David Frost is a recording producer with numerous releases by major labels such as Sony Classical, Decca Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI Classics, and RCA Red Seal. Honors include twenty-five Grammy Awards, among them seven for Classical Producer of the Year; four for Best Engineered Classical Album, four for Best Opera Recording for the Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” releases of Philip Glass’ “Akhnaten”, Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and Terrence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in my Bones” and “Champion”; Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance for the Verdi Requiem with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony; Best Surround Sound Album, Renée Fleming’s “Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene” and “Verismo”, Sharon Isbin’s “Journey to the New World”, “Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago”, and for the Sony Classical recording “Listen to the Storyteller”, with music by Wynton Marsalis, Edgar Meyer and Patrick Doyle, narrated by Kate Winslet and Graham Greene. He was the producer for Alicia de Larrocha’s RCA recording of Granados’ Goyescas, which won both a Grammy Award and the Grand Prix du Disque.
68th Grammy Award Nominations
December 12, 2025
David Frost has been nominated for two GRAMMY awards as Producer!
NOMINATED – BEST OPERA RECORDING
- Tesori: Grounded Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Ben Bliss, Emily D’Angelo, Greer Grimsley & Kyle Miller; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; George Brant)
NOMINATED – BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
- Childs: In The Arms Of The Beloved Grant Gershon, conductor (Billy Childs, Dan Chmielinski, Christian Euman, Larry Koonse, Lyris Quartet, Anne Akiko Meyers, Carol Robbins & Luciana Souza; Los Angeles Master Chorale; David Frost, producer)
67th Grammy Award Nominations
December 17, 2024
David Frost has been nominated for two GRAMMY awards as Producer!
NOMINATED – BEST OPERA RECORDING
- Catán: Florencia En El Amazonas – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Mario Chang, Michael Chioldi, Greer Grimsley, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mattia Olivieri, Ailyn Pérez & Gabriella Reyes; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
- Puts: The Hours – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming & Kelli O’Hara; David Frost, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
