curtain raiser in English
noun
1
an entertainment or other arts event happening just before a longer or more important one.
Bach's Sinfonia in B flat was an ideal curtain-raiser to Mozart's last piano concerto
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1. The BIMSTEC Summit’s curtain-raiser programme this evening is very important from West Bengal’s perspective.
2. It gives me great pleasure to participate in this Curtain Raiser event to BIMSTEC Summit 2008.
3. The operations against the Palaus, however, turned out to be only a curtain-raiser for the show to come — the recapture of the Philippines.