients.
Whatever the contractual position, until the mid-1830s the impresario was, as a rule, the librettist's employer.
There is no contract that states exactly when the soprano and impresario came to an agreement.
Recognising her own indispensability to the new ope'rette-bouffe genre, she demanded enormous amounts of money and patience from her impresarios and directors.
Thirdly, the internal regulation of working conditions, notably through the use of contracts between artists and impresarios, received much attention.
Why, she asks the impresario, could she not just sing those?
From the evidence, therefore, it would seem that the practice of dual negotiations was hardly unusual and that impresarios were as guilty as singers.
The circular concluded by instructing governors to ensure that the local police were satisfied that impresarios possessed sufficient funds before granting permission to open theatres.
The impresario's reply was equally brusque: he demanded the finished text by the next day.
The comparison of televised performances and narratives from these two periods offers not only an engaging story of conservation and change in performer/impresario relations.
What impresario should run the opera company, wherever it might be housed?
Because of this institutional power, the impresario has often become a focus for conflicts over authenticity in the construction of popular music.
And because we lack the promotional apparatus of the 'culture industry' - publishers, agents, galleries, impresarios and producers - we are not going to get much 'arts' coverage either.
Tarr has also been a mentor and an impresario of state constitutional studies.
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