Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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We went behind the scenes with our Opera students during rehearsals for Marilyn Forever.

"It was on the night of 5 August 1962 – the last night of Marilyn Monroe’s life. As men enter her bedroom, viewing her body, we see moments of her life interweaved with love, relationships, ambition, fame, identity, abandonment, myth and ultimately, death."

Chamber opera by Gavin Bryars
Libretto by Marilyn Bowering
(By arrangement with Schott Music Ltd, London)

Performers
Marilyn: Megan Baker
The Men: Ross Cumming
Tritones: James McIntyre, Ryan Garnham

Creative team
Director: Caroline Clegg
Conductor: William Cole
Designer: Finlay McLay
Lighting Designer: Davy Cunningham