Best Classical Vocal Performance

40th Annual Grammy Awards • 1998

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1996 – September 30, 1997

Cecilia Bartoli won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance with "An Italian Songbook - Works Of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini"

Winners & Nominees 1998

Winner
Nominees

  • An Italian Songbook - Works Of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini

    Cecilia Bartoli

  • La Bonne Chanson - Faure Chamber Songs (Works Of Ravel, Chausson, Etc.) (Album)

    Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo soprano

  • Ligeti: Vocal Works (Nonsense Madrigals; Aventures; Der Sommer, Etc.) (Album)

    Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Rosemary Hardy, sopranos; Rose Taylor, contralto; Omar Ebrahim, baritone

  • Mozart: Arias (Non So Piu, Cosa Son; Vedrai Carino; In Quali Eccessi, O Numi, Etc.) (Album)

    Vesselina Kasarova, mezzo soprano

  • Signatures - Great Opera Scenes (Porgi, Amor; Dove Sono; O Silver Moon, Etc.) (Album)

    Renee Fleming, soprano

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
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
1991 Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert All Nominees
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