Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara wrote three piano concertos, the third one dedicated to Vladimir Ashkenazy, who played and conducted the world première.

A stage adaptation of the film by playwright Samuel Adamson received its world première at the Old Vic in London's West End on 4 September 2007.

and Half A Sixpence starring Tommy Steele received their world première at the theatre in the 1960s before transferring to the West End.

At the time of his death, Mullins was in production for the official world première.

A biographical, feature-length documentary titled Chasing Sound: Les Paul at 90 made its world première on May 9, 2007, at the Downer Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

* February 3 – The Symphony of the Air, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, gives the world première of Robert Moevs's Fourteen Variations for Orchestra ( composed in 1952 ) in New York.

* September 5 – The posthumous world première of Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 ( for the left hand ), composed in 1931, takes place in Berlin, performed by Siegfried Rapp and the West Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martin Rich.

* October 22 – Sigurd Rascher and the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra open their 1956 – 57 season with a concert including the world première of Carl Anton Wirth's Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra.

* January 21 – Paul Sacher conducts the world première of Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta in Basel.

* June 26-Václav Talich conducts the world première of Leoš Janáček's Sinfonietta in Prague

* October 21-Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto is given its world première in Paris

* April 1 – Manuel de Falla's opera La vida breve is given its world première in Nice.

* 29 August – Frida, a biopic starring Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo, receives its world première at the Venice International Film Festival.

Knussen wrote his Songs for Sue, a setting of four poems for soprano and 15-piece ensemble, as a memorial tribute to his late wife, and the music received its world première in Chicago in 2006.

He was the first to play the role of " The Russian " on the 1984 concept album Chess, and performed the same role on stage in the 1986 world première West End production in London, for which he was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award in category Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Musical.

The Liebeslied ( 1954 ) was written for Nono's wife-to-be, Nuria Schoenberg ( daughter of Arnold Schoenberg ), whom he met at the 1953 world première of Moses und Aron in Hamburg.

The world première of Il canto sospeso ( 1955 – 56 ) for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra brought Nono international recognition and acknowledgment as the legitimate successor to Webern.

In 1705, Hamburg gave the world première of his opera Nero.

In June 2005 the choristers performed the world première of Sir John Tavener's Missa Brevis for boys ' voices.

He has returned regularly to WNO as a guest conductor, notably for the world première of Peter Maxwell Davies ’ s The Doctor of Myddfai, and for Peter Stein ’ s 1988 production of Falstaff, which he also conducted in New York, Milan, Paris and Tokyo.

During this time he conducted operas including Jenůfa, From the House of the Dead, I due Foscari, Salome, Fidelio, Mary Stuart, Káťa Kabanová, Peter Grimes, Tristan und Isolde, La forza del destino, The Jacobin, La traviata, Il trovatore, the world première of James MacMillan ’ s Inês de Castro, ( a revival of which was broadcast by BBC television ), The Cunning Little Vixen, Turandot, Hansel and Gretel, La bohème, The Queen of Spades, Dalibor, Der Rosenkavalier, Macbeth, Parsifal, Don Giovanni, Erwartung, Bluebeard's Castle and The Knot Garden.

* Amadeus ( Peter Shaffer world première at the National Theatre ) 17 December 1980-16 October 1983

* Jean Seberg ( Marvin Hamlisch world première at the National Theatre ) 1 December 1983-4 April 1984

The world première was held in Kuibyshev on 5 March 1942.

The Frankfurt years were particularly noteworthy for his performance of Berg's Wozzek soon after the Berlin premiere under Erich Kleiber, and the world premiere of Schonberg's Von heute auf morgen.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

On the supply side, Brazil's arms exports were designed for developing world markets and were noted for their high quality, easy maintenance, good performance in adverse conditions, and low cost.

Some sabermetric statistics have entered the mainstream baseball world that measure a batter's overall performance including On-base plus slugging, commonly referred to as OPS.

Including these failed drug tests, 27 Chinese swimmers were caught using performance enhancing drugs from 1990 through 1997 ; more than the rest of the world combined.

HEEACT had also ranked Dalhousie 86th in the world and fourth nationally for research performance in geoscience in its 2010 rankings.

The Honduran maquiladora sector, the third-largest in the world, continued its strong performance in 2000, providing employment to over 120, 000 and generating more than $ 528 million in foreign exchange for the country.

Bench led the Reds to the world championship and was awarded the World Series Most Valuable Player Award for his performance.

Pakistan won the match after sterling all-round performance by Wasim Akram who scored 33 runs and picked up 3 crucial wickets to make Pakistan cricket world champions for the first and as of yet only time.

Paraguay's economic performance was also set back by world recession, poor weather conditions, and growing political and economic instability in Brazil and Argentina.

As the success of McCulloh ’ s parasail winchboat grew around the world, operators required different performance from their parasail canopies as they were no longer flying directly from the beach or a fixed platform.

It almost certainly will come some very strong reactions from the markets, which only will confirm that if in Spain eventually rise the crisis, the whole world will suffer the same fate, and nobody wants that situation, so that in the medium term despite all these financial reactions must moderate and the economic performance of Spain and Europe should return to normal and growth.

La Monte Young, her first important contact in the New York art world, helped Ono start her career by using her Chambers Street loft in Tribeca as a performance space.

The poem was an intro to a performance of the song " Imagine ", Lennon's anthem to world peace.

* The Jamaica national bobsled team received major media attention and stunned the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada for its unexpected good performance.

The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

Act 2 costume design for " la rappezzatrice " ( the clothes mender ) for the world premiere performance.

Note 1: Compared to tactical communications, long-haul communications are characterized by ( a ) higher levels of users, such as the National Command Authority, ( b ) more stringent performance requirements, such as higher quality circuits, ( c ) longer distances between users, including world wide distances, ( d ) higher traffic volumes and densities, ( e ) larger switches and trunk cross sections, and ( f ) fixed and recoverable assets.

By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world, and their performance at 1985's Live Aid is regarded as one of the greatest in rock history.

Simply exhibiting visual art, playing music or having a performance gets many artistic inventions out into the world.

Steinway employees, together with artists, dealers and friends from around the world celebrated the anniversary at the Laeiszhalle ( former Music Hall Hamburg ) with a gala concert, culminating in a showcase performance by the Steinway Artists Lang Lang, Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy and Detlef Kraus.

Their 1992 – 93 world tours were successful, culminating in a performance at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles in early 1993 that has been heavily bootlegged.

Tsukinamisai or the monthly service is the performance of the entire Mikagura-Uta, the sacred songs of the service, which is the service for world salvation.

It turned out to have " real world " performance that was considerably worse than expected.