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Starring “the man of a thousand faces”, the legendary Lon Chaney, The Phantom of the Opera returns, over a hundred years after its release, so that audiences can experience this epic tale of horror, love and mystery on the big screen.
Based on Gaston Leroux’s novel, Chaney stalks the screen as the titular Phantom, a lost soul haunting the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, who kidnaps a young opera singer (Mary Philbin) so that only he can listen to her angelic voice.
There have been many adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera in the one hundred years since its release, but few have come close to director Rupert Julian’s lavish Gothic epic that helped shape the horror genre as we know it – and there’s no better way to experience it than on the big screen with live piano score, performed by one of the best silent film accompanists in the country.
Classically-trained from the age of two, Melbourne-born London-based musician Meg Morley was awarded Distinctions by the Australian Music Examinations Board for its Associate and Licentiate diplomas in piano before completing a Master of Music in classical performance and a Postgraduate Certificate in composition.
Meg relocated to London in 2010 where, as a composer, she has collaborated with choreographers and numerous international dance companies (Matthew Bourne, Pina Bausch, English National Ballet). Since performing her first improvised score for silent film in 2016, Meg has regularly played at various international film festivals and became the house pianist for the British Film Institute in Southbank, London.
Meg has provided piano accompaniment for several silent film screenings at The Pound to great acclaim, including Nosferatu (1922), Joan of Arc (1928), The Navigator (1924) and Girl Shy (1924).