Consider first-night nerves
3(nerves) Feelings of nervousness: his first-night nerves soon disappeared
I don't normally get stage fright or nerves before a performance but today I'm like a child on Christmas Eve.
First-night nerves aside, what she fears most is being left alone… without her Tim.
He was visibly, rather endearingly, anxious, shaking with nerves at some points; she kept erupting into fits of maniacal chuckles at some secret joke.
From http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/nerve
