The Recording Academy has announced the nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards. The winning awards will be presented in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 1, 2026. The following are the nominations in the classical category for orchestra, small ensemble, solo instrumentalist, engineering, producer, and opera.
Best Opera Recording (award to the conductor, album producer/s, and principal soloists, and to the composer and librettist [if applicable] of a world premiere opera recording only):
– Heggie: Intelligence—Kwamé Ryan, conductor; Jamie Barton, J’Nai Bridges, and Janai Brugger; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Houston Grand Opera; Gene Scheer)
– Huang Ruo: An American Soldier—Carolyn Kuan, conductor; Hannah Cho, Alex DeSocio, Nina Yoshida Nelsen, and Brian Vu; Adam Abeshouse, Silas Brown, and Doron Schachter, producers (American Composers Orchestra; David Henry Hwang)
– Kouyoumdjian: Adoration—Alan Pierson, conductor; Miriam Khalil, Marc Kudisch, David Adam Moore, Omar Najmi, Naomi Louisa O’Connell, and Karim Sulayman; Mary Kouyoumdjian, producer (Silvana Quartet; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street)
– O’Halloran: Trade and Mary Motorhead—Elaine Kelly, conductor; Oisín Ó Dálaigh and John Molloy; Alex Dowling and Emma O’Halloran, producers (Irish National Opera Orchestra; Mark O’Halloran)
– Tesori: Grounded—Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Ben Bliss, Emily D’Angelo, Greer Grimsley, and Kyle Miller; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; George Brant)
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