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.