Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (With Or Without Orchestra)

1st Annual Grammy Awards • 1959

Honoring recordings released between January 1, 1958 – December 31, 1958

Renata Tebaldi, soprano won the 1959 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (With Or Without Orchestra) with "Operatic Recital"

Winners & Nominees 1959

Winner
Nominees

  • Operatic Recital

    Renata Tebaldi, soprano

  • Cherubini: Medea (Album)

    Maria Callas

  • Duets For Spanish Guitar (Album)

    Salli Terri, soprano

  • Eileen Farrell As Medea (Album)

    Eileen Farrell

  • Wagner: Prelude And Liebestod - Tristan And Isolde, Brunnhilde's Immolation, Die Gotterdamerung (Album)

    Eileen Farrell

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
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
1960 Jussi Bjoerling, tenor Bjoerling In Opera All Nominees
1959 Renata Tebaldi, soprano Operatic Recital All Nominees