He would often appear as a character in a sketch ; in the second series, when Horne decides he wants to be a seaside end-of-the-pier-show impresario, one of the acts he auditions is Dentures as ' The Great Omipaloni, the world's fastest illusionist-and also the dampest '; in the third series he was Captain Ahab in the first part of The Admirable Loombucket ; also in the same series, in The Big Top, Luigi Omipaloni, the trapeze artist at Cuckpowder's Mammoth Circus, and Buffalo Sidney Goosecreature, the fearless desperado and adversary of The Palone Ranger ; in the fourth series in Apache Story, he is Rain In The Face-Kenneth Williams, as Billy Two Cheeks, exclaims " He speaks with forked tongue!

With a text translated and adapted by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy, he presented it during the Mozart centenary celebrations in May 1856 as L ' impresario ; it was popular with the public and also greatly enhanced the critical and social standing of the Bouffes-Parisiens.

John Ogilby ( also Ogelby, Oglivie ; November 1600 – 4 September 1676 ) was a Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer.

The humorist and music impresario Gerard Hoffnung was also remembered with the performance in the Last Night of Malcolm Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture, which was commissioned for the first Hoffnung Music Festival.

After Garland's death, he worked as assistant to impresario / producer Roy Radin in putting together old-fashioned vaudeville-type revues associated with The Police Conference of New York, a police fund raising organization also associated with Roy Radin.

Always fond of the higher register of the tenor sax, Zoot also liked to play alto and late in his career added the soprano saxophone to his performances, while recording a series of albums for the Pablo Records label of impresario Norman Granz.

During this period Arden sold The Move's management contract to impresario Peter Walsh, who was at the time also managing The Marmalade.

Robbins Landon also praises his personal qualities: " Salomon was not only a clever and sensitive impresario, he was also generous, scrupulously honest, and very efficient in business matters.

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. ( March 21, 1867-July 22, 1932 ), ( sometimes also called " Flo " Ziegfeld ), was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies ( 1907 – 1931 ), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris.

In need of money, Brome resorted to Christopher Beeston, actor, impresario, and owner of the Cockpit Theatre ( also known as the Phoenix ) as well as the Red Bull.

In 1743 the impresario Jean Monnet paid 12, 000 livres to the Opéra for the right to run the Opéra-Comique, He renovated the theatre and brought together a group of highly talented creative artists, including, besides Favart, who also worked as a stage director, the comedian Préville, the stage designer François Boucher, and the ballet master Dupré and his pupil Jean-Georges Noverre.

Evans also appeared in the fourth season of Daniel Boone starring Fess Parker playing a French impresario " Beaumarchais.

Elysian Fields have also performed in several tribute concerts produced by the impresario Hal Willner, including one of Randy Newman's songs in Los Angeles, where Oren was a musical director, and another for Edgar Allan Poe.

Rimsky-Korsakov also writes that, after the fiasco regarding the Mariinsky Theater's production of Taneyev's Oresteia, Mitrofan Belyayev, the publisher and impresario who now headed the " Mighty Handful ", shared Taneyev's outrage over the incident and volunteered to publish the score himself.

Poelzig was also known for his distinctive 1919 interior redesign of the Berlin Grosses Schauspielhaus for Weimar impresario Max Reinhardt, and for his vast architectural set designs for the 1920 UFA film production of The Golem: How He Came Into the World.

From 1729, under the management of Jonathan Tyers, property developer, impresario, patron of the arts, the gardens grew into an extraordinary business, a cradle of modern painting and architecture, and ... music .... A pioneer of mass entertainment, Tyers had to become also a pioneer of mass catering, of outdoor lighting, of advertising, and of all the logistics involved in running one of the most complex and profitable business ventures of the eighteenth century in Britain.

He also played the role of Karl Denny, the impresario, in the 1963 film Bitter Harvest based on the novel 20, 000 Streets Under the Sky by the author and playwright Patrick Hamilton.

He also is a popular online radio host for The Digital Guy radio show as well as being a music producer, concert impresario and artist manager.

He travelled to America in 1866 as a member of a concert troupe promoted by the Baltimore impresario Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman that also included the Scottish operatic soprano Euphrosyne Parepa.

She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors.

During this time they continued to play various venues in Southern California, including some notable concerts at the Pasadena Convention Center produced by their promoter and impresario, Steve Tortomasi, himself a fixture in the local rock and roll scene.

Among the artists they represented were Paul and Barry Ryan, who introduced Clifford to their stepfather, impresario Harold Davidson who handled the UK affairs of Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland.

Yarwood's career peaked during the 1970s when he was one of a stable of stars under the BBC Light Entertainment impresario Bill Cotton, alongside Bruce Forsyth, Dick Emery, Morecambe and Wise, Val Doonican and The Two Ronnies, all these performers having started their careers on ITV during the preceding decade.

In 1617, the Queen's Men, now directed by impresario Christopher Beeston moved to Beeston's new Cockpit Theatre ; the move prompted a mob of apprentices ( presumably angry that their favorite plays were now to be staged at the more expensive indoor thater ) to burn the Cockpit on Shrove Tuesday 1617.

For many years the Hop remained ahead of the curve in its programming of imported events, and Peter Smith liked to joke that he was the only impresario who could fail to sell out a 900-seat hall for either Luciano Pavarotti or Bruce Springsteen — both of whom were engaged just prior to their super-stardom.

The Dunham company's international tours ended in Vienna in 1960, when it was stranded without money because of bad management by their impresario.

Under the high-profile management of impresario and concert promoter Bill Graham, Montrose reached the peak of their commercial popularity during the Warner Bros Presents and Jump On It era from 1975 to 1977, which found the band adhering to a grueling tour schedule across America and Canada, performing predominantly in large arena and stadium venues sharing the bill with major artists that included The Rolling Stones, Kiss, Peter Frampton, Yes, Rush, The Eagles, Journey, and Aerosmith, as well as headlining their own shows in mid-size arenas.

During absences of the RSC, the theatre hosted the annual World Theatre Seasons, foreign plays in their original productions, invited to London by the theatre impresario Peter Daubeny, annually from 1964 to 1973 and finally in 1975.

The newly-renamed trio soon attracted the attention of folk music impresario Irving Steinbloom ( 1920 – 2003 ), who became their manager and signed them to Folktown Records – as Palter once put it, " THE label to be on.

The event was so successful that the Interior Secretary plans to serve as impresario for similar ones from time to time, hoping thereby to add to the cultural enrichment of the Administration.

Emma Abbott ( December 9, 1850 – January 5, 1891 ) was an American operatic soprano and impresario known for her pure, clear voice of great flexibility and volume.

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

His grandfather was German-born Jewish theater impresario Oscar Hammerstein I, and his mother was the daughter of Scottish and English parents.

Richard Hell's more androgynous, ragamuffin look — and reputed invention of the safety-pin aesthetic — was a major influence on Sex Pistols impresario Malcolm McLaren and, in turn, British punk style.

The Thanhouser film studio was founded in New Rochelle, New York in 1909 by American theatrical impresario Edwin Thanhouser.

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

The first important deal for the company was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwood's 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, from theatrical impresario David Belasco.

Richard D ' Oyly Carte ( 3 May 1844 – 3 April 1901 ) was an English talent agent, theatrical impresario, composer and hotelier during the latter half of the Victorian era.

Betty Marsden played Dame Celia Molestrangler, and Hugh Paddick was ' ageing juvenile ' Binkie Huckaback ( named after theatrical impresario Binkie Beaumont ).

Lawrence Welk ( March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992 ) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, who appears briefly as the impresario of a strip club, was a friend of the producer.

Jacques Offenbach ( 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880 ) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period.

Founded by Dominican flautist and band-leader Johnny Pacheco and impresario Jerry Masucci, Fania was launched with Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe's El Malo in 1967.

The impresario would punish such outbursts by apologizing to the audience, pointing out that irritability was a consequence of fasting.

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren ( 22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010 ) was an English performer and impresario.

McLaren took the project to New York City in 1986, and was for a time funded through NYC-based nightlife impresario and producer Robert Boykin.

Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García was born in Paris to the Garcías, a Spanish opera family led by her father, tenor, singing teacher, composer and impresario Manuel García.