concept
Impresario (антрепренер)
impresario
also: антрепренер, antreprener
The manager/lessee who financed and ran a provincial or touring Russian theater troupe, hiring actors and bearing the financial risk -- a stock comic figure in Chekhov's early theater sketches, typically portrayed as miserly, anxious, and morally slippery.
Reading notes
- The Impresario Under the Sofa §7 impresario
Russian ‘антрепренер’: the manager/lessee who financed and ran a provincial or touring theater troupe, hiring actors and taking the financial risk and reward -- a stock comic figure in Chekhov's early theater sketches, typically miserly, anxious, and morally slippery.