(n.) The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(2) "Heck, you folks even get Fozzie's jokes, but it was the great impresario Lord Lew Grade who gave us our first big break ... and we're forever grateful to him and to everyone here in England."
(3) Speaking at the launch night of the venue, he criticised what he said was the commercialism of fringe impresarios who expect performers to take all the financial risk.
(4) It was good to see the Italian family of coffee impresario Renato Bialetti housing his ashes in a totally appropriate coffee pot urn last week.
(5) David Cameron , the Tory leader, said today that politicians could learn from X Factor supremo Simon Cowell, but he stopped short of offering the pop impresario a job in any future Conservative government.
(6) · Anthony Howard Wilson, record label boss, broadcaster and impresario, born February 20 1950; died August 10 2007
(7) Take the Everton chairman, Bill Kenwright, for example – about whom a sentence came dangerously close to being written without including the words "theatre impresario".
(8) It's a fairly straightforward tenet of business – and, consequently, impresarioing – that when you make an opening bid for something, you are sure that it represents the very best deal you could possibly achieve and that it will, in almost every circumstance, be rejected.
(9) McLaren, who had the band sign their record contract outside Buckingham Palace, had "showmanship in his blood", according to PR guru Mark Borkowski, who had worked with the impresario since the late 80s.
(10) The impresario and iconoclast Malcolm McLaren , who has died aged 64 from the cancer mesothelioma, was one of the pivotal, yet most divisive influences on the styles and sounds of late 20th-century popular culture.
(11) Motorola executive Regina Dugan, a former director of advanced projects for the US military who has been described as an "impresario of mad science", showed off an electronic "tattoo" and a pill which contains a transmitter whose battery is powered by stomach acid, both of which can be used to send signals that replace passwords for unlocking devices.
(12) "No single theory explains why this is happening," said Martínez, a Barcelona-based impresario whose recent successes include a run of Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(13) It's commanded by 65-year-old Floyd Soileau (pronounced 'Swallow'), an impossibly enthusiastic impresario whose opulent headquarters, located in a converted bank, rather suggest the Cajun equivalent of Atlantic Records' Ahmet Ertegun or Motown's Berry Gordy.
(14) He was a performer, a journalist, an impresario and an entrepreneur.
(15) ITV1's blockbusting talent programme clashes with the launch of the US version of The X Factor later this summer and the hectic transatlantic shuttling that Cowell would have to do to be a judge on both shows would prove too exhausting even for the notoriously hard-working music and TV impresario.
(16) Ed Woodward, United's vice-chairman, is nothing to anyone – hell, he may not even exist – and he is certainly nothing to theatre impresario Bill Kenwright.
(17) The Grade family story is in itself a powerful metaphor of the manner in which popular British entertainment shifted from the stage to small screen – and a reminder of how important the impresarios of popular entertainment were within in the BBC, especially one competing with ITV for eyes on screen.
(18) Blandly dressed, and about as far from the cliche of the flamboyant opera impresario as you can imagine, the new director general of the BBC is thinking about the past, not the future.
(19) At which point, Tarantino steps out of his impresario-narrator role, addresses the audience and says, "For you who're counting, that's number one!
(20) Wilson certainly had a way of revving it up when the man behind Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub – music mogul, broadcaster, impresario and professional Salfordian – earned his crust presenting Granada Reports, staring into the cameras with a level of self-adoration not often witnessed on regional news programmes and clearly loving the fact his opinions went straight into people’s living rooms.
Showman
Definition:
(n.) One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
(2) But when you ask Lewis what exactly the Euston Project is, the editor-in-chief, a supremely confident showman, is irritatingly coy.
(3) Christian is described as “the brainier one, the numbers man”, while Nick is “the showman”.
(4) "Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition" says Palin, ever the showman.
(5) He may be something of a showman, but he's a showman with form.
(6) Michael Hill, 50, showman I was born in Godalming, and have been a market trader and showman all my life.
(7) They represented scholarship, complicated lyricism, musical eclecticism and internationalism (as in Phife’s Caribbean twang) rather than street-corner parochialism; what hip-hop scholar and professor of global studies at New York University Jason King calls “the rise of a European, classically influenced concept of the artist in hip-hop; the rapper as more than a showman but a philosopher, individualist, soul-searcher”.
(8) But while Trump is clearly a showman for whom sexism is part of the shtick, his sexism hasn’t (yet) taken away women’s rights and hurt their lives.
(9) Aubameyang, at least, proved to be a conscientious and popular team player even if he enjoyed extravagant goalscoring celebrations, hairstyles and clothes, as to be expected from a showman who once wore crystal-encrusted boots for a Rhône-Alpes derby.
(10) I am the last person on Earth [Clinton] wants to run against.” But the bully, showman, party crasher and demagogue – as Time’s cover put it – is also the last person many Republicans want to see at the top of the ticket, though arch conservative Cruz comes close.
(11) I’d be mortified if Boris Johnson was made leader of the Tory party, because it will say something profoundly awful about British politics.” “I think he is a showman, and an effective class clown if you like, but the class clown tends to be disruptive, as I think he would be if he had the chance to put his silly views into practice.” The Conservative former chancellor Norman Lamont also came to Johnson’s defence, saying it was a “fact there were fascist theorists who believed very strongly in a united Europe”.
(12) His fellow sports showman Dennis Rodman jumped in as well, declaring last July that Trump had been a “great friend” for many years.
(13) Often cryptic, sometimes boring, Carax nevertheless has a showman's touch, and though his films deal with navel-gazing issues – blocked artists are a recurring motif – it's hard to think of another film-maker whose work features hair-eating leprechauns, accordion blues solos and Kylie Minogue.
(14) On 21 September, Tesla’s chief executive and founder, Elon Musk, used all the tricks in his showman’s book to launch the company’s latest all-electric vehicle , the Model X , at the company’s San Francisco Bay headquarters.
(15) He was something of a showman in the workplace – probably his way of making the job tolerable.
(16) There's something of the old-fashioned showman about Hytner: highbrow and lowbrow isn't a distinction he values (he claims to enjoy Diana Krall as much as Haydn, and admits a secret affection for trashy pop).
(17) "We think Economist Direct presents an exciting new route to market and a fundamental shift in how we think about more casual readers," said Isaac Showman, marketing manager at the Economist.
(18) Such a tour is highly unorthodox for a president-elect but in keeping with Trump’s showman style.
(19) Barack Obama led tributes to the incandescent athlete, activist, humanitarian, poet and showman with a statement that caught the mood of many.
(20) As economic with praise as he was in his playing, Davis admiringly observed that the Minnesotan showman was “a mix of Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Marvin Gaye… and Charlie Chaplin”.