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Victoria International Arts Festival (VIAF) is Malta’s longest-running Festival of its kind. Taking place over an uninterrupted period of five weeks, all concerts and cultural events are free of charge. It’s been dubbed ‘Gozo’s miracle’ and ‘a quiet revolution’. Be part of it!
Saturday, 26 March 2022
Friday 10 June - Monday 11 July 2022
It's been a long road, the paths not always smooth but the determination unfailing and the vision clear.
This year, VIAF is celebrating a milestone since it was first formalised as a Festival twenty-five years ago. Mro Joseph Vella and his team had for ye…
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Monday, 12 July 2021
As all good things must come to an end, so did this year's edition of a very prestigious festival. …
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Friday, 9 July 2021
This was the festival's fifth consecutive live performance I followed last week and third at the Au…
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Thursday, 8 July 2021
An incredible momentum is driving highly accomplished performers in a crescendo of superb achieveme…
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Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Quoting from my diary, written late last night while still dazed and spellbound by the performance:…
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Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Just a reminder: the two protagonists above may share the same surname, but are not even remotely r…
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Monday, 5 July 2021
If used well all instruments, the human voice included are indeed beautiful. They come in various s…
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Saturday, 3 July 2021
Natascha Chircop and Marco Rivoltini are a highly accomplished and widely respected husband-and-wif…
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Saturday, 26 June 2021
Joanne Camilleri is to my mind one of our most diligent and extremely well-prepared performers. Whi…
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Tuesday, 22 June 2021
The beauty of music is that it has no borders. It brings together artists from different countries and here was the case with this event, second one this week to a live audience. Inmaculada Muñoz Salgüero is from Spain and like Polish pianist Julia Miller, has been resident in Malta for a number of…
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