{"id":684839,"date":"2026-07-10T20:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684839\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:14:13","slug":"sir-anthony-hopkins-to-release-debut-album-life-is-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684839\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Anthony Hopkins to release debut album Life is a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laura Monks, president of Decca Classics, said the team had been “thrilled” to work with “such a legend”. <\/p>\n

“There has been a complete energy in the office, everyone buzzing with excitement because we are helping him deliver on a life long dream”, she told BBC Radio Wales Drive.<\/a><\/p>\n

Monks, who witnessed Hopkins recording the albumm said the team had goosebumps on their arms and his “life long knowledge” of classical music was clear to those in the room.<\/p>\n

“He was listening to the music intently, he was giving notes, it was just really a special and unique thing to see,” she said.<\/p>\n

Sir Anthony continues to pay tribute to Wales on another of the album’s tracks, My Fatherland. <\/p>\n

He said he wrote the piece to “honour my humble beginnings”, adding “I am the son of my father, the baker”.<\/p>\n

Other compositions on the album draw on memories of Port Talbot, childhood visits with his grandfather, the cinema that first caught his imagination, and the people closest to him.<\/p>\n

Sir Anthony’s portrayal of cannibalistic killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs won him the leading actor gong at the 1992 Oscars.<\/p>\n

He went on to star in The Silence Of The Lambs sequel Hannibal (2001) and its prequel Red Dragon (2002).<\/p>\n

The actor won a second Oscar in 2020 for his role in Florian Zeller’s The Father which also starred Olivia Colman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Monks, president of Decca Classics, said the team had been “thrilled” to work with “such a legend”.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}