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Gregorio Nieto: Anthony Hopkins’ Music Is Sincere and Goes Straight to the Soul

From El Nacional · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Venezuelan cellist Gregorio Nieto recorded the cello solos for Anthony Hopkins’ first album, Life is a Dream, after an invitation from conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
  • Nieto said Hopkins offered to write him a cello concerto, while Nieto prepares to release The Souls for the Soul.

For Gregorio Nieto, Anthony Hopkins’ music is not a celebrity side project built on pretension. “The music is sincere, it goes straight to the soul,” the Venezuelan cellist said.

Nieto, 42, comes from Barquisimeto and trained through Venezuela’s El Sistema and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Conductor Gustavo Dudamel invited him to record the cello solos for Life is a Dream, Hopkins’ first album.

Nieto said he never quite fit into orchestras because of his histrionic character. Working with Hopkins, however, he discovered music without pretensions.

The musician also said that Hopkins, famous for playing Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, offered to write him a cello concerto. Nieto is now preparing the release of his own album, The Souls for the Soul.

The music is sincere, it goes straight to the soul.

· Gregorio NietoNieto described the character of Anthony Hopkins’ music after working on Hopkins’ first album.
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Originally published by El Nacional in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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