(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.
Theatre
Definition:
(n.) An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.
(n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.
(n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.
(n.) A sphere or scheme of operation.
(n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(2) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(3) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
(4) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
(5) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(6) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
(7) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(8) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(9) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
(10) It was curious in that it was the only thing I was doing that was not directly related to theatre or film.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
(12) You shouldn't get involved in theatre or film if you don't think they can do your book."
(13) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But is theatre even happening in the right places to begin with?
(14) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(15) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
(16) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(17) In our play 2071 , which recently completed its inaugural run at the Royal Court theatre in London, directed by Katie Mitchell, we explore the science, its implications and the options before us.
(18) This paper describes a search for Gram-negative bacteria in an operating theatre and the steps taken to reduce the level of environmental contamination.A high rate of infection in clean wounds prompted a bacteriological survey.
(19) What's the best thing about making theatre in Britain?
(20) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.