- From 1959 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1964 the award was known as
- In 1961 it was awarded as
- In 1965 it was awarded as
- In 1966, 1968 and from 1971 to 1990 it was awarded as
- In 1967 it was awarded as
- In 1969 it was awarded as
- In 1970 it was awarded as
- In 1991 it was awarded as
- In 1992 it was awarded as
- From 1993 to the present it has returned to being awarded as
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
- Grammy Awards Of 2005
- --- Susan Graham for '' Ives : Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; the Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc.)''
- Grammy Awards Of 2004
- --- conducted by Claudio Abbado
- Grammy Awards Of 2003
- --- Erik Smith (producer), Jonathan Stokes, Neil Hutchinson, Tom Lazarus (engineers), Patrick Summers (conductor), Renée Fleming & Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for ''Bel Canto ( Bellini , Donizetti , Rossini , etc.)''
- Grammy Awards Of 2002
- --- Christopher Raeburn (producer), Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Bernhard Forck (conductor), Cecilia Bartoli & the Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin for ''Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias (Tremo Gra' Fubbi Miei; Die Questa Cetra In Seno, etc.)''
- Grammy Awards Of 2001
- --- Christopher Raeburn (producer), Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Cecilia Bartoli & Il Giardino Armonico for ''The Vivaldi Album (Dell'aura al sussurrar; Alma oppressa, Etc.)''
- Grammy Awards Of 2000
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- Grammy Awards Of 1999
- --- Jeffrey Tate (conductor), Renee Fleming & the English Chamber Orchestra for ''The Beautiful Voice (Works of Charpentier , Gounod etc.)''
- Grammy Awards Of 1998
- --- Cecilia Bartoli for ''An Italian Songbook (Works of Bellini , Donizetti , Rossini )''
- Grammy Awards Of 1997
- --- James Levine (conductor), Bryn Terfel & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for ''Opera Arias - Works of Mozart , Wagner , Borodin ''
- Grammy Awards Of 1996
- --- Christopher Hogwood (conductor), Sylvia McNair & the Academy Of Ancient Music for ''The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell ''
- Grammy Awards Of 1995
- --- Cecilia Bartoli for ''The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs by Beethoven , Schubert , Mozart ''
- Grammy Awards Of 1994
- --- Arleen Auger for ''The Art of Arleen Auger (Works of Larsen , Purcell ,, Schumann , Mozart )''
- Grammy Awards Of 1993
- --- Kathleen Battle & Margo Garrett for ''Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall ( Handel , Mozart , Liszt , Strauss , etc.) ''
- Grammy Awards Of 1992
- --- Dawn Upshaw for ''The Girl With Orange Lips ( Falla , Ravel , etc.)''
- Grammy Awards Of 1991
- --- Zubin Mehta (conductor), José Carreras , Plácido Domingo , Luciano Pavarotti , & the Orchestra Del Maggio Musicale for ''Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert ''
- Grammy Awards Of 1990
- --- David Zinman (conductor), Dawn Upshaw & the Orchestra Of St. Luke's for ''Knoxville - Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber , Menotti , Harbison , Stravinsky )''
- Grammy Awards Of 1989
- --- Emerson Buckley (conductor), Luciano Pavarotti & the Symphony Orchestra Of Amelia Romangna for ''Luciano Pavarotti in Concert''
- Grammy Awards Of 1988
- --- Kathleen Battle for ''Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital''
- Grammy Awards Of 1987
- --- Andre Previn (conductor), Kathleen Battle & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for ''Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart ''
- Grammy Awards Of 1986
- --- Robert Shaw (conductor), John Aler & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for '' Berlioz : Requiem''
- Grammy Awards Of 1985
- --- Pierre Boulez (conductor), Heather Harper , Jessye Norman & Jose Van Dam , the BBC Symphony Orchestra & the Ensemble Intercontemporain for '' Ravel : Songs of Maurice Ravel''
- Grammy Awards Of 1984
- --- James Levine (conductor), Marilyn Horne , Leontyne Price & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for ''Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met''
- Grammy Awards Of 1983
- --- Zubin Mehta (conductor), Leontyne Price & the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for '' Verdi : Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi)''
- Grammy Awards Of 1982
- --- Richard Bonynge (conductor), Marilyn Horne , Luciano Pavarotti , Joan Sutherland & the New York City Opera Orchestra for ''Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti''
- Grammy Awards Of 1981
- --- Henry Lewis (conductor), Leontyne Price & the Philharmonia Orchestra for ''Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten''
- Grammy Awards Of 1980
- --- Luciano Pavarotti & the Bologna Orchestra for ''O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs''
- Grammy Awards Of 1969
- --- Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor), Montserrat Caballe & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra & Chorus for '' Rossini : Rarities''
- Grammy Awards Of 1968
- --- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor), Leontyne Price , & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for ''Prima Donna, Volume 2''
- Grammy Awards Of 1967
- --- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor), Leontyne Price & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for ''Prima Donna (Works of Barber , Purcell , etc.)''
- Grammy Awards Of 1966
- --- (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)''
- Grammy Awards Of 1965
- ---: El Amor Brujo''
- Grammy Awards Of 1964
- --- Skitch Henderson (conductor), Leontyne Price & the RCA Orchestra for ''Great Scenes From Gershwin 's Porgy And Bess ''
- Grammy Awards Of 1963
- --- Leonard Bernstein (conductor), Eileen Farrell & the New York Philharmonic for ''Gotterdamerung - Brunnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs''
- Grammy Awards Of 1962
- --- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor), Joan Sutherland & the Royal Opera House Orchestra for ''The Art of the Prima Donna''
- Grammy Awards Of 1961
- --- Leontyne Price for ''A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital''
- Grammy Awards Of 1960
- --- Jussi Bjoerling for ''Bjoerling in Opera''
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