Tête à Tête Opera Festival Week 2: Friday

First up, at 6.55pm, is 'Fossils and Monsters', tales of the nineteenth century figures Mary Anning and Mary Shelley, with music by Judith Bingham, Christopher Hobbs, Colin Riley and William O. Smith. At 7pm, Size Zero Opera presents 'Viagron', Arnie Gieshoff's work based on Petronius's classical novel-cum-erotic travelogue 'The Satyricon'. At 8.15pm, take a short walk to a mystery location for 'The Garden', John and Zinnie Harris's tale of a dysfunctional couple who discover a strange plant in the floor of their kitchen. It's followed, at 9pm, 'by 'Kettlehead', Darren Bloom's exploration of voodoo and revenge centred on the transformation of a promising young girl into a mutilated social pariah. The evening wraps up, at 9.15pm, with Stephen McNeff's'Vivienne', an opera focusing on TS Eliot's first wife.