As the season heats up, Charlottesville Opera’s Wallace Worx offers a weekend of chilling operas based on Edgar Allan Poe stories. Embedded (“The Cask of Amontillado”) follows a news reporter trying to maintain her top slot and stave off younger competition. The Tell Tale Cell Phone (“Tell-tale Heart”) is a short, suspenseful work that builds into madness over incessant cell phone use. The Wallace Worx series—named for a gift by board member Anne Wallace—is an initiative to present modern operas in English. $10–68.50, times vary. Live Arts, 123 Water St. charlottesvilleopera.org
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