"opening night" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "With their lead cut to 14-7, England could have got twitchy, but any opening-night nerves were eased as United States centre Alev Kelter, who plays her club rugby with Loughborough Lightning, was shown yellow a minute after Jarrell-Searcy's score.",
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        "The first night, evening, or day of a spectacle or show."
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        "The first event in a new venue."
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