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
- 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.
Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
| 1959 | Renata Tebaldi | Operatic Recital | ||
| 1960 | Jussi Björling | Bjoerling in Opera | ||
| 1961 | Leontyne Price | A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital | ||
| 1962 | Joan Sutherland | The Art of the Prima Donna | ||
| 1963 | Eileen Farrell | Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs | ||
| 1964 | Leontyne Price | Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess | ||
| 1965 | Leontyne Price | Berlioz: Nuits d'Ete /Falla: El Amor Brujo | ||
| 1966 | Leontyne Price | Strauss: Salome /The Egyptian Helen | ||
| 1967 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna | ||
| 1968 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna, Volume 2 | ||
| 1969 | Montserrat Caballé | Rossini: Rarities | ||
| 1970 | Leontyne Price | Barber: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915 | ||
| 1971 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Schubert: Lieder | ||
| 1972 | Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann | ||
| 1973 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Brahms: Die Schone Magelone | ||
| 1974 | Leontyne Price | Puccini: Heroines | ||
| 1975 | Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss | ||
| 1976 | Janet Baker | Mahler: Kindertotenlieder | ||
| 1977 | Beverly Sills | Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert | ||
| 1978 | Janet Baker | Bach: Arias | ||
| 1979 | Luciano Pavarotti | Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center | ||
| 1980 | Luciano Pavarotti | O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs | ||
| 1981 | Leontyne Price | Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten | ||
| 1982 | Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland | Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti | ||
| 1983 | Leontyne Price | Verdi: Arias | ||
| 1984 | Marilyn Horne and Leontyne Price | Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met | ||
| 1985 | Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam | Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel | ||
| 1986 | John Aler | Berlioz: Requiem | ||
| 1987 | Kathleen Battle | Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart | ||
| 1988 | Kathleen Battle | Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital | ||
| 1989 | Luciano Pavarotti | Luciano Pavarotti in Concert | ||
| 1990 | Dawn Upshaw | Knoxville - Summer of 1915 | ||
| 1991 | José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti | Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert | ||
| 1992 | Dawn Upshaw | The Girl With Orange Lips | ||
| 1993 | Kathleen Battle & Margo Garrett | Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall | ||
| 1994 | Arleen Auger | The Art of Arleen Auger | ||
| 1995 | Cecilia Bartoli | The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart | ||
| 1996 | Sylvia McNair | The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell | ||
| 1997 | Bryn Terfel | Opera Arias - Works of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin | ||
| 1998 | Cecilia Bartoli | An Italian Songbook | ||
| 1999 | Renée Fleming | The Beautiful Voice | ||
| 2000 | Anne Sofie von Otter & Thomas Quasthoff | Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn | ||
| 2001 | Cecilia Bartoli, Jonathan Stokes, Christopher Raeburn | The Vivaldi Album | ||
| 2002 | Cecilia Bartoli, Jonathan Stokes, Christopher Raeburn | Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias | ||
| 2003 | Renée Fleming, Jonathan Stokes, Neil Hutchinson & Tom Lazarus, Erik Smith | Bel Canto | ||
| 2004 | Thomas Quasthoff & Anne Sofie von Otter, Jürgen Bulgrin & Oliver Rogalla Von Heyden, Christopher Alder | Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra | ||
| 2005 | Susan Graham | Ives: Songs | ||
| 2006 | Thomas Quasthoff, Jürgen Bulgrin & Rainer Maillard, Christopher Alder | Bach: Cantatas | ||
| 2007 | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson | Rilke Songs | ||
| 2008 | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, John Newton & Mark Donahue, Dirk Sobotka | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs | ||
| 2009 | Hila Plitmann, John Corigliano, Tim Handley & Tom Lazarus, John Corigliano & Tim Handley | Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan | ||
| 2010 | Renee Fleming | Verismo | ||
| 2011 | Cecilia Bartoli | Sacrificium | ||
| 2012 | Joyce DiDonato | Diva Divo | ||
| 2013 | Renee Fleming | Poèmes | ||
| 2014 | Dawn Upshaw | Winter Morning Walks | ||
| 2015 | Anne Sofie von Otter | Douce France | ||
| 2016 | Joyce DiDonato, Antonio Pappano | Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall | ||
| 2017 | Dorothea Röschmann, Mitsuko Uchida | Schumann & Berg | ||
| 2017 | Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano | Shakespeare Songs | ||
| 2018 | Barbara Hannigan | Crazy Girl Crazy - Music by Gershwin, Berg & Berio | ||
| 2019 | Karim Sulayman ; Apollo's Fire | Songs of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi | ||
| 2020 | Joyce DiDonato ; Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry | Songplay | ||
| 2021 | Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton ; James Blachly | Smyth: The Prison | ||
| 2022 | Sangeeta Kaur & Hilla Plitmann ; Danae Xanthe Vlasse | Mythologies | ||
| 2023 | Renée Fleming & Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene | ||
| 2024 | Julia Bullock ; Christian Reif | Walking in the Dark |
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| 2025 | Karen Slack ; Michelle Cann | Beyond the Years - Unpublished Songs of Florence Price | ||
| 2026 | Winner TBA on 1 February 2026 |