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Impresario

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a person who organizes and manages public entertainment, especially musical or theatrical
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Stage 1 of 2
impresa
Italian · 1600s
"an undertaking, an enterprise"
an undertaking, an enterprise, from imprendere (to undertake)
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Stage 2 of 2
impresario
English · 1740s
"a person who organizes and manages public entertainment"
settled as the English word for an organizer of entertainment events
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