Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

21st Annual Grammy Awards • 1979

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1977 – September 30, 1978

Luciano Pavarotti won the 1979 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance with "Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center"

Winners & Nominees 1979

Winner

Nominees

Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center

Luciano Pavarotti
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody (Album)

Christa Ludwig
Maria Callas/The Legend, The Unreleased Recordings (Album)

Maria Callas
Mussorgsky: Songs And Dances (Album)

Galina Vichnievskaia
Ravel: Sheherazade (Album)

Marilyn Horne, mezzo
Teresa Berganza - Favorite Zarzuela Arias (Album)

Teresa Berganza
Wagner: Arias (Album)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Previous Years

Year	Winner	Title
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
1968	Leontyne Price, soprano	Prima Donna, Volume 2	All Nominees
1966	Leontyne Price, soprano	Strauss: Salome (Dance Of The Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)	All Nominees