An impresario is someone who is involved in producing entertainment, most commonly used as a term related to the director of an Opera company.
Diaghilev
Richard D'Oyly Carte who built the Savoy Theatre to produce the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The first so produced being 'Patience'. The D'Oyly Carte family continued to hold the copyright of the G&S operas until it expired.
The director of the orchestra is called the conductor. There is also a staging director who is in charge of the physical part of the opera, rather than the music. There can be a stage manager who will keep track of who's supposed to be on stage and will give Qs. The main director for the actual performance would be the conductor, though.
Ten years after the mysterious disappearance of The Phantom from the Paris Opera House, Christine Daaé accepts an offer to come to America and perform at New York's fabulous new playground of the world - Coney Island. Arriving in New York with her husband Raoul and their son Gustave, Christine soon discovers the identity of the anonymous impresario who has lured her from France to sing.
Henslowe's Diary, an account-book belonging to the impresario Philip Henslowe, shows that the companies playing at the Rose and Newington Butts Theatres (which Henslowe owned) brought out a new play every two weeks. It is not clear whether they were only working on one new play at a time, but if they were that would mean that they had two weeks to learn a new script, while at the same time giving performances practically every day of ten plays or so that they had in repertoire. An actor in Shakespeare's time may have had fifty plays or more performance ready at any given time.
Impresario. has written: 'The market square'
John Cort - impresario - was born in 1861.
Charles Morton - impresario - was born in 1819.
Charles Morton - impresario - died in 1904.
Ian Hunter - impresario - was born in 1919.
Ian Hunter - impresario - died in 2003.
Richard Condon - impresario - died in 1991.
Richard Condon - impresario - was born in 1937.
Robert Paterson - impresario - was born in 1940.
Robert Paterson - impresario - died in 1991.
John Cort - impresario - died in 1929.
S. Hurok was a famous impresario of the twentieth century.