"Mr. Bruce has played on this stage, jamming several times with Jon Bon Jovi, who got his start on this stage when he was 17. John Lennon and Yoko Ono sat at that bar and saw the first ever performance of 'Beatlemania.'...".
The creation was inaugurated with the first ever performance in China of Puccini's Turandot, a controversial opera in the country.
The BBC was broadcasting a piece of opera history - the first ever performance of Alban Berg's Lulu in its entirety.
Richard's a Woolfe in sheep's clothing this year The presentation of the new season was concluded with the first ever performance by the young people taking part in the Van Outen-fronted Hairspray: The School Musical - did you see what they did there?
In 1975, Pinnock played the harpsichord in the first ever performance of Rameau's last opera, Les Boréades, under John Eliot Gardiner.
As their influence grew their headquarters became socially important venues, with Middle Temple and Gray's Inn hosting, respectively, the first ever performances of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Comedy of Errors.
As a setting for anachronistic banquets, there can be few places to match Lincoln's Inn's Hogwartian "Great Hall" – even if it lacks the claim to fame of the similarly impressive halls of fellow inns Middle Temple and Gray's Inn, which respectively hosted the first ever performances of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Comedy of Errors.
But then, a few months ago, I discovered (from Henslowe's Diary) that the first ever performances of Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part I, Part II, Part III and Richard III were at the Rose theatre on Bankside.
Presented by Salvatore Ferragamo, the affair came with cocktails, a gala dinner, fashion show of the Italian designer's latest collection and the first-ever performance in the Center's 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater.
And Owen and Helen Clark were preparing for the first-ever performance, scheduled that night back in Salt Lake City, of the Clark Family Singers.
The 50th anniversary of the National Theatre's first ever performance is to be marked with several BBC programmes.
