Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

Isabel Leonard, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Adès, Audrey Luna, Jay David Saks, Alan Oke

Honored for : Adès: The Tempest

Jay Hunter Morris, Deborah Voigt, Fabio Luisi, Hans-Peter König, James Levine, Jay David Saks, Bryn Terfel

Honored for : Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen

Alan Gilbert, Jay David Saks, Gerald Finley, Sasha Cooke, Thomas Glenn, Richard Paul Fink, Meredith Arwady, Eric Owens

Honored for : Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony

Martin Sauer, Ekaterina Lekhina, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Daniel Belcher, Kent Nagano, Tobias Lehmann

Honored for : Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin

(Soloists, Producer, Conductor, engineer/mixer)

Daniel Harding, Jonathan Lemalu, Matthew Rose, Gidon Saks, Nathan Gunn, John Fraser, Ian Bostridge, Neal Davies, Jonathan Stokes, Neil Hutchinson

Honored for : Britten: Billy Budd

(Engineers/Mixers, Soloists, Conductor, Producer)

James Conlon, Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Anthony Dean Griffey, Fred Vogler

Honored for : Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny

(Conductor, Producer, Soloists)

Brian Couzens, Ralph Couzens, Jane Henschel, Rebecca Evans, Charles Mackerras, Jennifer Larmore

Honored for : Hänsel and Gretel

Valerie Gross, Dawn Upshaw, Robert Spano, Kelley O'Connor, Wolf-Dieter Karwatky, Stephan Flock, Sid McLauchlan, Jessica Rivera

Honored for : Ainadamar

(Conductor, Soloist, Engineer, Producer)

Neil Hutchinson, Bülent Bezdüz, Marina Domashenko, Michele Pertusi, Jane Henschel, Ana Ibarra, Colin Davis, James Mallinson, Jonathan Stokes, Carlos Álvarez

Honored for : Verdi: Falstaff

Lorenzo Regazzo, Patrizia Ciofi, Sebastian Roth, Véronique Gens, Simon Keenlyside, Martin Sauer, Angelika Kirchschlager, René Jacobs, Reiner Kühl

Honored for : Le Nozze di Figaro (Concerto Köln feat. conductor: René Jacobs)

(Conductor, Soloists, Producer, Engineers/Mixers)

Bernard Haitink, Karita Mattila, Jorma Silvasti, Jerry Hadley, Wolfram Graul, Anja Silja, Eva Randová

Honored for : Janá?ek: Jen?fa

(conductor, engineer, producer, soloist)

Peter Seiffert, Waltraud Meier, Eberhard Sengpiel, Jane Eaglen, Thomas Hampson, René Pape, Daniel Barenboim, Tobias Lehmann, Christoph Classen

Honored for : Tannhauser (Barenboim)

Sara Mingardo, Petra Lang, James Mallinson, Michelle DeYoung, Peter Mattei, Colin Davis, Simon Rhodes, Stephen Milling, Kenneth Tarver, Ben Heppner

Honored for : Les Troyens (Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden feat. cond: Sir Colin Davis)

Kent Nagano, Dietrich Henschel, Torsten Kerl, Markus Hollop, Eva Jenis, Martin Sauer, Jean Chatauret, Kim Begley, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Honored for : Busoni: Doktor Faust

Anne Sofie von Otter, John Eliot Gardiner, Ian Bostridge, Nicholas Parker, Bryn Terfel, Deborah York

Honored for : The Rake's Progress (The Monteverdi Choir & London Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: John Eliot Gardiner)

Karl-August Naegler, Jessye Norman, Pierre Boulez, László Polgár

Honored for : Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle

Ben Heppner, Alan Opie, Herbert Lippert, René Pape, Georg Solti, Karita Mattila, Michael Woolcock, Iris Vermillion, José van Dam

Honored for : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Janice Watson, Alan Opie, Richard Hickox, Philip Langridge, Brian Couzens

Honored for : Britten: Peter Grimes

Deborah Voigt, Gino Quilico, Gary Lakes, Françoise Pollet, Charles Dutoit, Ray Minshull

Honored for : Berlioz: Les Troyens

(producer, conductor)

Kenn Chester, Martin Sauer, Cheryl Studer, Samuel Ramey, Jerry Hadley, Kent Nagano

Honored for : Susannah (Chœur et Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon feat. conductor: Kent Nagano)

(Conductor, Producer, Artists)

Sylvia McNair, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Neil Mackie, Mark S. Doss, Michael Chance, John Nelson, Kathleen Battle, Steven Paul, John Aler

Honored for : Handel: Semele

(Producer, Artists, Conductor)

Hildegard Behrens, Reinhild Runkel, Georg Solti, Julia Varady, Plácido Domingo, José van Dam, Christopher Raeburn, Jo Su-mi, Stephen Trainor, Morten Winding

Honored for : R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten

Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Hanna Schwarz, Bernd Weikl, James Levine, Cheryl Studer, Hildegard Behrens, Matti Salminen, Reiner Goldberg, Cord Garben, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Honored for : Götterdämmerung (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus feat. conductor: James Levine)

James Morris, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Moll, Siegfried Jerusalem, James Levine, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Heinz Zednik, Cord Garben

Honored for : Das Rheingold (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra feat. conductor: James Levine)

(Artist, Producer, Conductor)

Christa Ludwig, James Levine, James Morris, Gary Lakes, Cord Garben, Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Kurt Moll

Honored for : Wagner: Die Walkuere

Christopher Raeburn, Plácido Domingo, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Hans Sotin, Eva Randová, Georg Solti, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Honored for : In fernem Land, Wagner; Lohengrin

(Artists, Producer, Conductor)

Cord Garben, Gary Lakes, Kathleen Battle, Agnes Baltsa, James Levine, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Hermann Prey

Honored for : R. Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos

(Producer, Conductor, Artists)

David Eisler, Maris Clement, Scott Reeves, Elizabeth Ostrow, John Mauceri, Joyce Castle, Jack Harrold, John Lankston, James Billings, Erie Mills

Honored for : Candide (1982 New York City Opera cast)

(artist, producer, conductor)

Franz Mazura, Philip Langridge, Georg Solti, James Mallinson

Honored for : Moses und Aron (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus feat. conductor Sir Georg Solti)

Julia Migenes, Michael Glotz, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, Lorin Maazel

Honored for : Carmen: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

James Levine, Cornell MacNeil, Max Wilcox, Plácido Domingo, Jay David Saks, Teresa Stratas

Honored for : La Traviata

Kiri Te Kanawa, Christopher Raeburn, Frederica von Stade, Lucia Popp, Georg Solti, Thomas Allen, Samuel Ramey, Kurt Moll

Honored for : Mozart; Le Nozze Di Figaro

Pierre Boulez, Andrew Kazdin, Jeannine Altmeyer, Hermann Becht, Peter Hofmann, Siegfried Jerusalem, Gwyneth Jones, Manfred Jung, Donald McIntyre, Matti Salminen, Ortrun Wenkel, Heinz Zednik

Honored for : Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen

Ivo Zídek, Václav Zítek, James Mallinson, Charles Mackerras, Jiri Zahradnicek

Honored for : From the House of the Dead (Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras)

Pierre Boulez, Günther Breest, Michael Horwath

Honored for : Berg: Lulu (Complete Version)

Vittorio Negri, Colin Davis

Honored for : Britten: Peter Grimes (Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden feat. tenor: Jon Vickers, soprano: Heather Harper, baritone: Jonathan Summers, conductor: Sir Colin Davis)

(Producer, Conductor)

John Coveney, Julius Rudel, George Sponhaltz

Honored for : The Merry Widow

(Producers, Conductor)

Thomas Z. Shepard, John DeMain

Honored for : Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

(Artist, Producer)

Lorin Maazel, Michael Woolcock

Honored for : Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

(Artist, Producer)

Colin Davis, Erik Smith

Honored for : Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte

(Artist, Producer)

Georg Solti, Richard Mohr

Honored for : La Bohème (London Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Georg Solti)

Thomas Mowrey, Leonard Bernstein

Honored for : Bizet: Carmen

(Artist, Producer)

Colin Davis, Erik Smith

Honored for : Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini

(Artist)

Erich Leinsdorf, Richard Mohr

Honored for : Aida (London Symphony Orchestra feat. Erich Leinsdorf)

(Producer, Artist)

Colin Davis, Erik Smith

Honored for : Berlioz: Les Troyens

(Producer, Artist)

Herbert von Karajan, Otto Gerdes

Honored for : Wagner: Siegfried

(Producer, Artist)

Richard Mohr, Erich Leinsdorf

Honored for : Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte

(Artist, Producer)

Thomas Z. Shepard, Pierre Boulez

Honored for : Berg: Wozzeck

(Artist, Producer)

Georg Solti

Honored for : Die Walküre

Karl Böhm

Honored for : Berg: Wozzeck

(Artist)

Herbert von Karajan

Honored for : Carmen (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan, choir: Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Boys Choir)

Erich Leinsdorf

Honored for : Madama Butterfly (Orchestra e Coro della RCA Italiana feat. conductor: Erich Leinsdorf, soprano: Leontyne Price, tenor: Richard Tucker, mezzo-soprano: Rosalind Elias, baritone: Philip Maero)

Georg Solti

Honored for : Verdi: Aida

(Artist)

Gabriele Santini

Honored for : Madame Butterfly

(Artist)

Erich Leinsdorf

Honored for : Puccini: Turandot

(Artist)