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Concerts, music festivals, television series, professional wrestling matches—these are quite the undertakings. Luckily, there’s a word for the impressive individuals responsible for organizing and overseeing such productions: impresario. In the 1700s, English borrowed impresario directly from Italian, whose noun impresa means “undertaking.” (A close relative is the English word emprise, “an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise,” which, like impresario, traces back to the Latin verb prehendere, meaning “to seize.”) At first English speakers used impresario as the Italians did, to refer to opera company managers, though today it is used much more broadly. It should be noted that, despite their apparent similarities, impress and impresario are not related. Impress is a descendant of the Latin verb pressare, a form of the word premere, meaning “to press.”
Examples of impresario in a Sentence
Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
Ted Turner, the media mogul, philanthropist, international sports impresario, rancher and champion sailor, had one of the best runs in human history.
—Drew Kann, AJC.com, 7 May 2026
Megan made her Broadway debut as Harold Zidler — the impresario of the famed Parisian nightclub at the center of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film and its stage musical adaptation — on March 24 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
Multi-Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion said Monday that her final performance as the impresario Zidler in the show at the Al Hirschfield Theatre will be on Friday, May 1.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 May 2026
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“Impresario.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impresario. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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