Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Template:Short description Template:Infobox award The Grammy Award – Best Classical Vocal Solo has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:
- From 1959 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1964 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra)
- In 1961 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
- In 1965 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra)
- In 1966, 1968 and from 1971 to 1990 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
- In 1967 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra)
- In 1969 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance
- In 1970 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical
- In 1991 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Performance
- In 1992 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Soloist
- From 1993 to 2011 it returned to being awarded as Best Classical Vocal Performance
- From 2012 to 2014 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Solo
- From 2015 the award has been known as Best Classical Solo Vocal Album and is open for albums only (in previous years single tracks were also eligible for the award, although in most cases the awards and nominations went to albums)
Up to and including 2015, the Grammy was awarded to one or more vocal soloist(s). Accompanying musicians, orchestras and/or conductors were not eligible for the award. From 2016, "collaborative artists" (such as solo accompanists, conductors or chamber groups) have also been included. Accompanying large orchestras or multiple instrumentalists, however, remain ineligible.<ref>List of Nominees, 7 December 2015</ref> Producer(s) and engineer(s)/mixers of over 50% of playing time on the recording also receive an award.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
Recipients
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| Year | Recipient(s) | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
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| 1959 | Renata Tebaldi | Operatic Recital | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1960 | Jussi Björling | Bjoerling in Opera | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1961 | Leontyne Price | A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1962 | Joan Sutherland | The Art of the Prima Donna | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1963 | Eileen Farrell | Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1964 | Leontyne Price | Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1965 | Leontyne Price | Berlioz: Nuits d'Ete (Song Cycle)/Falla: El Amor Brujo | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1966 | Leontyne Price | Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1967 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna (Works of Barber, Purcell, etc.) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1968 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna, Volume 2 | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1969 | Montserrat Caballé | Rossini: Rarities | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1970 | Leontyne Price | Barber: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915 | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1971 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Schubert: Lieder | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1972 | Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1973 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Brahms: Die Schone Magelone | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1974 | Leontyne Price | Puccini: Heroines | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1975 | Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1976 | Janet Baker | Mahler: Kindertotenlieder | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1977 | Beverly Sills | Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1978 | Janet Baker | Bach: Arias | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1979 | Luciano Pavarotti | Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1980 | Luciano Pavarotti | O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1981 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1982 | Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland | Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1983 | Leontyne Price | Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1984 | Marilyn Horne and Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1985 | Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam | Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1986 | John Aler | Berlioz: Requiem | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1987 | Kathleen Battle | Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1988 | Kathleen Battle | Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1989 | Luciano Pavarotti | Luciano Pavarotti in Concert | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1990 | Dawn Upshaw | Knoxville - Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1991 | José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti | Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1992 | Dawn Upshaw | The Girl With Orange Lips (Falla, Ravel, etc.) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1993 | Kathleen Battle & Margo Garrett | Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, etc.) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1994 | Arleen Auger | The Art of Arleen Auger (Works of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1995 | Cecilia Bartoli | The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1996 | Sylvia McNair | The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1997 | Bryn Terfel | Opera Arias - Works of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1998 | Cecilia Bartoli | An Italian Songbook (Works of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1999 | Renée Fleming | The Beautiful Voice (Works of Charpentier, Gounod etc.) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2000 | Anne Sofie von Otter & Thomas Quasthoff | Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2001 | Cecilia Bartoli (artist), Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer) | The Vivaldi Album (Dell'aura al sussurrar; Alma oppressa, etc.) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2002 | Cecilia Bartoli (artist), Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer) | Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias (Tremo Gra' Fubbi Miei; Die Questa Cetra In Seno, etc.) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2003 | Renée Fleming (artist), Jonathan Stokes, Neil Hutchinson & Tom Lazarus (engineers), Erik Smith (producer) | Bel Canto (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, etc.) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2004 | Thomas Quasthoff & Anne Sofie von Otter (soloists), Jürgen Bulgrin & Oliver Rogalla Von Heyden (engineers), Christopher Alder (producer) | Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2005 | Susan Graham | Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; the Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc.) | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2006 | Thomas Quasthoff (soloist), Jürgen Bulgrin & Rainer Maillard (engineers), Christopher Alder (producer) | Bach: Cantatas | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2007 | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson | Rilke Songs | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2008 | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soloist), John Newton & Mark Donahue (engineers), Dirk Sobotka (producer) | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2009 | Hila Plitmann (soloist), John Corigliano, Tim Handley & Tom Lazarus (engineers), John Corigliano & Tim Handley (producers) | Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2010 | Renee Fleming | Verismo | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2011 | Cecilia Bartoli | Sacrificium | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2012 | Joyce DiDonato | Diva Divo | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2013 | Renee Fleming | Poèmes | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2014 | Dawn Upshaw | Winter Morning Walks | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2015 | Anne Sofie von Otter | Douce France | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2016 | Joyce DiDonato (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist) | Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2017 | Dorothea Röschmann (soloist), Mitsuko Uchida (accompanist) | Schumann & Berg | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Ian Bostridge (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist) | Shakespeare Songs | |||
| 2018 | Barbara Hannigan | Crazy Girl Crazy - Music by Gershwin, Berg & Berio | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2019 | Karim Sulayman (soloist); Apollo's Fire (ensemble) | Songs of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2020 | Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry (accompanists) | Songplay | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2021 | Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton (soloists); James Blachly (conductor) | Smyth: The Prison Template:Dot(Experimental Chorus & Experimental Orchestra) |
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| 2022 | Sangeeta Kaur & Hilla Plitmann (soloists); Danae Xanthe Vlasse (piano) | Mythologies | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2023 | Renée Fleming (soloist) & Yannick Nézet-Séguin (accompanist) | Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene | Template:Smalldiv | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2024 | Julia Bullock (soloist); Christian Reif (conductor) | Walking in the Dark |
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| 2025 | Karen Slack (soloist); Michelle Cann (pianist) | Beyond the Years - Unpublished Songs of Florence Price |
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| 2026 | Winner TBA on 1 February 2026 |
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