Il Grammy Award al miglior album vocale solista classico (Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album) è una delle categorie dei Grammy Award previste per la musica classica. Il premio è stato assegnato la prima volta durante la prima edizione della cerimonia nel 1959.
Prima del 2015, era assegnato come Grammy Award alla miglior interpretazione vocale classica o Grammy Award alla miglior interpretazione vocale classica solista.
Storia del premio Al premio è stato cambiato diverse volte il nome: 1959-1960: Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra) 1961: Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist 1962-1964: Best Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra) 1965: Best Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra) 1966: Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance 1967: Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra) 1968: Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance 1969: Best Vocal Soloist Performance 1970: Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical 1971-1990: Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance 1991: Best Classical Vocal Performance 1992: Best Classical Vocal Soloist 1993-2011: Best Classical Vocal Performance 2012-2014: Best Classical Vocal Solo 2015- ad oggi: Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Fino al 2015 compreso, il Grammy è stato assegnato a uno o più solisti vocali. Non erano ammessi al premio musicisti accompagnatori, orchestre e/o direttori.
Dal 2015 il premio è assegnato solo agli album; negli anni precedenti anche i singoli brani erano idonei per il premio.
Dal 2016 sono stati inclusi anche gli "artistai collaborativi" (come accompagnatori solisti, direttori d'orchestra o gruppi da camera). L'accompagnamento di grandi orchestre o di più strumentisti, tuttavia, rimane inammissibile. Anche il produttore (i) e l'ingegnere (i) di oltre il 50% del tempo di riproduzione della registrazione ricevono un premio.
Vincitori e candidati Miglior interpretazione vocale classica (1959-2014) Anni 1950
1959 Renata Tebaldi - Operatic Recital Maria Callas - Cherubini: Medea Salli Terri - Duets for Spanish Guitar Eileen Farrell - Eileen Farrell as Medea Eileen Farrell - Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde); Brünnhilde's Immolation (Götterdämmerung)
Anni 1960
1960 Jussi Björling - Bjoerling in Opera Jaime Laredo - Presenting Jaime Laredo Leonard Pennario - Pennario Plays Nathan Milstein - Four Italian Sonatas Laurindo Almeida - Danzas Glenn Gould - Berg: Sonata For Piano, Op.1; Krenek: Sonata # 3, Op. 92 # 4; Schoenberg Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 1961 Leontyne Price - A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital Eileen Farrell - Arias in Great Tradition Peter Pears - Britten: Nocturne Salli Terri - Conversations with the Guitar Joan Sutherland - Handel: Arias 1962 Joan Sutherland - The Art of the Prima Donna Bach Aria Group Orchestra - Bach: Cantasas Nos. 58 and 202 Leontyne Price e la Rome Opera House Orchestra - Operatic Arias Victoria de los Ángeles - The Fabulous Victoria de los Angeles Conant, Russo, Orenstein - Trimble: Four Fragments from The Canterbury Tales 1963 Eileen Farrell - Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs Adele Addison - Foss: Time Cycle Birgit Nilsson - R. Strauss: Salome Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin Victoria de los Ángeles - Spanish Songs of the 20th Century 1964 Leontyne Price - Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess Anna Moffo - A Verdi Collaboration Netania Davrath - Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne, Vol. 2 Joan Sutherland - Command Performance Maureen Forrester - Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn 1965 Leontyne Price - Berlioz: Nuits d'Ete (Song Cycle)/Falla: El Amor Brujo Régine Crespin - Berlioz: Nuits d' Ete Peter Pears - Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Maria Callas - Callas Sings Verdi Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schubert: Die Winterreise Joan Sutherland - The Age of Bel Canto: Operatic Scenes Boris Christoff - Tsars and Kings (Opera Arias) 1966 Leontyne Price - Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene) Anna Moffo - Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne; Rachmaninov: Vocalise; Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 Shirley Verrett - Falla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs Mirella Freni - Mirella Freni, Operatic Arias Galina Pavlovna Višnevskaja - Mussorgsky: Songs 1967 Leontyne Price - Prima Donna (Works of Barber, Purcell, etc.) Judith Raskin - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major Janet Baker - Mahler: The Youth's Magic Horn (Das Knaben Wunderhorn) Montserrat Caballé - Presenting Montserrat Caballe (Bellini and Donizetti arias) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schumann: Dichterliebe 1968 Leontyne Price - Prima Donna, Volume 2 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - An Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Songbook Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Beethoven: Songs Adele Addison - Copland: 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson Fritz Wunderlich - Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin Peter Pears - Schubert: Die Winterreise 1969 Montserrat Caballé - Rossini: Rarities Janet Baker - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder and Songs of a Wayfarer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schumann: Songs Victoria de los Ángeles - Songs of Andalucia Gérard Souzay - Songs of Poulenc Shirley Verrett - Verrett in Opera Anni 1970
1970 Leontyne Price - Barber: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915 Christa Ludwig e Walter Berry - A Most Unusual Song Recital (Beethoven, Rossini, Brahms, Reger, R. Strauss) Marilyn Horne - Bach and Handel Arias (Excerpts From Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew Passion, Messiah, Rodelina) Halina Lukomska - Berg: Altenberg Lieder Sherrill Milnes - Brahms: 4 Serious Songs Peter Pears e Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Britten: Holy Sonnets of Donne; Songs and Proverbs of Blake Elisabeth Schwarzkopf e Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Richard Strauss: Early Songs Beverly Sills - Scenes And Arias from French Opera 1971 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schubert: Lieder Leontyne Price - Prima Donna, Vol. 3 Janet Baker - Death of Cleopatra final scenes, Berlioz: Les Troyens Christa Ludwig e Walter Berry - Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Marilyn Horne - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder 1972 Leontyne Price - Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann Janet Baker e Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - An Evening of Duets Cathy Berberian - Berio: Epifanie Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Haydn and Mozart Arias Evelyn Lear e Thomas Stewart - Ives: American Scenes/American Poets 1973 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Brahms: Die Schone Magelone Leontyne Price - 5 Great Operatic Scenes (Verdi: La Traviata, Don Carlo; Tchaikovsky: Onegin; Strauss: Ariadne, etc.) Janet Baker - Elgar: Sea Pictures Jan DeGaetani - Songs by Stephen Foster Anna Moffo - Songs of Debussy Birgit Nilsson - Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder 1974 Leontyne Price - Puccini: Heroines Heather Harper - Berg: 7 Early Songs Cathy Berberian - Berio: Recital 1 (For Cathy) Plácido Domingo - La Voce d'Oro Yvonne Minton e René Kollo - Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde 1975 Leontyne Price - Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss Sherrill Milnes - Amazing Grace (Agnus Dei, Bless the Lord, O My Soul, etc.) Martina Arroyo - There's a Meeting Here Tonight Elly Ameling - Schubert: Goethe-Lieder Marilyn Horne - French and Spanish Songs Julius Eastman - Davies: 8 Songs for a Mad King Jan DeGaetani - Crumb: Night of the Four Moons 1976 Janet Baker - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Joan Morris - After the Ball (A Treasury of Turn-of-the-Century Popular Songs) Victoria de los Ángeles - Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne, Album 2 Cleo Laine - Cleo Laine Sings Pierrot Lunaire and Songs by Ives Elly Ameling - Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 1977 Beverly Sills - Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert Janet Baker e James King - Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Carlo Bergonzi - Carlo Bergonzi Sings Verdi Jan DeGaetani - Ives: Songs Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Wolfe: Morike Lieder Marni Nixon - 9 Early Songs; The Cabaret Songs of Arnold Schoenberg Margaret Price - Mozart: Arias (La Clemenza di Tito, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Nozze di Figaro etc) Barbra Streisand - Classical Barbra 1978 Janet Baker - Bach: Arias Elly Ameling - Schubert on Stage Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Ives: Songs Donald Gramm - But Yesterday Is Not Today (songs by Barber, Bowles, Copland, Chanler, etc.) Luciano Pavarotti - O Holy Night (O Holy Night, Sanctus, Ave Maria, etc) Elisabeth Söderström - Rachmaninov: Songs, Vol. 2 Gérard Souzay - Faure: Songs Galina Pavlovna Višnevskaja - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 Frederica von Stade - Rossini/Mozart: Opera Arias 1979 Luciano Pavarotti - Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center Teresa Berganza - Favorite Zarzuela Arias Maria Callas - The Legend: The Unreleased Recordings Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Wagner: Arias Marilyn Horne - Ravel: Sheherazade Christa Ludwig - Brahms: Spring Rhapsody Galina Pavlovna Višnevskaja - Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death Anni 1980
1980 Luciano Pavarotti - O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs Elly Ameling - Mozart: Lieder Jan DeGaetani - Ravel: Chansons Madecasses Victoria de los Ángeles - Victoria de los Angeles in Concert Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schubert: Lieder Yevgeny Nesterenko - Mussorgsky: Songs Leontyne Price - Lieder by Schubert and Richard Strauss Frederica von Stade - Frederica von Stade Song Recital 1981 Leontyne Price - Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten Elly Ameling - Mozart: Songs Judith Blegen - Berg: Lulu Suite Jessye Norman - Berg: Der Wein, Concert Aria Kiri Te Kanawa - R. Strauss: 4 Last Songs and Orchestral Songs Frederica von Stade - Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer and Ruckert Songs 1982 Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti e Joan Sutherland - Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti Elly Ameling - Think on Me Barbara Hendricks - Del Tredici: Final Alice Teresa Stratas - The Unknown Kurt Weill Frederica von Stade - Ravel: Sheherazade 1983 Leontyne Price - Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi) Elly Ameling - Faure: La Bonne Chanson; Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis and Ariettes Oubliees Jessye Norman - Berlioz: La Mort de Cleopatre Kiri Te Kanawa - Mozart: Concert Arias (Andromeda, Il Burbero di Buon Core, Artaserse, Idomeneo, Cerere Placata) Frederica von Stade - Frederica von Stade Live! 1984 Marilyn Horne e Leontyne Price - Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - The Brahms Edition: Lieder Jessye Norman - The Brahms Edition: Lieder Kiri Te Kanawa - Mozart Opera Arias Frederica von Stade - Faure: 18 Songs 1985 Heather Harper, Jessye Norman e José van Dam - Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel Janet Baker - Mahler's Songs of Youth Kathleen Battle ed Håkan Hagegård - Brahms: A German Requiem Jessye Norman - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection) Kiri Te Kanawa - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major, 4th Movement 1986 John Aler - Berlioz: Requiem Elly Ameling - Belioz: Les Nuits d'Ete Plácido Domingo e Pilar Lorengar - Zarzuela Arias and Duets Marilyn Horne - Marilyn Horne Sings (Offenbach, Cherubini, Saint-Saëns, etc.) Kiri Te Kanawa - Canteloube: Chants 'Auvergne, Vol. 2; Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 Frederica von Stade - Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été e Debussy: La Damoiselle élue 1987 Kathleen Battle - Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart Marilyn Horne - Beautiful Dreamer: The Great American Song Book Luciano Pavarotti - Passione Pavarotti (Favorite Neapolitan Love Songs) Teresa Stratas - Stratas Sings Weill Frederica von Stade - Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne Vol. II/Triptyque 1988