...exuberant production, directed and designed by COT general director Andreas Mitisek... If all this sounds like an edgy contemporary cross between "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Cabaret," you'd be right. Chicago Opera Theater's reimagining of Henry Purcell's 1692 masque "The Fairy Queen" is perhaps the gayest show in town, and may just be the silliest as well, with laughs and elegant baroque tunes in abundance.