Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins is not slowing down any time soon.
The prolific stage and screen star, 88, has revealed he’ll be releasing his debut album next month and dropped the first single, “Bracken Road,” on Friday.
Hopkins, famed for performances in The Silence of the Lambs and more recently, The Father, explained that he has been composing the collection of classical music over six decades. He has signed with Decca Classics, who are releasing the album, titled Life Is a Dream, on Aug. 21. The songs are performed by Gustavo Dudamel with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
The first single is inspired by Hopkins’ childhood memories of Margam in South Wales, as well as “the streets, meadows, farmland, and mountains around his family home in the 1940s,” according to Decca. Another, “My Fatherland,” is inspired by traditional Welsh melodies, and compositions inspired by cinema, his wife, and his niece.
Hopkins describes music as “my first desire, my first wish… I’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. My whole life is a dream. Signing with Decca is the honor of a lifetime.”
