Best Opera Recording

Information about Best Opera Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962.

Prior to 1961 the awards for operatic and choral performances were combined in a single award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

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The Grammy awards are named for the trophy: a small, gilded gramophone statuette.
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The Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Operatic or Choral was awarded in 1959. The equivalent award, Best Classical Performance - Opera Cast or Choral was awarded in 1960. Since 1962 the award has been divided into separate awards for opera and choral performances.
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49th Grammy Awards

Date February 11, 2007
Venue Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
Host None
Network: CBS

The 49th Annual Grammy Awards
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Robert Spano (born May 7, 1961) is an American conductor and pianist. Since 2001 he has been Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), and he served as Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic from 1996 to 2004.
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Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a world-renowned American soprano described as "one of the most consequential performers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times.
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is a major American orchestra based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Robert Spano has been their Music Director since 2001.

The orchestra was founded in 1945, and played its first concert as the Atlanta Youth Symphony under the direction of
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Osvaldo Golijov (born in La Plata, Argentina, December 5, 1960) [1] is a Grammy award winning composer of classical music.

Biography

Osvaldo Golijov (pronounced [ˈgolixof]
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Ainadamar means "Fountain of Tears" in Arabic, and is the first opera by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov. The libretto is by American playwright David Henry Hwang. It premiered in Tanglewood on August 10, 2003.
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48th Grammy Awards

Date February 8, 2006
Venue Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
Host none
Network: CBS

The 48th Annual Grammy Awards were held on Wednesday 8 February 2006 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
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Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE (b. September 25, 1927), is a British Conductor. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey, UK. Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability at the piano.
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Carlos Alvarez may refer to:
  • Carlos Alvarez (mayor), the Mayor of Miami-Dade County
  • Carlos Álvarez (Vice-president), Argentine politician and former vice-president
  • Carlos Alvarez (professor) (born 1944), accused Cuban spy

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Bülent Bezdüz, born in Ankara, Turkey, is a Turkish tenor.

Bezdüz graduated from Gazi University’s Department of Music and started his vocal studies with Polish tenor Roman Werlinski.
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James Mallinson is a multiple-Grammy-award winning record producer. He has won a total of 15 such awards in his career, his most recent Grammy nomination - and win - having come in 2006 for Best Opera Recording.
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The London Symphony Chorus (abbreviated to LSC) is one of the major concert choirs of the United Kingdom. The Chorus was formed in 1966 to complement the work of the London Symphony Orchestra, and consists of over 200 amateur singers from all walks of life and is self-managed by a
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The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.

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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi /dʒuˈzɛppe ˈverdi/ (either October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera.
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Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare as a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. A fat, vainglorious, and cowardly knight, Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, but he is ultimately
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Grammy Awards

Date February 13, 2005
Venue Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
Host Queen Latifah
Network: CBS

The 47th Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2005 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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René Jacobs (Born: October 30, 1946, Ghent) is a Belgian (Flemish) musician. He came to fame as a countertenor but in recent years has become renowned as a conductor of Baroque and early Classical opera.
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Patrizia Ciofi, born in Casole d'Elsa, Siena in 1967, is an Italian operatic soprano.

She studied at the Istituto Musicale Pietro Mascagni in Livorno, and subsequently took part in master classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, with Carlo Bergonzi and Shirley
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Véronique Gens (born April 19, 1966, Orléans, France) is a French soprano. She has spent much of her career recording and performing Baroque music.

Gens studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her debut in 1986 was with conductor William Christie .
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Simon Keenlyside (born August 3, 1959, London, England), is a British baritone opera singer. He is the son of Raymond and Ann Keenlyside. His father played second violin in the Aeolian Quartet, and his grandfather was also a professional violinist.
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Angelika Kirchschlager (*1966 in Salzburg) is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer.

In a relatively short time, Angelika Kirchschlager has become one of the most sought after mezzo-sopranos in the opera, recognized for her dramatic skills as well as for her
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (IPA: [ˈvɔlfgaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], baptized Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
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Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (Trans: The Marriage [lit. Wedding] of Figaro or the Day of Madness), K.
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Grammy Awards

Date 2004-02-08
Venue Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
Host Christina Aguilera
Network: CBS

The 46th Grammy Awards were held on the February 8, 2004. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.
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Bernard Johan Herman Haitink CH KBE (b. March 4, 1929) is a Dutch conductor and violinist.

Biography

Haitink was born in Amsterdam, the son of Willem Haitink and Anna Haitink.[1] He studied music at the conservatoire in Amsterdam.
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Jerry Hadley (June 16 1952 – July 18 2007) was an American operatic tenor, who was a protegé of famous soprano Dame Joan Sutherland and her husband, conductor Richard Bonynge.
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Karita Mattila (born September 5 1960 in Somero, Finland), is a leading opera soprano.

She won the first Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1983 and graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where she studied with Liisa Linko-Malmio.
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Anja Silja, born April 17, 1940[1], in Berlin, is a German soprano, who is known for her great abilities as a singing-actress and for the vastness of her repertoire.
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