TUCSON DESERT SONG FESTIVAL

TDSF CELEBRATES

“Women of Song” in 2022

The Tucson Desert Song Festival (TDSF) is an annual gathering of great voices, great music making and beautiful winter weather in Southern Arizona. 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. Over the years, Festival artists have encompassed every vocal genre, from opera to Broadway to jazz. 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. Commissioned works of composers including Richard Danielpour and Jake Heggie are features of each festival. Beginning in January 2022, the Festival’s tenth season celebrates Women of Song. 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. Nicole Cabell sings Mahler’s Fourth with the Tucson Symphony, and Vanessa Vasquez portrays Micäela in Carmen with the Arizona Opera. 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. For more information, visit TucsonSongFest.org or call (888) 546-3305.