Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for 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
- In 1961 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
- In 1965 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance
- 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
- 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
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
2020s
Grammy Awards of 2020- Joyce DiDonato ; Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry - Songplay
- Nominees
- *Susan Narucki - The Edge of Silence - Works For Voice by György Kurtág
- *Philippe Jaroussky & Céline Scheen ; Christina Pluhar ; l'Arpeggiata - Himmelsmusik
- *Matthias Goerne ; Leif Ove Andsnes - Schumann: Liederkreis op. 2, Kerner-Lieder op. 35
- *Stephen Costello ; Constantine Orbelian - A Te, O Cara
2010s
- Karim Sulayman ; Jeannette Sorrell ; Erica Brenner ; Ian Dobie Daniel Shores Apollo's Fire - Songs of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi
- Nominees:
- *Anthony Roth Costanzo ; Jonathan Cohen - Arc
- *Philippe Jaroussky ; Artaserse - The Händel Album
- *Sabine Devieilhe ; Francois-Xavier Roth - Mirages
- *Randall Scarlata ; Gilbert Kalish - Schubert: Winterreise
- Barbara Hannigan - Crazy Girl Crazy - Music by Gershwin, Berg & Berio
- Nominees:
- *Philippe Jaroussky ; Petra Müllejans - Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas
- *Nicholas Phan ; Myra Huang - Gods & Monsters
- *Joyce DiDonato ; Maxim Emelyanychev - In War & Peace - Harmony Through Music
- *Dmitri Hvorostovsky ; Constantine Orbelian - Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift
- *Dorothea Röschmann, Mitsuko Uchida for Schuman & Berg
Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano for Shakespeare Songs
- *Joyce DiDonato, Antonio Pappano for
- Anne Sofie von Otter for
- Philippe Jaroussky for
- Dawn Upshaw for
- Joyce DiDonato for
- Renee Fleming for
- Natalie Dessay for
- Joyce DiDonato for
Grieg/Thommesen: Veslemoy Synsk
- Cecilia Bartoli for
Ombre de Mon Amant – French Baroque Arias
- Renee Fleming for
- Anne Sofie von Otter for
2000s
Grammy Awards of 2009- Hila Plitmann, John Corigliano, Tim Handley & Tom Lazarus, John Corigliano & Tim Handley for Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan
- Cecilia Bartoli for Maria
- Isabel Bayrakdarian for Gomidas Songs
- Sanford Sylvan for Charles Fussell: Wilde
- Anne Sofie von Otter for Terezín: Theresienstadt
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, John Newton & Mark Donahue, Dirk Sobotka for Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
- Sarah Connolly for Sea Pictures
- Renée Fleming for Homage: The Age of the Diva
- Anna Netrebko for Russian Album
- Rolando Villazón for Gitano: Zarzuela Arias
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson for Rilke Songs
- Ian Bostridge for Britten: Song Cycles
- Bernarda Fink and Marcos Fink for Canciones Argentinas
- Patrick Mason for Songs of Amy Beach
- Thomas Quasthoff for Consider, My Soul
- Thomas Quasthoff, Jürgen Bulgrin & Rainer Maillard, Christopher Alder for Bach: Cantatas
- Cecilia Bartoli for Opera Proibita
- Natalie Dessay for Strauss: Amor
- Carole Farley for Bolcom: Songs
- Rolando Villazón for Gounod -- Massenet: Arias
- Susan Graham for Ives: Songs
- Angela Maria Blasi and Stella Doufexis for Marx: Orchestral Songs
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson for Handel: Arias
- Karita Mattila for Grieg and Sibelius Songs
- Thomas Quasthoff for A Romantic Songbook
- Thomas Quasthoff & Anne Sofie von Otter, Jürgen Bulgrin & Oliver Rogalla Von Heyden, Christopher Alder for Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra
- Barbara Bonney for Im Chambre Separee - The Operetta Album
- Ian Bostridge, David Daniels, and Christopher Maltman for Britten: The Canticles
- Montserrat Caballé for Songs of the Spanish Renaissance, Vol. 1
- Frederica von Stade for Argento: Casa Guidi
- Renée Fleming, Jonathan Stokes, Neil Hutchinson & Tom Lazarus, Erik Smith for Bel Canto
- Vivica Genaux for Arias for Farinelli
- Susan Narucki for Carter: Tempo E Tempi
- Christine Schäfer for Boulez: Pli Selon Pli
- Anne Sofie von Otter for Chaminade: Melodies - Mots D'Amour
- Cecilia Bartoli, Jonathan Stokes, Christopher Raeburn for Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias
- Barbara Bonney for Fairest Isle
- Ian Bostridge for Henze: Six Songs From The Arabian; Three Auden Songs
- Thomas Quasthoff for Schubert: Schwanengesang/Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge
- Anne Sofie von Otter for Beethoven/Meyerbeer/Spohr: Lieder - Mélodies
- Cecilia Bartoli, Jonathan Stokes, Christopher Raeburn for The Vivaldi Album
- María Bayo for Handel: Opera Arias & Cantatas
- Matthias Goerne for Bach: Cantatas BWV 82, 158 & 56
- Thomas Quasthoff for Brahms/Liszt: Lieder
- Anne Sofie von Otter for Folksongs
- Anne Sofie von Otter & Thomas Quasthoff for Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- David Daniels for Handel: Operatic Arias
- Matthias Goerne for Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook
- Ben Heppner for German Romantic Opera
- Thomas Quasthoff for Schubert: Winterreise
1990s
- Renée Fleming, Jeffrey Tate & the English Chamber Orchestra for The Beautiful Voice
- Matthias Goerne for Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48; Liederkreis, Op. 24
- Håkan Hagegård for Hagegard Sings Brahms, Sibelius, Stenhammar
- Jennifer Larmore for Amore Per Rossini
- Bryn Terfel for Handel Arias
- Cecilia Bartoli for An Italian Songbook
- Omar Ebrahim, Rosemary Hardy, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Rose Taylor for Ligeti: Vocal Works
- Renee Fleming for Signatures - Great Opera Scenes
- Vesselina Kasarova for Mozart: Arias
- Anne Sofie von Otter for La Bonne Chanson - Faure Chamber Songs
- Bryn Terfel, James Levine & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Opera Arias - Works of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin
- Renee Fleming for Visions of Love - A Collection of Mozart Arias
- Lorraine Hunt for Phaedra from Britten: The Rescue of Penelope; Phaedra
- Jennifer Larmore for Where Shall I Fly - Handel & Mozart Arias
- Sanford Sylvan for Faure: L'Horizon Chimerique
- Anne Sofie von Otter for Wings in the Night - Swedish Songs
- Sylvia McNair, Christopher Hogwood & the Academy of Ancient Music for The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell
- Roberto Alagna for Roberto Alagna - Operatic Arias
- Wolfgang Holzmair for Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis, Op. 24; Heine Lieder
- Sergei Leiferkus for Mussorgsky Songs
- Bryn Terfel for The Vagabond
Nominees
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky for Songs and Dances of Death
- Peter Schreier for Mendelssohn: Lieder
- Bryn Terfel for An Die Musik - Favorite Schubert Songs
- Anne Sofie von Otter for Love's Twilight - Late Romantic Songs by Berg, Korngold, R. Strauss
- Arleen Auger for The Art of Arleen Auger
- Gabriela Beňačková for Dvořák, Janáček, Martinu: Lieder
- Christa Ludwig for Farewell to Salzburg
- Sylvia McNair for Exsultate Jubilate
- Anne Sofie von Otter for Grieg: Lieder
- Grammy Awards of 1993
- *Kathleen Battle & Margo Garrett for Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall
- Arleen Auger for Wolf: Songs to the Poetry of Goethe and Morike
- Cecilia Bartoli for Cecilia Bartoli: Rossini Heroines
- Thomas Hampson for Delius: Sea Drift
- Marilyn Horne for Marilyn Horne: Rossini Recital
- Dawn Upshaw for The Girl With Orange Lips
- Jan DeGaetani for Jan DeGaetani in Concert, Vol. 2
- Thomas Hampson for Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer; 5 Ruckert Lieder
- 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
- José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Zubin Mehta & the Orchestra Del Maggio Musicale for 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
- Sanford Sylvan for Adams: The Wound-Dresser
- Dawn Upshaw, David Zinman & the Orchestra of St. Luke's for Knoxville - Summer of 1915
- Kathleen Battle for Schubert: Lieder
- Kathleen Battle and Plácido Domingo for Live in Tokyo 1988
- Plácido Domingo for Puccini: The Unknown Puccini
- William Sharp for William Sharp
1980s
- Luciano Pavarotti, Emerson Buckley & the Symphony Orchestra of Amelia Romangna for Luciano Pavarotti in Concert
- Arleen Auger for Love Songs
- Jan DeGaetani for Songs of America
- Christa Ludwig for Schubert: Winterreise
- Jessye Norman for Handel, Schubert, Schumann: Lieder
- Kathleen Battle for Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital
- Elly Ameling for Soire Francaise
- 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
- Kathleen Battle, André Previn & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart
- Elly Ameling for Soire Francaise
- 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
- John Aler, Robert Shaw & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Requiem
- Elly Ameling for Belioz: Les Nuits d'Ete
- Plácido Domingo, Pilar Lorengar for the arias from Zarzuela Arias and Duets
- Marilyn Horne for Marilyn Horne Sings
- Kiri Te Kanawa for Canteloube: Chants 'Auvergne, Vol. 2; Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
- Frederica von Stade for Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été; Debussy: La Damoiselle élue
- Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam, Pierre Boulez, the BBC Symphony Orchestra & the Ensemble Intercontemporain for Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel
- Janet Baker for Mahler's Songs of Youth
- Kathleen Battle, Håkan Hagegård for Brahms: A German Requiem
- Jessye Norman for Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor
- Kiri Te Kanawa for Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major, 4th Movement
- Marilyn Horne, Leontyne Price, James Levine & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for The Brahms Edition: Lieder
- Jessye Norman for The Brahms Edition: Lieder
- Kiri Te Kanawa for Mozart Opera Arias
- Frederica von Stade for Faure: 18 Songs
- Leontyne Price, Zubin Mehta & the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for Verdi: Arias
- 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
- Frederica von Stade for Frederica von Stade Live!
- Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge & the New York City Opera Orchestra for Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti
- Elly Ameling for Think on Me
- Barbara Hendricks for Del Tredici: Final Alice
- Teresa Stratas for The Unknown Kurt Weill
- Frederica von Stade for Ravel: Sheherazade
- Leontyne Price, Henry Lewis & the Philharmonia Orchestra for Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten
- Elly Ameling for Mozart: Songs
- Judith Blegen for Berg: Lulu Suite
- Jessye Norman for Berg: Der Wein, Concert Aria
- Kiri Te Kanawa for R. Strauss: 4 Last Songs and Orchestral Songs
- Frederica von Stade for Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer and Ruckert Songs
- Luciano Pavarotti & the Bologna Orchestra for O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs
- Elly Ameling for Mozart: Lieder
- Jan DeGaetani for Ravel: Chansons Madecasses
- Victoria de los Ángeles for Victoria de los Angeles in Concert
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Schubert: Lieder
- Yevgeny Nesterenko for Mussorgsky: Songs
- Leontyne Price for Lieder by Schubert and Richard Strauss
- Frederica von Stade for Frederica von Stade Song Recital
1970s
- Luciano Pavarotti for Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center
- Teresa Berganza for Favorite Zarzuela Arias
- Maria Callas for The Legend: The Unreleased Recordings
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Wagner: Arias
- Marilyn Horne for Ravel: Sheherazade
- Christa Ludwig for Brahms: Spring Rhapsody
- Galina Vishnevskaya for Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
- Neville Marriner, Janet Baker & the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for Bach: Arias
- Elly Ameling for Schubert on Stage
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Ives: Songs
- Donald Gramm for But Yesterday Is Not Today
- Luciano Pavarotti for O Holy Night
- Elisabeth Söderström for Rachmaninov: Songs, Vol. 2
- Gérard Souzay for Faure: Songs
- Galina Vishnevskaya for Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14
- Frederica von Stade for Rossini/Mozart: Opera Arias
- Beverly Sills for Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert
- Janet Baker, James King for Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Carlo Bergonzi for Carlo Bergonzi Sings Verdi
- Jan DeGaetani for Ives: Songs
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Wolfe: Morike Lieder
- Marni Nixon for 9 Early Songs; The Cabaret Songs of Arnold Schoenberg
- Margaret Price for Mozart: Arias
- Barbra Streisand for Classical Barbra
- Janet Baker for Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
- Leontyne Price for Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss
- Edward Downes, Leontyne Price & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Puccini: Heroines
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Brahms: Die Schone Magelone
- Leontyne Price for Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Schubert: Lieder
- Thomas Schippers, Leontyne Price & the New Philharmonia for Barber: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915
1960s
- Carlo Felice Cillario, Montserrat Caballé & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Rossini: Rarities
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Leontyne Price, & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for Prima Donna, Volume 2
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Leontyne Price & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for Prima Donna
- Erich Leinsdorf, Leontyne Price & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Strauss: Salome /The Egyptian Helen
- Fritz Reiner, Leontyne Price & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Nuits d'Ete /Falla: El Amor Brujo
- Skitch Henderson, Leontyne Price & the RCA Orchestra for Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
- Leonard Bernstein, Eileen Farrell & the New York Philharmonic for Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Joan Sutherland & the Royal Opera House Orchestra for The Art of the Prima Donna
- Leontyne Price for A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital
- Jussi Björling for Bjoerling in Opera
1950s
- Renata Tebaldi for Operatic Recital