world premiere

noun

1. the first public performance of a play, motion picture, musical work, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of world premiere¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

For its just-ended fall season, New York City Ballet programmed during the last of its four weeks its one world premiere.

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Groundbreaking moments in its early years included the world premiere of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, a 16-hour broadcast of the Live Aid concerts in 1985, and the birth of the MTV Video Music Awards.

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Rogue Machine Theatre’s world premiere production of “Adolescent Salvation” takes place in the bedroom of a withdrawn high school girl harboring a dangerous secret.

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We’re sitting down a few days after the movie’s world premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre, which came on the heels of another screening at the Directors Guild that had Steven Spielberg interviewing Anderson afterward.

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Also at the bottom of the poster, which has become a place for the festival to announce special engagements, is the world premiere of Anyma’s “Æden.”

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