COT Bonds with classic 17th century comic opera

'JASON' ('GIASONE')

- 7:30 p.m. Saturday,

7:30 p.m. Wednesday and April 30; 3 p.m. May 2

- Harris Theater, 205 E. Randolph

- Tickets, $30-$120;

students $15-$40

- (312) 704-8414;

chicagooperatheater.org

Director Justin Way has just ruminated on the fads of early Venetian opera, but now he is repressing the urge to giggle.

"It's such a delightful, ridiculous, almost blasphemous retelling of this piece of Greek history," says the Australian-born Way, 39, as he breaks into a chuckle. "Ultimately, everyone comes out thinking they're about to see the Jason and the

Argonauts myth, but then someone comes out with a …