Arts & Culture – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 11, 2013 CN Editorial Team

‘Silent Night’ – First World War opera debuts in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Opera Company has given its debut performance of ‘Silent Night’ – an opera about the informal ‘Christmas Truce’ on the Western Front in 1914.

March 4, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to mark centenary of Archduke’s assassination with concert in Sarajevo, Bosnia

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is to mark the 100 year anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir apparent to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

March 4, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Florence Nightingale Museum acquires Tardieu oil paintings

Culture 24 reports that the Florence Nightingale Museum, London, England, has acquired a series of oil paintings by Victor Tardieu, which will be used to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

March 7, 2013 CN Editorial Team

M van Museum Leuven, Belgium, to host ‘Art and heritage in times of conflict’ exhibition

The M van Museum Leuven, Belgium, is to host an exhibition entitled ‘Art and heritage in times of conflict’.

March 9, 2013 CN Editorial Team

English choral society receives funding for new piece to mark Centenary

Sheringham & Cromer Choral Society, Norfolk, England, has been awarded a grant by Arts Council England to fund a new choral work to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War’s Centenary.

March 20, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Centenary theatre production: ‘The Passion of the Soldiers of the Great War’

La Passion des Soldats de la Grande Guerre is a Franco-German theatre project which will mark the Centenary of the First World War.

March 28, 2013 CN Editorial Team

National Portrait Gallery, London, plans to restore artwork for Centenary

The National Portrait Gallery, London, is seeking donations to restore the ‘Naval Officers of World War 1’ portrait, in time for the Centenary of the First World War.

April 14, 2013 CN Editorial Team

BBC Radio commissions Centenary drama to run from 2014-2018

BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a drama serial about life on the British Home Front during the First World War.

April 30, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Three Choirs Festival to mark Centenary of the First World War

The Three Choirs Festival is to create its own “choral memorial to the men who died on both sides and to those in each community left behind”, to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

May 2, 2013 CN Editorial Team

New musical ‘The Front’ to be launched in time for the Centenary of the First World War and Anzac

South Australian writer, Lane Hinchcliffe, has written a new musical, The Front, which will be launched “in time for the Centenary Commemorations of ANZAC and the First World War”.