impresarios
Entertainment business organizers
Impresarios are organizers and managers of public entertainments, especially opera, concerts, or theater productions.
The term suggests someone who takes financial risk to stage performances, combining business sense with artistic vision.
A single impresario; multiple impresarios or impresarii.
The Broadway impresarios gambled everything on the new musical.
Those who create goods
- promotersThose who advance causes
- showmenTheatrical entertainment producers
- managersThose who oversee operations
- directorsThose who lead organizations
Broadway · West End · staging · productions · backers · talent scouts · casting · premiere
Bumps or bigwigs
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- dealmakersThose who negotiate agreements
- investorsThose who commit capital
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
showmanship · ventures · bankrolling · negotiators · contracts · commissions · profit · speculation
Those who direct ensembles
- concert hallsVenues for musical performances
- symphoniesExtended compositions for orchestra
- virtuososSupremely skilled performers
- recitalsFormal solo performances
touring · conservatories · maestros · ensembles · philharmonic · Carnegie Hall · La Scala · divas
Those shaping popular preferences
- curatorsCollection caretakers
- gatekeepersThose controlling entry
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- movementsChanges in position
salons · discoveries · launches · debuts · recognition · reputation · legacy · influence
producers
Those who create goods
- promotersThose who advance causes
- showmenTheatrical entertainment producers
- managersThose who oversee operations
directors · Broadway · West End · staging · productions · backers · talent scouts · casting · premiere · box office
moguls
Bumps or bigwigs
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- dealmakersThose who negotiate agreements
- investorsThose who commit capital
visionaries · showmanship · ventures · bankrolling · negotiators · contracts · commissions · profit · speculation · networking
conductors
Those who direct ensembles
- concert hallsVenues for musical performances
- symphoniesExtended compositions for orchestra
- virtuososSupremely skilled performers
recitals · touring · conservatories · maestros · ensembles · philharmonic · Carnegie Hall · La Scala · divas · tenors
tastemakers
Those shaping popular preferences
- curatorsCollection caretakers
- gatekeepersThose controlling entry
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
movements · salons · discoveries · launches · debuts · recognition · reputation · legacy · influence · trends
- show businessactors, actresses, directors, producers, entertainers
- theater peopleactors, actor, directors, actresses, actress
- cultural gatekeepersgallery owners, film producers, art dealers, media moguls, curators
- art worldartist, painter, painting, paintings, sculpture
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- entertainers in artactors, dancers, musicians, comedians, circus performers
impresariosperformers
Those who entertain audiences
artists · entertainers · actors · musicians · singers
impresariosaudiences
Assembled viewers or listeners
spectators · theatergoers · concertgoers · patrons · ticket buyers