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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Composer Jennifer Higdon and mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke discuss the creative process and how Jennifer’s new work, Summer Music, came into being. How do composers and performers collaborate, exchange ideas, inspire each other? The atmosphere is casual, with a Q and A opportunity for the audience.

Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and pianist Myra Huang present a full recital, including the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s song cycle, Summer Music, composed for the tenth-anniversary Tucson Desert Song Festival as part of TDSF’s Wesley Green Composer Project. Because seating is limited, prior registration is required, and tickets will be distributed on a […]

Says TSO Music Director José Luis Gomez, "I’m excited to introduce Tucson audiences to Florence Price, the first female African-American composer of classical music, whose beautiful music is finally enjoying deserved appreciation. Sensational American soprano Nicole Cabell luxuriates in Samuel Barber’s vocal rhapsody, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony also celebrates song. You’ll hear a light touch […]

Says TSO Music Director José Luis Gomez, "I’m excited to introduce Tucson audiences to Florence Price, the first female African-American composer of classical music, whose beautiful music is finally enjoying deserved appreciation. Sensational American soprano Nicole Cabell luxuriates in Samuel Barber’s vocal rhapsody, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony also celebrates song. You’ll hear a light touch […]

University of Arizona voice professor Kristin Dauphinais presents students in the annual recital featuring more recent additions to the art-song repertory.

The program features Olga Amelkina-Vera's Sea Song, telling of the conflict in ancient Greek mythology between sailors and the sea-dwelling sirens--from the sirens' point of view. Music of Falla and Granados will complete the recital. HOW TO PURCHASE TICKETS You can purchase tickets on the Arizona Opera Website by clicking here or by clicking on […]

Ballet the Callaway (Ballet Tucson premiere in partnership with the Tucson Desert Song Festival) Starring Ann Hampton Callaway Choreography: Chieko Imada Ballet Tucson’s own acclaimed choreographer Chieko Imada joins forces with Broadway legend Ann Hampton Callaway to create an exciting new work featuring Callaway’s original compositions. Ballet Tucson’s artful professional dancers bring this premiere to […]

Ballet the Callaway (Ballet Tucson premiere in partnership with the Tucson Desert Song Festival) Starring Ann Hampton Callaway Choreography: Chieko Imada Ballet Tucson’s own acclaimed choreographer Chieko Imada joins forces with Broadway legend Ann Hampton Callaway to create an exciting new work featuring Callaway’s original compositions. Ballet Tucson’s artful professional dancers bring this premiere to […]

Ballet the Callaway (Ballet Tucson premiere in partnership with the Tucson Desert Song Festival) Starring Ann Hampton Callaway Choreography: Chieko Imada Ballet Tucson’s own acclaimed choreographer Chieko Imada joins forces with Broadway legend Ann Hampton Callaway to create an exciting new work featuring Callaway’s original compositions. Ballet Tucson’s artful professional dancers bring this premiere to […]

One of the most famous seductresses of all time is about to make her triumphant return. The ultimate diva, the gypsy Carmen can ignite men’s desires and fill their hearts with passion at a single glance. When Don José, a naïve soldier fighting in the Spanish Civil War, gets caught in her web, jealousy rages […]

One of the most famous seductresses of all time is about to make her triumphant return. The ultimate diva, the gypsy Carmen can ignite men’s desires and fill their hearts with passion at a single glance. When Don José, a naïve soldier fighting in the Spanish Civil War, gets caught in her web, jealousy rages […]

The leading soprano conducts a master class for University of Arizona voice students. Free and open to the public.

Susan Graham is particularly celebrated for her finesse with French repertoire, and the first half of this program will feature Les Nuits d’été by Berlioz. The second half promises to be a buffet of American standards--Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe. Partnering her at the piano will be TDSF stalwart Christopher Cano. HOW TO […]

By Christina Ham, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene A face-to-face musical evening with the fiery genius, activist, and musician that is Nina Simone. Following the 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, she rocked the nation with “Four Women,” her tribute in song to the four […]

By Christina Ham, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene A face-to-face musical evening with the fiery genius, activist, and musician that is Nina Simone. Following the 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, she rocked the nation with “Four Women,” her tribute in song to the four […]

By Christina Ham, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene A face-to-face musical evening with the fiery genius, activist, and musician that is Nina Simone. Following the 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, she rocked the nation with “Four Women,” her tribute in song to the four […]

By Christina Ham, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene A face-to-face musical evening with the fiery genius, activist, and musician that is Nina Simone. Following the 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, she rocked the nation with “Four Women,” her tribute in song to the four […]

By Christina Ham, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene A face-to-face musical evening with the fiery genius, activist, and musician that is Nina Simone. Following the 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, she rocked the nation with “Four Women,” her tribute in song to the four […]

By Christina Ham, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene A face-to-face musical evening with the fiery genius, activist, and musician that is Nina Simone. Following the 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, she rocked the nation with “Four Women,” her tribute in song to the four […]