How To Use Impresario In A Sentence

  • Such showcase events help the festival directors and impresarios to select and bring the best to the international festivals.
  • The idle rich of the day flocked to this elaborate mansion to be entertained by lavish masquerade balls and concerts, organised by a mysterious female impresario called Teresa Cornelys.
  • He remembers what a New York theatre impresario once told him.
  • For three years, he was impresario for Feodor Chaliapin—one of the greatest bassos who ever thrilled the ritzy boxholders at the Metropolitan. How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • That impresario in his palmy days was once faced with a press complaining vociferously that too many of the new American plays he was energetically producing were clinkers.
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  • He could have become a musical impresario. Times, Sunday Times
  • A famous television celebrity and a distinguished theatrical impresario were there on my recommendation and loved it.
  • So the other night we went to the Belasco Theatre, erected in 1910 by the impresario and playwright David Belasco for his own shows.
  • I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.
  • At the top of his agenda is finding an impresario to arrange a tour.
  • Christophe, who was standing by, made no attempt to conceal his impatience, called the impresario, and said: Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
  • Last year, the concert impresario allowed fans to access recordings of live performances from its Reading Festival.
  • Achewood uses a variety of characters to comment on modern life and current events: there's Ray, the helicopter-owning record label impresario; Roast Beef, the depressive, cripplingly neurotic computer geek who happens to be Ray's best friend; Philippe, a five-year old otter who once ran for President, and far too many more to list. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • In effect the children transformed themselves into pop impresarios - masterminding a campaign to propel a band called X-Factor into the charts and on to superstardom.
  • By the 1710s impresario John Rich was once again presenting the semi operas The Island Princess and The Prophetess as well as a full opera, Bonocini's Camilla in English.
  • Ilona Domnich and Betabée Haas relished the wonderfully silly vocal rivalry in The Impresario, the swooning portamenti of one's ‘adagio, adagio!’
  • From the start, the impresario sought the best talent in show business.
  • It was the beginning of a career as a theatre impresario. Times, Sunday Times
  • Until, that is, the unrepentant impresario was confronted by the furious mother of a young actress who combined an endearingly unprotesting stammer with shapely legs–one Marion Davies. Chaplin’s Girl
  • It was so successful that he reinvented himself as a musical impresario in partnership with his brother. Times, Sunday Times
  • He very kindly answered a few of our questions about his time at PS, the stars he's met, his future as a record label impresario, and what breakfast cereal boxes Peter Pinsent wrote his letters on … Undefined
  • There were no Hollywood impresarios or producers looking over our shoulders.
  • Moira Shearer stars as a young ballerina driven to perform at the peak of her abilities by domineering impresario Anton Walbrook much to the consternation of her jealous husband Marius Goring .
  • Fred Davis, the GOP's Hollywood ad impresario, is responsible for some of the most outlandish, paranormal-tinged online videos and commercials. A very scary midterm exam
  • He was a high-tech dandy, financial impresario, and gentleman masher.
  • The boys' hopes for a continental tour are dashed when the French impresario who invited them over abandons them on the dock.
  • He is an impresario because he knows how to exploit a coincidence of finances, politicians, financiers, publicity and taste in order to make a laundress like Nini into a star.
  • Turning theatrical impresario, he brought Hair! Times, Sunday Times
  • Then the theatre impresario asked Smith who should succeed him.
  • Today's dance company director must be not only an artist but an impresario as well.
  • Back in the days of showboats (when people in most nooks and crannies of the nation were familiar with Shakespeare, however crudely presented) one impresario wintered his four-boat fleet here.
  • Amsterdam impresarios and regional orchestras frequently promote the genre.
  • Pairing him in the Albion attack with the beanpole Kanu seems like the work, not of a football manager, but of a music hall impresario.
  • For a growing army of people - the players, the impresarios, the media moguls and, yes, the fans - it is much more important than that.
  • The great impresario was recruiting a salesman. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not charm, exactly, but a kind of cheerily manic persuasiveness, perfect for the new breed of TV impresario.
  • Nonetheless, his great-grandfather was a clown at the Tivoli in Copenhagen, then a ringmaster, then an impresario.
  • Yes, fixed-gear freestyle impresario and streetwear enthusiast Prolly reports that a fixed-gear freestyler in Japan has finally "slain" a backflip: Flipping the Script: Upside Down and Against the Wind
  • Impresario Digital's On The Clock, would not be properly classified as timesheet applications. Macworld
  • A close relative is the English word "emprise" ( "an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise"), which, like "impresario," traces back to the Latin verb Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • He is gradually weaning himself away from his role as a fundraiser and impresario for Cambodian dance. Times, Sunday Times
  • The work of a theatrical impresario rarely has an afterlife. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also in attendance, the one and only Henry Rollins, resplendent in "Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer" t-shirt, a marvelous conversationalist since Mr. Rollins currently hosts a show at KCRW-FM, we talk DJs: Sunset Strip impresario and godhead music man Rodney Bingenheimer, as well as the multitalented Steve "Jonesy" Jones. Gregory Weinkauf: William Shatner Salutes The Captains
  • The original stage show was a hit, but the film appeared risky enough to make the punchiest impresario blanche. Times, Sunday Times
  • All we noticed was its own church, where is buried a theatre impresario. Times, Sunday Times
  • The impresario William Wheatley used lavish sets and costumes imported from Europe and the innovative stage effects included calcine lights and sophisticated machinery.
  • During its long existence Pantomime has witnessed other panto impresarios, such as Augustus Harris, ‘Father of modern Pantomime’ at the Drury Lane Theatre in the 1870's.
  • The artist and impresario has produced 425 prints of his Edinburgh: Old and New Towns, a fascinating illustration of a city full of contrasts yet all carved from the same rock.
  • He is gradually weaning himself away from his role as a fundraiser and impresario for Cambodian dance. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the impresario suspected a repetition of the Nijinsky debacle, however, he could turn vindictive, as happened in 1920 when Massine took up with Vera Savina, one of the company's ballerinas. Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
  • Geffen, the music impresario and a co-founder of DreamWorks SKG, and Eli Broad, a real estate developer, have explored making bids for The Los Angeles Times.
  • Last year, the concert impresario allowed fans to access recordings of live performances from its Reading Festival.
  • They involve a singing frog, a vaudeville show, the impresario who runs it, and the mad scientist who works for him.
  • The company formed in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev to bring Russian dance to the West.
  • Impresarios are for opera, theatre and the circus, where you do not have to confront your rivals head-to-head.
  • As an impresario, Goh organized the Stars of North American Ballet tour to China in 2002.
  • Opera impresario Raymond Gubbay has proved to concert promoters that given the right marketing, concerts and operas can be made as popular as any other evening's entertainment.
  • It was Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold who called John "the Roberto Bolano of L.A. cuisine," referring to the impresario whose mind spins off into a hundred directions at once. Jay Weston: Chef John Sedlar's Innovative Latin Food at Playa
  • Hasdrubal McNulticlar, a Carthaginian circus impresario, apparently leased Hannibal the elephants he used to cross the Alps. Tracing My Roots and Coming Up With Dirt
  • Who but the world's greatest impresario could attract stage sets by Braque, costumes by Chanel and choreography by Massine, all to guide and enhance the faltering steps of a young Russian composer? Diaghilev: Lord of the dance
  • By the way, yesterday streetwear enthusiast and fixed-gear freestyle impresario Prolly quibbled over my use of the word "wheelie," saying that it only applies when you pedal and that the proper term is "manual. Duck and Cover: The Art of Appropriation
  • The impresario lists them before whisking us off to the second half of the property: a bar in the process of being built.
  • Pugilists, criminals, showmen, and oddballs also captured the public fancy: P. T. Barnum was a great early impresario of this new world of celebrity.
  • Brandt was the impresario who had discovered Carly Simon and unleashed the Rolling Stones on America.
  • Ballet was at its most artistically powerful in the hands of the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who was insistent that the form was a gesamtkunstwerk, a total artwork, comprising not dancing merely, but music and design as well.
  • Moira Shearer stars as a young ballerina driven to perform at the peak of her abilities by domineering impresario Anton Walbrook much to the consternation of her jealous husband Marius Goring .
  • Rather, museum directors are impresarios who mount splendid exhibitions which draw thousands of visitors, and travel from museum to museum.
  • After easily defeating a circus strongman for a cash prize, Zishe catches the attention of a German impresario who wants him to come to Berlin.
  • Latest Hall of Famer, Akihiko Honda, influential impresario of Teiken Promotions, presents a world title doubleheader tomorrow (Saturday) at the Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama City, Japan. Fightnews - Boxing News Updated 24/7
  • Beyond the diaspora, it has also found fans among directors and impresarios like Baz Luhrmann and Andrew Lloyd Weber, who have plundered signature elements to revitalise their own work.
  • Amy Chua lives in New Haven, Conn., in an imposing mock-Tudor mansion — complete with gargoyles — that was built in the 1920s for a vaudeville impresario.
  • Among them are interior designers, architects, theatre impresarios, entrepreneurs, ambassadors, a children's author and a renowned sexologist. One Fine Stay in London

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