Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
31st Annual Grammy Awards • 1989
Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1987 – September 30, 1988
Luciano Pavarotti won the 1989 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance with "Luciano Pavarotti In Concert"
Winners & Nominees 1989
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Luciano Pavarotti In Concert
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Handel/Schubert/Schumann: Lieder (Jessye Norman - Live At Hohenems) (Album)
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Love Songs (Copland, R. Strauss, Poulenc, Mahler, Schumann, Gounod, Schubert, Etc.) (Album)
Arleen Auger, soprano
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Schubert: Winterreise (Album)
Christa Ludwig, soprano
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Songs Of America (Stephen Foster, Elliott Carter, Ruth Crawford, Milton Babbitt, George Crumb, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Irving Fine, Sergius Kagen) (Album)
Jan De Gaetani
Previous Years
| Year | Winner | Title | |
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| 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 |