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Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

2008 • 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2006 and Aug 30, 2007

2008 Winner is Lorraine Hunt Lieberson with "Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs"

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

Nominees 2008

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2026 Amanda Forsythe, Robert Mealy, Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs Telemann: Ino - Opera Arias For Soprano All Nominees
2025 Karen Slack, Michelle Cann Beyond The Years - Unpublished Songs Of Florence Price All Nominees
2024 Julia Bullock, Christian Reif Walking In The Dark All Nominees
2023 Renee Fleming, Yannick Nézet-Séguin Voice Of Nature - The Anthropocene All Nominees
2022 Sangeeta Kaur, Hila Plitmann, Danaë Xanthe Vlasse Mythologies All Nominees
2021 Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton Smyth: The Prison All Nominees
2020 Joyce DiDonato, Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter, Craig Terry Songplay All Nominees
2019 Karim Sulayman, Jeannette Sorrell, Apollo's Fire Songs Of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi All Nominees
2018 Barbara Hannigan Crazy Girl Crazy All Nominees
2017 Dorothea Röschmann Schumann & Berg All Nominees
2017 Ian Bostridge Shakespeare Songs All Nominees
2016 Joyce DiDonato Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall All Nominees
2015 Anne Sofie Von Otter Douce France All Nominees
2014 Dawn Upshaw Winter Morning Walks All Nominees
2013 Renee Fleming Poèmes All Nominees
2012 Joyce DiDonato Diva Divo All Nominees
2011 Cecilia Bartoli Sacrificium All Nominees
2010 Renee Fleming Verismo Arias All Nominees
2009 Hila Plitmann Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan All Nominees
2008 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs All Nominees
2007 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Rilke Songs All Nominees
2006 Thomas Quasthoff Bach: Cantatas All Nominees
2005 Susan Graham Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; The Housatonic At Stockbridge, Etc.) All Nominees
2004 Thomas Quasthoff, Anne Sofie von Otter Schubert: Lieder With Orchestra All Nominees
2003 Renée Fleming Bel Canto - Bellini, Donizetti & Rossini All Nominees
2002 Cecilia Bartoli Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias: Tremo Fra' Dubbi Miei; Di Questa Cetra In Seno All Nominees
2001 Cecilia Bartoli The Vivaldi Album - Dell'aura al sussurrar, Alma oppressa All Nominees
2000 Anne Sofie von Otter & Thomas Quasthoff Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn All Nominees
1999 Renee Fleming The Beautiful Voice - Works Of Charpentier, Gounod, Massenet & Flotow All Nominees
1998 Cecilia Bartoli An Italian Songbook - Works Of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini All Nominees
1997 Bryn Terfel Opera Arias - Works Of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin All Nominees
1996 Sylvia McNair The Echoing Air - The Music Of Henry Purcell All Nominees
1995 Cecilia Bartoli The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs By Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart All Nominees
1994 Arleen Auger The Art Of Arleen Auger (Works Of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart) All Nominees
1993 Kathleen Battle Kathleen Battle At Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, etc.) All Nominees
1992 Dawn Upshaw The Girl With Orange Lips (Falla, Ravel, etc.) All Nominees
1991 Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert All Nominees
1990 Dawn Upshaw Knoxville - Summer Of 1915 (Music Of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky) All Nominees
1989 Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti In Concert All Nominees
1988 Kathleen Battle Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital All Nominees
1987 Kathleen Battle Mozart: Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart All Nominees
1986 John Aler, tenor Berlioz: Requiem All Nominees
1985 Jose Van Dam, Jessye Norman & Heather Harper Ravel: Songs Of Maurice Ravel All Nominees
1984 Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne In Concert At The Met All Nominees
1983 Leontyne Price Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi) All Nominees
1982 Marilyn Horne, Joan Sutherland & Luciano Pavarotti Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti All Nominees
1981 Leontyne Price, soprano Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel To Britten All Nominees
1980 Luciano Pavarotti O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs All Nominees
1979 Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center All Nominees
1978 Janet Baker Bach: Arias All Nominees
1977 Beverly Sills, soprano Herbert: Music Of Victor Herbert All Nominees
1976 Janet Baker Mahler: Kindertotenlieder All Nominees
1975 Leontyne Price Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss All Nominees
1974 Leontyne Price, soprano Puccini: Heroines All Nominees
1973 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone Brahms: Die Schone Magelone All Nominees
1972 Leontyne Price Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann All Nominees
1971 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone Schubert: Lieder All Nominees
1970 Leontyne Price, soprano Barber: Two Scenes From Antony And Cleopatra/Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 All Nominees
1969 Montserrat Caballe, soprano Rossini: Rarities All Nominees
1968 Leontyne Price, soprano Prima Donna, Volume 2 All Nominees
1967 Leontyne Price, soprano Prima Donna (Works Of Barber, Purcell, Etc.) All Nominees
1966 Leontyne Price, soprano Strauss: Salome (Dance Of The Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene) All Nominees
1965 Leontyne Price, soprano Berlioz: Nuits D'Ete (Song Cycle)/Falla: El Amor Brujo All Nominees
1964 Leontyne Price, soprano Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy And Bess All Nominees
1963 Eileen Farrell, soprano Wagner: Gotterdamerung - Brunnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs All Nominees
1962 Joan Sutherland, soprano The Art Of The Prima Donna All Nominees
1961 Leontyne Price A Program Of Song - Leontyne Price Recital All Nominees
1960 Jussi Bjoerling, tenor Bjoerling In Opera All Nominees
1959 Renata Tebaldi, soprano Operatic Recital All Nominees

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