Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical

12th Annual Grammy Awards • 1970

Honoring recordings released between November 2, 1968 – November 1, 1969

Leontyne Price, soprano won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical with "Barber: Two Scenes From Antony And Cleopatra/Knoxville: Summer Of 1915"

Winners & Nominees 1970

Winner
Nominees

  • Barber: Two Scenes From Antony And Cleopatra/Knoxville: Summer Of 1915

    Leontyne Price, soprano

  • A Most Unusual Song Recital (Beethoven, Rossini, Brahms, Reger, R. Strauss) (Album)

    Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry

  • Bach And Handel Arias (Excerpts From Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew Passion, Messiah, Rodelinda) (Album)

    Marilyn Horne, mezzo

  • Berg: Attenberg Lieder (Album)

    Halina Lukomska, soprano

  • Brahms: Four Serious Songs (Track)

    Sherrill Milnes, baritone

  • Britten: Holy Sonnets Of Donne, Songs And Proverbs Of Blake (Album)

    Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  • Scenes And Arias From French Opera (Album)

    Beverly Sills, soprano

  • Strauss (Richard): Nineteen Early Songs (Album)

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1970 Leontyne Price, soprano Barber: Two Scenes From Antony And Cleopatra/Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 All Nominees