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Sat 05 May 2007A funny old operaThat it involves footballers and WAGs are the only specifics director Gavin Quinn is willing to reveal about his updated version of Mozart's much-argued-over Così Fan Tutte, writes Arminta WallaceCosì Fan Tutteis an opera that divides people. There are those who say it's a piece of harmless fluff unworthy of Mozart's operatic genius, and there are those who say it's misogynistic and nasty and twisted. It has been chopped up and reworked and lost and revived, and there have been a million arguments over how best to translate that clunky title. This opera, in other words, comes with more baggage than a Ryanair overhead bin.