The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. 8 p.m., Sat. Like the Smoky Mountains of her native eastern Tennessee, Varagona's slow and dark alt-country droop is at once both foreboding and beautiful. D.R.E.S. the Beatnik MCs. You never know if you might see Bushwick Bill or some such underground star hanging out.
Admission is discounted with a canned good.
A full-scale fashion show and costume ball will put the convention to rest. 4156 Lavista Road. No waiting in line if you're in costume. Sunday, October 29 Sensurround Stagings presents three original jewels of horror Oct. 28-31 with a production of Professor Guignol's Theatre of Blood . Presented on a 1920's Proscenium stage, this tribute to the outlawed French-style theater known as the Grand Guignol will include decapitations, strangulation, rape and rhumba and creative uses of meat, blood and finger foods.