Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

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) 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.
1959	Renata Tebaldi	Operatic Recital	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1960	Jussi Björling	Bjoerling in Opera	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1961	Leontyne Price	A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1962	Joan Sutherland	The Art of the Prima Donna	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1963	Eileen Farrell	Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1964	Leontyne Price	Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1965	Leontyne Price	Berlioz: Nuits d'Ete (Song Cycle)/Falla: El Amor Brujo	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1966	Leontyne Price	Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1967	Leontyne Price	Prima Donna (Works of Barber, Purcell, etc.)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1968	Leontyne Price	Prima Donna, Volume 2	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1969	Montserrat Caballé	Rossini: Rarities	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1970	Leontyne Price	Barber: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1971	Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau	Schubert: Lieder	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1972	Leontyne Price	Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1973	Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau	Brahms: Die Schone Magelone	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1974	Leontyne Price	Puccini: Heroines	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1975	Leontyne Price	Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1976	Janet Baker	Mahler: Kindertotenlieder	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1977	Beverly Sills	Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1978	Janet Baker	Bach: Arias	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1979	Luciano Pavarotti	Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1980	Luciano Pavarotti	O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1981	Leontyne Price	Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1982	Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland	Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1983	Leontyne Price	Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1984	Marilyn Horne and Leontyne Price	Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1985	Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam	Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1986	John Aler	Berlioz: Requiem	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1987	Kathleen Battle	Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1988	Kathleen Battle	Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1989	Luciano Pavarotti	Luciano Pavarotti in Concert	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1990	Dawn Upshaw	Knoxville - Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1991	José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti	Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1992	Dawn Upshaw	The Girl With Orange Lips (Falla, Ravel, etc.)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1993	Kathleen Battle & Margo Garrett	Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, etc.)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1994	Arleen Auger	The Art of Arleen Auger (Works of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1995	Cecilia Bartoli	The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1996	Sylvia McNair	The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1997	Bryn Terfel	Opera Arias - Works of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1998	Cecilia Bartoli	An Italian Songbook (Works of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1999	Renée Fleming	The Beautiful Voice (Works of Charpentier, Gounod etc.)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2000	Anne Sofie von Otter & Thomas Quasthoff	Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2005	Susan Graham	Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; the Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc.)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2006	Thomas Quasthoff (soloist), Jürgen Bulgrin & Rainer Maillard (engineers), Christopher Alder (producer)	Bach: Cantatas	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2007	Lorraine Hunt Lieberson	Rilke Songs	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2010	Renee Fleming	Verismo	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2011	Cecilia Bartoli	Sacrificium	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2012	Joyce DiDonato	Diva Divo	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2013	Renee Fleming	Poèmes	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2014	Dawn Upshaw	Winter Morning Walks	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2015	Anne Sofie von Otter	Douce France	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	Joyce DiDonato (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist)	Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	Dorothea Röschmann (soloist), Mitsuko Uchida (accompanist)	Schumann & Berg	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Ian Bostridge (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist)	Shakespeare Songs
2018	Barbara Hannigan	Crazy Girl Crazy - Music by Gershwin, Berg & Berio	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2019	Karim Sulayman (soloist); Apollo's Fire (ensemble)	Songs of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry (accompanists)	Songplay	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2021	Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton (soloists); James Blachly (conductor)	Smyth: The Prison Template:Dot(Experimental Chorus & Experimental Orchestra)	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Sangeeta Kaur & Hilla Plitmann (soloists); Danae Xanthe Vlasse (piano)	Mythologies	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023	Renée Fleming (soloist) & Yannick Nézet-Séguin (accompanist)	Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene	Template:Smalldiv	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2024	Julia Bullock (soloist); Christian Reif (conductor)	Walking in the Dark	Reginald Mobley (soloist); Baptiste Trotignon (accompanist) - Because Karim Sulayman (soloist); Sean Shibe (accompanist) - Broken Branches Laura Strickling (soloist); Daniel Schlosberg (accompanist) - 40@40 Lawrence Brownlee (soloist); Kevin J. Miller (accompanist) - Rising
2025	Karen Slack (soloist); Michelle Cann (pianist)	Beyond the Years - Unpublished Songs of Florence Price	Nicholas Phan (soloist); Palaver Strings (ensemble) - A Change Is Gonna Come Fotina Naumenko (soloist); Marika Bournaki (pianist) - Newman: Bespoke Songs Will Liverman (soloist); Jonathan King (pianist) - Show Me The Way Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor of Il Pomo d'Oro) - Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>