opening night

English

Noun

opening night (plural opening nights)

1. The first night, evening, or day of a spectacle or show.
   • 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     I’m writing in pure hyperbole. I know this. I just don’t know another way to talk about this movie. Watching Fury Road in the theater on opening night, I worried that I was being obnoxious, gleefully cackling with glee and, more than once, literally throwing my hands up in disbelief.

2. The first event in a new venue.

See also

• opening ceremony
• first night
• première