She began to laugh and explained that she had made her début as a singer in provincial opera houses, but that an impresarioof touring companies had recognized her disposition towards the poetic theater and had enrolled her in its services.
Next morning he went to see the actress at the little third-rate hotel in which the impresario had quartered her with her comrades while the great actress had put up at the best hotel in the town.
Thus I was brought to think of Sandra again, and of the night when the Brookfield ladies had heard her singing like a spirit in the heart of the moon-dappled pinewood, and impresario Pericles had first prophesied the future prima donna.
An impresario will be discovering you some fine day, and your fortune will be made.
Did I not say that some impresario would discover you and make your fortune?
But once back in his dressing room and while going home and after he got there, Hanlon watched carefully the party the impresario gave to a group of friends in his palatial home.
When George Hanlon appeared in Ino Yandor's office just before midday, the dapper impresario ushered his visitor into an inner room and closed the door.
He had just barely got back to his apartment when the impresario had another visitor .
The impresario took the big, beautiful animal in his arms and exclaimed over and over at its wonderful appearance, its sleek lines, soft fur and intelligent face.
Yandor had asked when Hanlon first spoke of them and showed the impresario what he had made.
This was the fact that the impresario was crazy about animal pets.
Hanlon's partial answers and evident pain finally convinced the impresariothat his star performer was, indeed, too ill to appear.
And before anyone could guess what he was about to do, the raging impresario chopped down with the butt of his flamer, and Ondo fell unconscious to the floor, blood welling from a gash in his forehead.
The impresariohad stood watching with open mouth and bugging eyes during this miracle of training.
Early in 1868," says Laroche, "an Italian opera company visited Moscow for a few weeks, at the head of which was the impresario Merelli.
The impresario bowed frigidly, and said coldly: "I can't do anything.
The impresario looked disgruntled: he looked at Christophe as though he could not believe that he was serious; and he said: "But that's impossible!
The impresario looked cunningly at Sylvain Kohn, and replied: "But she has so much talent!
The impresario prudently stopped the rehearsal just when it seemed to be hopeless.
The impresario beamed and said: "Well, are you satisfied?
And what were Bianca's meditations, when the business visit of the impresario was over, and he and the Marchese left her room together?
The impresariowas in truth a very small man, weighing perhaps seven stone with his boots.
The next morning he was, in truth, quite ill enough to have furnished a very sufficient and unsuspected excuse for not going to meet the impresario at Bianca's house according to appointment.
The Marchese Lamberto would have been at a loss probably if he had been required to state clearly why he felt angry and annoyed with the impresario that morning, and thought him a bore, and wished to be quit of him.
The poor little impresario knew how little possibility there was of finding any such pleasant stimulant in the cold, cheerless, wifeless little quartiere which he and Marta called their home.
She "drew," as the littleimpresario had prophesied she would, to his heart's content.
The ordinary habits of the Marchese, and his functions as a patron of the theatre and amateur impresario were so well known and understood, that it seemed perfectly natural to all Ravenna that he should be very frequently with the prima donna.
Nor were the pretensions put forward by the impresario on this score altogether vain.
After that little hint on the subject, which the impresario had given him, he was specially desirous that anything like an occasion for scandal should be avoided in all that concerned the sojourn of the Signora Lalli in Ravenna.
And it had been settled what terms the impresario should be empowered to offer.
Aunt Detmering after theimpresario had been finally dismissed.
But the impresario renewed his proposal, and the struggle recommenced.
Both gentlemen were then provided by the kind Impresario with single tickets to the most distant spot he could induce them to name.
He had deserved as Carmelita was the first to admit, something better, than a stab in the back from Luigi Rivoli, for the idea had been wholly and solely his, until the great Roman sporting Impresario had taken it up and developed it.
Exactly what it was that persuaded Garcia to embark on the career of impresario in a new land does not appear in the story of his enterprise.
After he had retired the Lagrange troupe came from downtown and completed the season with the help of the stockholders, and Maretzek, the erstwhile impresario and lessee, became the conductor.
What he did not know about managing an opera house he was made conscious of soon after the ambition to be an impresario took hold of him.
It was different with Don Francesco Marty y Torrens, the impresario who invaded Maretzek's territory from Havana; and he remained Maretzek's pet aversion to the end of the chapter.
The season ended with many promises unfulfilled, for which the impresario placed the blame upon the directors, who, he said, had not given him sufficient use of the Academy stage.
It is told of him that, in the early years of his career, he sang so badly out of tune that no impresario would bother with him.
She had just finished her winter's work there when some northern impresario engaged her for a brief season of opera in New York; and it was at the termination of this that Muzio engaged her for our concert tour.
The gondolier slept stretched out in one of the curving ends of his boat and Renovales, sitting beside the black canopy, painted his Venetian water-colors, a new type that his impresario in Rome received with the greatest enthusiasm.
When Renovales handed her the pile of lires which the impresario gave him she said with a little laugh of joy, "Money, money!
They are intensely conceited and abominably selfish, and regard an impresario as their natural prey.
This, of course, snuffed out at once Gye's contract with the Metropolitan Opera Directors, who being now left without an impresario contemplated diverting the grand building to other purposes.
All this involved so much organization and such careful administration, that a mere impresario might, without disgrace, have proved unequal to the work.
As to the success or failure of the venture of the impresariothey are supremely indifferent, but pertinaciously continue to demand the utmost farthing, no matter how badly things may be going.
Mr. Russell Gole; who during my career as impresario has brought and defended for me actions innumerable, and invariably, I believe, with the best results that under the circumstances could have been obtained.
He wrote an opera, and offered it to Merelli, the impresario of "La Scala" at Milan.
The impresario had heard of Verdi, through the fact that the Conservatory had blackballed him.
The Nubian walked in front of the prompter's box and pointed so expressively toward the parterre and the parquet, that the impresario at once knew what he wanted.
Thereupon he drew his arm under that of theimpresario and pointed to the stage.
The negro laughed, so that the impresario could wonder at his white teeth, and shook his head, pointing once more at the tickets.
Salvani, the impresario of the Scala and a friend of Ticellini, had engaged La Luciola, the star of the opera at Naples, for Milan, and the maestro had not been able to find a libretto.
But in regarding Signor Giuseppe as nothing beyond the valet to the impresario the sojourners at the hotel were as greatly in error as in accepting him as the tenor.
In fact, an impresario cannot get along legitimately, my boy, in grand opera or in fact any old kind of opera, without disappointments every now and then.
It is not, let me tell you, an unusual thing to find the druggist of yesterday, or the commercial drummer, or newspaper man of the week previous, become the impresario of an opera troupe or the manager of a playhouse the following week.
Nancy, Bemolle, and Fraeulein read the contract over very carefully, while the impresario drank claret and smoked cigarettes.
When the impresario came that evening Anne-Marie was not to be seen.
At the end of the concerts the impresario got into the carriage with them.
The impresario from Vienna replied, asking for two hundred kronen for travelling expenses.
The impresario carried her flowers and her violin, and waved his hand out of the window to the people when Anne-Marie was too tired to do so.
During the concerts the impresario was everywhere to be seen, with his hands in his pockets and his legs wide apart.
No one since the impresariohad ever dared to intrude upon this sacred starlit hour of their love.
Bemolle had been standing near the window looking out into the darkness while the impresario spoke to Nancy; but with the first step in the direction of the closed door Bemolle darted forward with a growl like that of a angry dog.
Anastasia Robinson, mild and pleasing in manners, with great sweetness of expression and large blue eyes, was engaged to sing by George Frederick Haendel, who at that time was the impresario of the London opera.
No entreaties or arguments on the part of the impresario would induce her to finish the opera, or even to continue her engagement at La Scala.
The operatic tenor is frequently as much of a trial to the impresario as the soprano.
And now came a curious mental revolution: having refused to consider the possibility of singing in opera, and having on that account left her teacher, she shortly afterwards met an impresario named Lorini, for whom she sang.
The impresario hastened to make good his loss by seizing the portmanteau, which, however, proved to be very disappointing.
But the impresario was unwilling to open his pockets.
At the close of each quarter, the impresario Dörmaul appeared on the scene to take invoice in person.
Daniel also had a lot of business to transact with the impresario Dörmaul: the company was to go on the road in March, and many things had to be attended to.
IX In years gone by, Benda had known the theatrical manager and impresario Dörmaul.
Herr von Erfft went with Daniel to the mayor; a half-hour later an official dispatch was on its way to the impresario Dörmaul.
The impresario Dörmaul clapped his hands until the perspiration poured from his face.
The idea of Faust plainly attracted him, and the impresario hastily followed up the advantage.
Nestor Roqueplan was then impresario at the Opera.
I suppose you are not afraid to come here and sing before an impresario and three or four musicians, are you?
The race of prime donne is proverbially a capricious one; the profession of an impresario one of the most trying which can fall to the lot of man.
Happily, almost so soon as she arrived, circumstances compelled the impresario to quit Vienna in the same manner as he had quitted Berlin and Warsaw.
Even so exalted a gentleman and eminent an impresario as Col.
She is very apt to become unreasonably jealous of any other prima donna in the troupe, and thus always keeps the impresario in a state of nervousness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impresario" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
