{"id":251121,"date":"2026-07-10T05:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/anthony-hopkins-signs-recording-contract-at-88-drops-first-single-as-a-composer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:34:34","slug":"anthony-hopkins-signs-recording-contract-at-88-drops-first-single-as-a-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/anthony-hopkins-signs-recording-contract-at-88-drops-first-single-as-a-composer\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Hopkins Signs Recording Contract at 88, Drops First Single as a Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/tags\/anthony-hopkins\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Anthony Hopkins<\/strong><\/a> just made a major career move at 88!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two-time Oscar-winning actor just signed a recording contract with Decca Classics to release a selection of orchestral works that he has written across the past six decades. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Music was my first desire, my first wish,&#8221; <strong>Anthony<\/strong> said in a statement. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been composing music all my life. Some of these pieces have lived with me for decades and I still find myself returning to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anthony<\/strong>&#8216;s first single to be released is &#8220;Bracken Road&#8221; from his selections of <em>Hopkins&#8217; 1947: Suite for Solo Piano and Orchestra<\/em>. A press release notes that the song is &#8220;inspired by childhood memories of Margam, South Wales&#8221; and &#8220;is a nostalgic musical portrait of the streets, meadows, farmland and mountains that surrounded his family home in the 1940s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"iframe-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added, \u201cMy whole life is a dream. Signing with Decca is the honour of a lifetime. It has been a true privilege to collaborate with the distinguished Philharmonia Orchestra and the virtuoso soloists, cellist Gregorio Nieto and classical pianist Sergio Tiempo. My deepest gratitude and respect go to Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, whose artistry is an integral part of this musical journey. With the graceful precision of his baton, he transformed each note with profound and indelible meaning, creating a pictorial landscape that invites the listener to feel and imagine something uniquely personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anthony<\/strong>&#8216;s album <em>Life Is a Dream<\/em> will be released on August 21. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, <strong>Anthony<\/strong> opened up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/10\/28\/anthony-hopkins-opens-up-about-painful-estrangement-from-his-only-child\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a painful part of his life<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/07\/10\/anthony-hopkins-signs-recording-contract-at-88-drops-first-single-as-a-composer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Hopkins Signs Recording Contract at 88, Drops First Single as a Composer<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/07\/10\/anthony-hopkins-signs-recording-contract-at-88-drops-first-single-as-a-composer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Anthony Hopkins just made a major career move at 88! The two-time Oscar-winning actor just signed a recording contract with Decca Classics to release a selection of orchestral works that he has written across the past six decades. &#8220;Music was my first desire, my first wish,&#8221; Anthony said in a statement. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been composing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}