Impresario

By Deane Barker tags: theater
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This is something like a TV or film producer, but for live performances, like plays, concerts, or operas.

Why I Looked It Up

In an article about the current chess grand master Magnus Carlsen, said this:

[Magnus Carlsen] has also done something that none of his contemporaries or predecessors, not even Garry Kasparov, who held the world title from 1985 to 2000, managed to do: He has leveraged his fame to become one of the chess world’s leading impresarios.

The point being made is that Carlsen now has a lot of business interests involving chess. The article went on to describe all of Carlson’s business interests. There wasn’t a lot of “producing” along the lines of the traditional definition on impresario, but there are lots of business interests around chess. So, he’s making money from a performance sport, which I suppose is sort of related?

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In Everything, All the Time, Everywhere, the book refers to “Robert Scull, a New York taxi-fleet impresario.”

In this context, it doesn’t refer to a theatrical performance, but the job or title or someone who orchestrates something.

Links from this – Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern November 16, 2023
I gave this book every chance, I really did. I didn’t abandon it, but I skipped around a lot. It’s purportedly about postmodernism . Or, perhaps about a history of how we ended up postmodern? I wasn’t sure. Each chapter was basically a history of many things, often pop-culture. I would read a...