régisseur

[ rey-zhuh-sur; French rey-zhee-sœr ]

noun

, plural ré·gis·seurs [rey-zh, uh, -, surz, r, ey-zhee-, sœr].

1. someone responsible for the staging of a theatrical work, especially of a ballet; director.

régisseur

/ reʒisœr /

noun

1. an official in a dance company with varying duties, usually including directing productions

Word History and Origins

Origin of régisseur¹

< French: manager, agent, steward, equivalent to régiss-, long stem of régir to govern, manage ( Middle French ≪ Latin regere; regent ) + -eur -eur

Word History and Origins

Origin of régisseur¹

from régir to manage

Example Sentences

With staging by McKenzie and Susan Jones, the company’s régisseur, the production focuses on the spirited Kitri whose love, Basilio, a poor barber, is dismissed by her father, Lorenzo, who wants her to wed Gamache, a rich, affected nobleman.

From New York Times

Two years ago, in preparation for mounting his revival of Marius Petipa’s 1890 “Sleeping Beauty,” Ratmansky and his wife, Tatiana Ratmanskaya—she is also his régisseur—spent two months in the Harvard Theatre Collection, teaching themselves to read the choreographic scripts for “Beauty” that were written down in the early years of the twentieth century in a now obsolete system called Stepanov notation.

From The New Yorker

New owners looking to maintain strong vineyard teams should also try to cultivate a strong relationship with their vineyard’s chief of staff, called a régisseur, says Bertrand Couturier, associate director of Barnes International Realty.

From Wall Street Journal

In 1905, "The Sleeping Beauty" was notated using this system, by a team that included Nicholas Sergeyev, the company's régisseur.

From Los Angeles Times

The production is supervised by Wendy Ellis Somes, who danced Cinderella and several supporting roles in Ashton’s lifetime; she inherited the production from her husband, Michael Somes, its original Prince and the longtime chief régisseur of Ashton’s work at Covent Garden.

From New York Times