Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

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Thomas Quasthoff is the most frequent winner of the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo from the German-speaking area. He has received the award three times so far.

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo , in German "Grammy Award for the best classical vocal solo", is a music prize that has been awarded by the Recording Academy in Los Angeles since 1959 . The award is given to artists from the field of classical music.

History and background

Since 1959, the Grammy Awards are presented annually in numerous categories by the Recording Academy in the United States to recognize artistic achievement, technical competence, and overall excellence regardless of album sales or chart position. One of these categories is the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo , which has been presented since 1959 .

As with many other Grammy Awards categories, the name of the award name has been changed slightly several times:

  • From 1959 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1964 the prize was Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra)
  • In 1961 he was named Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist awarded
  • In 1965 he was in Best Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra) renamed
  • 1966, 1968 and from 1971 to 1990 he was Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance called
  • 1967 was the award designation Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra)
  • In 1969 he was named Best Vocal Soloist Performance
  • In 1970 the award category was called Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical
  • In 1991 the award was named Best Classical Vocal Performance
  • In 1992, the price was Best Classical Vocal Soloist changed
  • From 1993 to 2011, he was again under the name Best Classical Vocal Performance award
  • From 2012 to 2014 the award designation was Best Classical Vocal Solo
  • Since 2015, the award has been given under the name Best Classical Solo Vocal Album .

Since 2015, the award has only been given for music albums. Before that, individual pieces of music were also awarded.

Winner and nominated artist

year winner nationality plant Nominees Picture of the winner (s)
1959 Renata Tebaldi ItalyItaly Italy Operatic recital Renata Tebaldi with Dina.jpg
1960 Jussi Björling SwedenSweden Sweden Bjoerling in Opera

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1961 Leontyne Price United StatesUnited States United States A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital

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1962 Joan Sutherland

with the Royal Opera House Orchestra under the direction of Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

AustraliaAustralia Australia The Art of the Prima Donna

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1963 Eileen Farrell

with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein

United StatesUnited States United States Richard Wagner : Götterdämmerung

1964 Leontyne Price

with the RCA Orchestra conducted by Skitch Henderson

United StatesUnited States United States Great Scenes From Gershwin ’s Porgy and Bess

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1965 Leontyne Price

with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner

United StatesUnited States United States Berlioz : Nuits d'Ete (song cycle) / Falla : El Amor Brujo

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1966 Leontyne Price

with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf

United StatesUnited States United States Strauss : Salome / The Egyptian Helena

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1967 Leontyne Price

with the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

United StatesUnited States United States Prima Donna (works by Barber , Purcell etc.)

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1968 Leontyne Price

with the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

United StatesUnited States United States Prima Donna, Volume 2

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1969 Montserrat Caballé

with the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and choir conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario

SpainSpain Spain Rossini : Rarities

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1970 Leontyne Price

with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Thomas Schippers

United StatesUnited States United States Barber : "Two Scenes from 'Antony and Cleopatra' / Knoxville, Summer of 1915"

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1971 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau GermanyGermany Germany Schubert : songs
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1972 Leontyne Price United StatesUnited States United States Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann
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1973 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau GermanyGermany Germany Brahms : The beautiful Magelone
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1974 Leontyne Price

with the Philharmonia Orchestra Orchestra conducted by Edward Downes

United StatesUnited States United States Puccini : Heroines
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1975 Leontyne Price United StatesUnited States United States Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss
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1976 Janet Baker United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Mahler : Kindertotenlieder
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1977 Beverly Sills United StatesUnited States United States Herbert : Music of Victor Herbert
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1978 Janet Baker

with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner

United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Bach : arias
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1979 Luciano Pavarotti ItalyItaly Italy Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center
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1980 Luciano Pavarotti ItalyItaly Italy O sole mio - Luciano Pavarotti sings Neapolitan songs
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1981 Leontyne Price

with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Henry Lewis

United StatesUnited States United States Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten
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1982 Marilyn Horne , Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland

with the New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge

United StatesUnited States United States


ItalyItaly Italy

AustraliaAustralia Australia

Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland / Horne / Pavarotti
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1983 Leontyne Price

with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta

United StatesUnited States United States Verdi : Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi)
  • Elly Ameling for Faure: La Bonne Chanson; Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis and Ariettes Oubliees
  • Jessye Norman for Berlioz: La Mort de Cleopatre
  • Kiri Te Kanawa for Mozart: Concert Arias (Andromeda, Il Burbero di Buon Core, Artaserse, Idomeneo, Cerere Placata)
  • Frederica von Stade for Frederica von Stade Live!
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1984 Marilyn Horne and Leontyne Price

with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted by James Levine

United StatesUnited States United States

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Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met
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1985 Heather Harper , Jessye Norman and José van Dam

with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez

United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom


United StatesUnited States United States

BelgiumBelgium Belgium

Ravel : Songs of Maurice Ravel
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1986 John Aler

with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and choir conducted by Robert Shaw

United StatesUnited States United States Berlioz : Requiem
1987 Kathleen Battle

with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

conducted by André Previn

United StatesUnited States United States Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart
  • Elly Ameling for Soire Francaise (Debussy, Faure, Poulenc, Franck, Canteloube, Roussel, Chausson, Messiaen, etc.)
  • Arleen Auger for Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for Soprano and Orchestra of Violincellos
  • Marni Nixon for Copland: 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson
  • Jessye Norman for R. Strauss: Lieder (Including Malven)
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1988 Kathleen Battle United StatesUnited States United States Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital
  • Elly Ameling for Soire Francaise (Debussy, Faure, Poulenc, Franck, Canteloube, Roussel, Chausson, Messiaen, etc.)
  • Arleen Auger for Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for Soprano and Orchestra of Violincellos
  • Marni Nixon for Copland: 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson
  • Jessye Norman for R. Strauss: Lieder (Including Malven)
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1989 Luciano Pavarotti

with the Emilia-Romagna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Emerson Buckley

ItalyItaly Italy Luciano Pavarotti in concert
  • Arleen Auger for Love Songs (Copland, R. Strauss, Poulenc, Mahler, Schumann, Gounod, Schubert)
  • Jan DeGaetani for Songs of America
  • Christa Ludwig for Schubert: Winter Journey
  • Jessye Norman for Handel, Schubert, Schumann: Lieder (Jessye Norman - Live at Hohenems)
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1990 Dawn Upshaw

with the Orchestra of St. Lukes conducted by David Zinman

United StatesUnited States United States Knoxville - Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber , Menotti , Harbison , Stravinsky )
1991 José Carreras , Plácido Domingo , Luciano Pavarotti

with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale under the direction of Zubin Mehta

SpainSpain Spain


SpainSpain Spain

ItalyItaly Italy

Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in concert
  • Elly Ameling for Schubert: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7
  • Jan DeGaetani for Berlioz: Les Nuits d Ete, Op. 7; Mahler: 5 Wunderhorn Songs and 5 Ruckert Songs
  • Thomas Hampson for Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler, Brahms, Schumann, Loewe, Strauss, Zemlinsky, von Weber)
  • Sanford Sylvan for Adams: The Wound-Dresser
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1992 Dawn Upshaw United StatesUnited States United States The Girl With Orange Lips ( Falla , Ravel , etc.)
  • Jan DeGaetani for Jan DeGaetani in Concert, Vol. 2 (Brahms, Schumann, etc.)
  • Thomas Hampson for Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer; 5 jerky songs
  • Samuel Ramey for Copland: Old American Songs; Ives: Songs
  • Cheryl Studer for Mozart: Arias
  • Sanford Sylvan for Beloved That Pilgrimage: Songs of Copland, Barber, Chanler
1993 Kathleen Battle and Margo Garrett United StatesUnited States United States Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall ( Handel , Mozart , Liszt , Strauss , etc.)
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1994 Arleen Auger United StatesUnited States United States The Art of Arleen Auger (Works of Larsen, Purcell , Schumann , Mozart )
  • Gabriela Beňačková for Dvořák, Janáček, Martinu: songs
  • Christa Ludwig for Farewell to Salzburg (Works of Brahms, Mahler, Schumann, Strauss)
  • Sylvia McNair for Exsultate Jubilate (Works of Handel, Mozart)
  • Anne Sofie von Otter for Grieg: Songs
1995 Cecilia Bartoli ItalyItaly Italy The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs by Beethoven , Schubert , Mozart
  • Dmitri Hvorostovsky for Songs and Dances of Death (Works of Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Borodin, etc.)
  • Peter Schreier for Mendelssohn: Songs (Der Mond; Reiselied, etc.)
  • Bryn Terfel for An Die Musik - Favorite Schubert Songs (Die Forelle; An Die Leier, etc.)
  • Anne Sofie von Otter for Love's Twilight - Late Romantic Songs by Berg, Korngold, R. Strauss
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1996 Sylvia McNair

with the Academy of Ancient Music conducted by Christopher Hogwood

United StatesUnited States United States The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell
  • Roberto Alagna for Roberto Alagna - Operatic Arias (Works of Donizetti, Massenet, etc.)
  • Wolfgang Holzmair for Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis, Op. 24; Heine songs
  • Sergei Leiferkus for Mussorgsky Songs (Songs and Dances of Death, The Nursery, etc)
  • Bryn Terfel for The Vagabond (Songs by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, etc.)
1997 Bryn Terfel

with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted by James Levine

United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Opera Arias - works by Mozart , Wagner , Borodin
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1998 Cecilia Bartoli ItalyItaly Italy An Italian Songbook (works by Bellini , Donizetti , Rossini )
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1999 Renée Fleming

with the English Chamber Orchestra

conducted by Jeffrey Tate

United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom The Beautiful Voice (works by Charpentier , Gounod etc.)
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2000 Anne Sofie von Otter and Thomas Quasthoff SwedenSweden Sweden

GermanyGermany Germany

Mahler: The boy's magic horn
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2001 Cecilia Bartoli (soloist),

Jonathan Stokes (sound engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer)

ItalyItaly Italy The Vivaldi Album (Dell'aura al sussurrar; Alma oppressa, etc.) Cecilia Bartoli at BOZAR 2007 Cropped.jpg
2002 Cecilia Bartoli (soloist),

Jonathan Stokes (sound engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer)

ItalyItaly Italy Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias (Tremo Gra 'Fubbi Miei; Die Questa Cetra In Seno, etc.)
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2003 Renée Fleming (soloist),

Jonathan Stokes, Neil Hutchinson and Tom Lazarus (sound engineers),

Erik Smith (producer)

United StatesUnited States United States Bel Canto ( Bellini , Donizetti , Rossini , etc.)
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2004 Thomas Quasthoff and Anne Sofie von Otter (soloists),

Jürgen Bulgrin and Oliver Rogalla von Heyden (sound engineers), Christopher Alder (producer)

GermanyGermany Germany

SwedenSweden Sweden

Schubert : songs with orchestra
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2005 Susan Graham (soloist) United StatesUnited States United States Ives : Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; the Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc.)
  • Angela Maria Blasi and Stella Doufexis for Marx: Orchestral Songs (Songs for High & Middle Voice; Verklartes Jahr)
  • Lorraine Hunt Lieberson for Handel: Arias (Theodora; La Lucrezia-Cantata; Serse)
  • Karita Mattila for Grieg and Sibelius Songs
  • Thomas Quasthoff for A Romantic Songbook (Strauss, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, etc)
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2006 Thomas Quasthoff (soloist),

Jürgen Bulgrin and Rainer Maillard (sound engineers),

Christopher Alder (producer)

GermanyGermany Germany Bach: Cantatas
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2007 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soloist) United StatesUnited States United States Rilke songs
2008 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soloist),

John Newton and Mark Donahue (sound engineers),

Dirk Sobotka (producer)

United StatesUnited States United States Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
2009 Hila Plitmann (soloist),

John Corigliano, Tim Handley and Tom Lazarus (sound engineers),

John Corigliano and Tim Handley (producers)

United StatesUnited States United States Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan
2010 Renee Fleming United StatesUnited States United States Verismo
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2011 Cecilia Bartoli ItalyItaly Italy Sacrificium
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2012 Joyce DiDonato United StatesUnited States United States Diva Divo
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2013 Renee Fleming United StatesUnited States United States Poemes
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2014 Dawn Upshaw United StatesUnited States United States Winter Morning Walks
2015 Anne Sofie von Otter SwedenSweden Sweden Douce France Anne Sofie von Otter 2011-10-13 002.jpg
2016 Joyce DiDonato (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist) United StatesUnited States United States


United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom

Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall
  • Mark Padmore (soloist), Kristian Bezuidenhout (accompanist) for Beethoven: An Die Ferne Geliebte; Haydn: English Songs; Mozart: Masonic Cantata
  • Jonas Kaufman (soloist), Antonio Pappano (conductor) for Nessun Dorma - The Puccini Album
  • Talise Trevigne (soloist), David Alan Miller (conductor) for Rouse: Seeing; Kabir Padavali
  • Cecilia Bartoli (soloist), Diego Fasolis (conductor) for St. Petersburg
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2017


Dorothea Röschmann (soloist), Mitsuko Uchida (accompanist)

Ian Bostridge (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist)

GermanyGermany Germany

United Kingdom

Schuman & Berg


Shakespeare songs

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2018 Barbara Hannigan CanadaCanada Canada Crazy Girl Crazy - Music by Gershwin, Berg & Berio
  • Philippe Jaroussky (soloist); Petra Müllejans (conductor) - Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas
  • Nicholas Phan (soloist); Myra Huang (Companion) - Gods & Monsters
  • Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor) - In War & Peace - Harmony Through Music
  • Dmitri Hvorostovsky (soloist); Constantine Orbelian (conductor) - Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift
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2019 Karim Sulayman (soloist); Jeannette Sorrell (conductor); Apollo's Fire (Ensemble) United StatesUnited States United States Songs of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi
  • Anthony Roth Costanzo (soloist); Jonathan Cohen (conductor) - Arc
  • Philippe Jaroussky (soloist); Artaserse (Ensemble) - The Handel Album
  • Sabine Devieilhe (soloist); Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor) - Mirages
  • Randall Scarlata (soloist); Gilbert Kalish (companion) - Schubert: Winter Journey
2020 Joyce DiDonato , accompanied by Chuck Israels , Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter and Craig Terry United StatesUnited States United States Songplay
  • The Edge of Silence - Works for Voice by György Kurtág by Susan Narucki (Donald Berman, Curtis Macomber, Kathryn Schulmeister and Nicholas Tolle)
  • Heavenly music by Philippe Jaroussky , Céline Scheen , L'Arpeggiata (ensemble), conducted by Christina Pluhar (Jesús Rodil and Dingle Yandell)
  • Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 24, Kerner-Lieder Op. 35 by Matthias Goerne , accompanied by Leif Ove Andsnes
  • A te, o cara by Stephen Costello with the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Constantine Orbelian
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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grammy Awards. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ The Official Site of the Grammy Awards - Overview. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  3. Winner Best Classical Vocal Solo. Accessed February 26, 2019 .