6th International Concert Tour

We're headed to Italy! Want to come with us?

Join Sons of Orpheus for our 6th international concert tour

Rome, Tuscanny, and the Italian Riveria

including concert performances in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sienna Duomo,
Lucca, Florence, and the Cinque Terre

June 14–24, 2012

We invite new singers and former members of Sons of Orpheus to join us!

We also invite friends, relatives, and music lovers to join us for the tour.
We have plenty of space available for non-singers to accompany us on our travels.

Download a printable pdf of the flyer here.

We’re delighted to announce our forthcoming sixth European tour when we travel and perform in Italy, June 14th through June 24th, 2012. We’ll travel by bus to Phoenix where we board a British Airways flight to London, and then on to Rome. Ground travel in Italy will be by modern private motor coach. Our travel agent has indicated that our hotels are three-or-four-star, and all include buffet breakfasts. Most other meals are our own responsibilities.

The performance highlight of our tour takes place in the Eternal City where we spend three nights and become full participants in the celebration of the 4:00 P.M. Sunday Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter. St. Peter’s is considered “the greatest of all churches of Christendom.” One of the holiest Catholic sites, it has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world. Michelangelo, then in his 70s, is regarded as the principal designer of a large part of the building as it stands today.

After sightseeing in Rome, we will travel to Tuscany and the medieval cities of Florence and Sienna, the historic centers of which are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. We will give a concert performance in the Sienna Duomo, the historic Gothic Cathedral filled with ornate and irreplaceable treasures, and then proceed a short distance to Florence.  We expect to spend three glorious days there and to give a concert in one of its major cathedrals, or perhaps in the Roman Amphitheater in Fiesole, an ancient Etruscan and Roman town overlooking central Florence. We expect to arrange a “No two-hour-waiting-line” rapid admission to the Uffizi gallery in Florence, one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western World.

We then proceed to the city of Lucca where we plan to perform, and then northwest to the Liguria region of Italy and its Cinque Terre, five towns on a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera, designated a national park and a UNESCO protected territory. We will perform in a small community church in one of the towns by the sea.

Following our performance, we’ll leave the Italian Riviera and travel by bus to Milan, Italy’s second largest city, located in the Province of Lombardy. We will celebrate the final evening of our tour with a delightful banquet for our choristers and our fellow travelers, overnight there, and depart the following noon to London, Phoenix, and home where we will have some time to collect our thoughts and our memorabilia after our sojourn in some of the greatest and most ancient cities of Western Civilization. 

If you are interested in joining Sons of Orpheus as a singer, call Artistic Director Grayson Hirst, Professor of Voice at the U of A: 621-1649. We also hope that our friends and admirers will accompany us on our well-planned journey as on Sons of Orpheus’s prior international concert tours. We are well on our way to fifty travelers counting singers and roadies. That figure puts the cost at $4000 for each traveler plus $133 for trip insurance ($102 for those age 30 and under). If we get sixty travelers the cost will be $3,880. For those traveling “land only” the cost is $1,400 less for each person and insurance is somewhat lower depending on the number of days you’ll be traveling and other requirements by the travel agency. All checks should be written to Sons of Orpheus, and we will remit the money to Casterbridge, our travel agent. Payment deadline is March 1st.

For more information, please send queries to our email:

—Larry Ross, President of the Board of Directors of Sons of Orpheus, the Male Choir of Tucson

If you are interested in traveling with us to Italy in 2012 or would like more information,
please e-mail us at

or call
Grayson Hirst at 520-621-1649