Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo | |
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Awarded for | quality classic vocal solos |
Country | United States |
Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | 1959 |
Currently held by | Renée Fleming (soloist) and Yannick Nézet-Séguin (accompanist) - Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene (2023) |
Website | grammy.com |
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.[1] Producer(s) and engineer(s) 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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Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi was the first recipient of the award.
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1960 winner, Jussi Björling.
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Thirteen-time winner Leontyne Price.
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Two-time winner Joan Sutherland.
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1969 winner, Montserrat Caballé.
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Two-time winner Janet Baker.
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Five-time winner Luciano Pavarotti.
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Two-time winner Marilyn Horne.
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Three-time winner Kathleen Battle.
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Five-time winner Cecilia Bartoli.
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Three-time winner Anne Sofie von Otter.
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Four-time winner Renée Fleming.
Year | Recipients(s) | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
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1959 | Renata Tebaldi | Operatic Recital |
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1960 | Jussi Björling | Bjoerling in Opera |
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[3] |
1961 | Leontyne Price | A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital |
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[4] |
1962 | Joan Sutherland | The Art of the Prima Donna |
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[5] |
1963 | Eileen Farrell | Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs |
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[6] |
1964 | Leontyne Price | Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess |
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[7] |
1965 | Leontyne Price | Berlioz: Nuits d'Ete (Song Cycle)/Falla: El Amor Brujo |
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[8] |
1966 | Leontyne Price | Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene) |
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[9] |
1967 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna (Works of Barber, Purcell, etc.) |
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[10] |
1968 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna, Volume 2 |
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[11] |
1969 | Montserrat Caballé | Rossini: Rarities |
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[12] |
1970 | Leontyne Price | Barber: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915 |
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[13] |
1971 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Schubert: Lieder |
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[14] |
1972 | Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann |
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[15] |
1973 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Brahms: Die Schone Magelone |
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[16] |
1974 | Leontyne Price | Puccini: Heroines |
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[17] |
1975 | Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss |
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[18] |
1976 | Janet Baker | Mahler: Kindertotenlieder |
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[19] |
1977 | Beverly Sills | Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert |
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[20] |
1978 | Janet Baker | Bach: Arias |
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[21] |
1979 | Luciano Pavarotti | Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center |
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[22] |
1980 | Luciano Pavarotti | O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs |
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[23] |
1981 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten |
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[24] |
1982 | Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland | Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti |
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[25] |
1983 | Leontyne Price | Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi) |
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[26] |
1984 | Marilyn Horne and Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met |
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[27] |
1985 | Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam | Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel |
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[28] |
1986 | John Aler | Berlioz: Requiem |
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[29] |
1987 | Kathleen Battle | Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart |
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[30] |
1988 | Kathleen Battle | Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital |
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[31] |
1989 | Luciano Pavarotti | Luciano Pavarotti in Concert |
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[32] |
1990 | Dawn Upshaw | Knoxville - Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky) |
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[33] |
1991 | José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti | Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert |
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[34] |
1992 | Dawn Upshaw | The Girl With Orange Lips (Falla, Ravel, etc.) |
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[35] |
1993 | Kathleen Battle & Margo Garrett | Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, etc.) |
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[36] |
1994 | Arleen Auger | The Art of Arleen Auger (Works of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart) |
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[37] |
1995 | Cecilia Bartoli | The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart |
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[38] [39] |
1996 | Sylvia McNair | The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell |
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[40] |
1997 | Bryn Terfel | Opera Arias - Works of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin |
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[41] |
1998 | Cecilia Bartoli | An Italian Songbook (Works of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini) |
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[42] |
1999 | Renée Fleming | The Beautiful Voice (Works of Charpentier, Gounod etc.) |
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[43] |
2000 | Anne Sofie von Otter & Thomas Quasthoff | Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn |
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[44] |
2001 | Cecilia Bartoli (artist), Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer) | The Vivaldi Album (Dell'aura al sussurrar; Alma oppressa, etc.) |
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[45] |
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.) |
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[46] |
2003 | Renée Fleming (artist), Jonathan Stokes, Neil Hutchinson & Tom Lazarus (engineers), Erik Smith (producer) | Bel Canto (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, etc.) |
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[47] |
2004 | Thomas Quasthoff & Anne Sofie von Otter (soloists), Jürgen Bulgrin & Oliver Rogalla Von Heyden (engineers), Christopher Alder (producer) | Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra |
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[48] |
2005 | Susan Graham | Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; the Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc.) |
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[49] |
2006 | Thomas Quasthoff (soloist), Jürgen Bulgrin & Rainer Maillard (engineers), Christopher Alder (producer) | Bach: Cantatas |
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[50] |
2007 | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson | Rilke Songs |
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[51] |
2008 | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soloist), John Newton & Mark Donahue (engineers), Dirk Sobotka (producer) | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs |
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[52] |
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 |
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[53] |
2010 | Renee Fleming | Verismo |
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[54] |
2011 | Cecilia Bartoli | Sacrificium |
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[55] |
2012 | Joyce DiDonato | Diva Divo |
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[56] |
2013 | Renee Fleming | Poèmes |
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[57] |
2014 | Dawn Upshaw | Winter Morning Walks |
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[58] |
2015 | Anne Sofie von Otter | Douce France |
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[59] |
2016 | Joyce DiDonato (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist) | Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall |
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[60] |
2017 | Dorothea Röschmann (soloist), Mitsuko Uchida (accompanist) | Schumann & Berg |
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[61] |
Ian Bostridge (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist) | Shakespeare Songs | |||
2018 | Barbara Hannigan | Crazy Girl Crazy - Music by Gershwin, Berg & Berio |
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[62] |
2019 | Karim Sulayman (soloist); Apollo's Fire (ensemble) | Songs of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi |
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[63] |
2020 | Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry (accompanists) | Songplay |
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[64] |
2021 | Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton (soloists); James Blachly (conductor) | Smyth: The Prison · (Experimental Chorus & Experimental Orchestra) |
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[65] |
2022 | Sangeeta Kaur & Hilla Plitmann (soloists); Danae Xanthe Vlasse (piano) | Mythologies |
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[66] |
2023 | Renée Fleming (soloist) & Yannick Nézet-Séguin (accompanist) | Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene |
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[67] |
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