The nominations for the 47th annual Grammy Awards were announced Tuesday in Los Angeles. The following were the nominees for opera and classical vocal performance recordings:
Opera Recording:
Monteverdi: L’Orfeo
Emmanuelle Haim,conductor/harpsichord/organ; Ian Bostridge, Patrizia Ciofi and Natalie Dessay; Daniel Zalay, producer (Various Artists; European Voices; Le Concert D’Astrée)
Montsalvatge: El Gato Con Botas
Antoni Ros Marba, conductor; Antonio Comas, Enric Martinez-Castignani, Marisa Martins, Isabel Monar and Stefano Palatchi; Antoni Parera Fons, producer (Simfonica del Gran Teatre del Liceu)
Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro
René Jacobs, conductor; Patrizia Ciofi, Veronique Gens, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager and Lorenzo Regazzo; Martin Sauer, producer (Various Artists; Concerto Köln)
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Emmanuelle Haim, harpsichord/conductor; Ian Bostridge and Susan Graham; Daniel Zalay, producer (Various Artists; European Voices; Le Concert D’Astrée)
Scarlatti, A.: Griselda
René Jacobs, conductor; Dorothea Röschmann and Lawrence Zazzo; Martin Sauer, producer (Various Artists; Akademie Für Alte Musik, Berlin).
Classical Vocal Performance:
Grieg and Sibelius Songs
Karita Mattila, soprano
Handel: Arias (Theodora; La Lucrezia-Cantata; Serse)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo soprano
Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; the Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc.)
Susan Graham, mezzo soprano
Marx: Orchestral Songs (Songs for High and Middle Voice; Verklartes Jahr)
Angela Maria Blasi, soprano and Stella Doufexis, mezzo soprano
A Romantic Songbook (Strauss, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, etc.)
Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone.