Join us in Tucson for an extraordinary festival of singing! Between concerts, you can enjoy the beautiful high-desert winter temperatures and recreation from mountain climbing to golf. Stratford Art Works, Inc., has purchased the 106-year-old Teatro Carmen in downtown Tucson with plans to resurrect it as an active community arts and cultural space. Nicole Cabell sings Mahler’s Fourth with the Tucson Symphony, and Vanessa Vasquez portrays Micäela in Carmen with the Arizona Opera. The world premiere of a new song cycle by composer Jennifer Higdon, written for Sasha Cooke, highlights an all-star cast: Susan Graham in recital, Dianne Reeves in concert with the Tucson Jazz Festival, Ailyn Pérez in recital, Susanna Phillips with True Concord Voices and Orchestra, and Anne Hampton Callaway with Ballet Tucson. Beginning in January 2022, the Festival’s tenth season celebrates Women of Song. Commissioned works of composers including Richard Danielpour and Jake Heggie are features of each festival. Renée Fleming, Bobby McFerrin, Jamie Barton, Bernadette Peters, Matthew Polenzani and Nadine Sierra, along with more than one hundred others, have graced the stages of Tucson with our outstanding performing arts partners. Over the years, Festival artists have encompassed every vocal genre, from opera to Broadway to jazz. From its lighthearted beginnings to its tragic and destined climax, Carmen is not to be missed. Beginning in January of each year, TDSF brings to Tucson the finest singers from the most important stages of the world to work with Tucson’s outstanding performing arts organizations. The Tucson Desert Song Festival (TDSF) is an annual gathering of great voices, great music making and beautiful winter weather in Southern Arizona. He won great praise in his hometown of Tucson, Arizona when he performed Calaf, one of his many signature roles, in the Arizona Opera production of Turandot.
TUCSON JAZZ FESTIVAL TDSF CELEBRATES “Women of Song” in 2022