ring up the curtain

Meaning: (idiomatic)tostartsomething1879,The Peterson magazine - Volumes 75-76, page444:I caught her in my arms; she kissed me, pushed me gently away, and added: “Ring up the curtain, uncle. Little Moccasin is ready"1976, Waldemar Gutwinski,Cohesion in Literary Texts: A study of some grammatical and lexical features of English discourse,→ISBN:She remembered perfectly the first sign he had given of it — it had been like the bell that was toring up the curtainupon the real drama of their life.1992, Albro Martin,Railroads Triumphant,→ISBN:After Congress had waited as long as it was willing to wait for Durant toring up the curtain, it was lucky when all seemed lost to get the blessing, the services, and a great deal of the personal capital of one of the most wrongly judged men in the history of American railroad leadership: Oakes Ames.2014, Ernest Newman,The Life of Richard Wagner,→ISBN, page49:He was one of those who hold that revolutions are not made with rose-water; and with strange prescience he looked to the Russian peasant's hatred of his oppressors toring up the curtainon a world-drama that should mean the destruction of civilisation.

Examples:

EN: All of us invited that afternoon to attend an understudy's performance, about which the management knew nothing until they were forced to ring up the curtain at nine o'clock.
ES: Todos nosotros invitados aquella tarde a presenciar la actuación de una suplente, de lo cual la dirección no supo nada hasta que se vieron obligados a abrir el telón a las nueve en punto.

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