Our festival opening event is free to the public and it is made possible thanks to our collaboration with the Fred Fox School of Music. University of Arizona faculty artist Dr. Kristin Dauphinais will host the opening lecture for the 2021 festival, which celebrates songs of love. UA voice students will perform selections relating to […]

Featuring music by and for Italy’s first professional women composers and performers, Jolle Greenleaf, Molly Quinn, and Virginia Kelsey Warnken and their instrumental counterparts bring to life the history of this repertoire. At a time when women were subservient and little accepted as composers and performers, they were writing and singing unforgettably sensuous and expressive […]

After her electric Tucson recital debut in 2019, soprano Corinne Winters returns for another exciting program of art song and opera aria favorites, entitled "A Woman's Legacy." Click here to purchase tickets to this event.  

After her electric Tucson recital debut in 2019, soprano Corinne Winters returns for another exciting program of art song and opera aria favorites, entitled "A Woman's Legacy." Click here to purchase tickets to this event. (This performance is currently sold out. Tickets are still available for the performance on April 9th.)

The Live Performance - Monday, May 10th, 3 p.m.  Please join the Tucson Desert Song Festival for the World Premiere of What I Miss the Most, a song cycle composed by Jake Heggie and performed by Jamie Barton, who will be accompanied by Heggie himself. The texts for this song cycle, which was commissioned by the […]

Be sure not to miss Bryan Hymel's virtual Masterclass. This is a free event: the link is available now and will remain active for 130 days. Click on the link below to access the Masterclass. Bryan Hymel Masterclass  

This year, Tucson Guitar Society is partnering with TDSF to bring a free concert aimed at celebrating the rich Latin American song tradition and their songs of love. The program will feature boleros and other canciones de antaño. You can access this free concert, which will be streamed on YouTube, using the link below: https://youtu.be/unEWVPueJK8 […]

Virtual Recital Now Available Arizona Opera is proud to partner with the Tucson Desert Song Festival in presenting a virtual recital by the acclaimed tenor Bryan Hymel.  Hailed by The New York Times for his "unflagging stamina and impetuous abandon," Hymel is the winner of the Metropolitan Operas Beverly Sills Artist Award and the Olivier […]

This event is free to the public and it is made possible thanks to our collaboration with the Fred Fox School of Music. Featuring works of contemporary art song with new trends and new discoveries, the program will be performed by distinguished UA vocal students. Click on the link below to access this virtual event: […]

Because of concerns over the Omicron surge, this recital has been postponed to a date to be announced. Ailyn Pérez is planning a recital that falls into two distinct halves: German art songs, featuring the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss, and Mexican art songs, focusing especially on music by Manuel Ponce and Maria Grever. Abdiel […]