Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process, Sills has shed her image as America's sweetheart prima donna for a new persona as an impresario. "I have learned a lot," she says with pride. "I am taking a course in lighting, I can look at a flat design and know if it will come into 3-D. My singers know they will be well lit and not forced to wear unbecoming costumes. The backstage crew calls me boss. Beverly Sills superstar is gone...
DIED. Irvin Feld, 66, hard-driving impresario who in 1956 rescued the foundering Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from ruin and eleven years later bought it outright and thereafter ran it extravaganzily and profitably; of a brain hemorrhage; in Venice...
...author herself might say, this book is not a grand'chose. Diana Vreeland has lived near the center of the fashion world all her life, as the wife of an international banker, as editor of Vogue, and currently as impresario of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute...
...Francisco's opera and ballet companies and the city's Museum of Modern Art. His private art collection includes works by the modernists Robert Motherwell and Hans Hofmann. Rock likes to entertain at dinner parties, which attract an eclectic mixture of guests such as Opera Impresario Kurt Herbert Adler and Rolling Stone magazine Editor and Publisher Jann Wenner. Rock suffered from polio as a child, but shows no ill effects from the disease. He exercises for an hour every morning when at home and spends much of each winter skiing in Aspen, Colo., where he conducts business from...
...well have a monumental failure." Lately Sir Peter, 53, has been getting his melancholy wish. Founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, boss for a decade of the huge National Theater, a noted director of plays, operas and films, Hall has long been the most successful and controversial impresario on the bustling British arts scene. Now he is the bestselling author of a volume of tittle-tattle diaries, the director of a lugubrious new musical about Actress Jean Seberg, and the star of a brouhaha that boasts enough celebrities, sex, money, backstabbing and even cultural significance to fill every London tabloid...