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

Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi was the first recipient of the award.
1960 winner, Jussi Björling
Thirteen-time winner Leontyne Price
Two-time winner Joan Sutherland
1969 winner, Montserrat Caballé
Two-time winner Janet Baker
Five-time winner Luciano Pavarotti
Two-time winner Marilyn Horne
Three-time winner Kathleen Battle
Five-time winner Cecilia Bartoli
Three-time winner Anne Sofie von Otter
Four-time winner Renée Fleming
Year Recipient(s) Work Nominees Ref.
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>
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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
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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
2025 Karen Slack (soloist); Michelle Cann (pianist) Beyond the Years - Unpublished Songs of Florence Price <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2026 Winner TBA on 1 February 2026
  • Alison Charney (soloist); Benjamin Loeb (conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra) - Alike - My Mother's Dream
  • Sidney Outlaw (soloist); Warren Jones (pianist) - Black Pierrot
  • Devony Smith (soloist); Danny Zelibor (pianist); Michael Nicolas (accompanist) - In This Short Life
  • Susan Narucki (soloist); Curtis Macomber (accompanist) - Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
  • Theo Hoffman (soloist); Steven Blier (pianist) (Rupert Boyd, Julia Bullock, Alex Levine, Andrew Owens, Rubén Rengel & Sam Weber - additional vocalists and accompanists) - Schubert Beatles
  • Amanda Forsythe (soloist); Robert Mealy, Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs (conductors) - Telemann: Ino - Opera Arias for Sopranos
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