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If there’s a Mozart opera in need of updating at the Met, it’s “Così Fan Tutte,” which since 1996 has been presented in a gentle and sunny production that largely ignores the show’s complex musings on men, women, power, and society. The new staging, by Phelim McDermott (opening on March 15), evokes Coney Island in the nineteen-fifties, with a troupe of carnival performers backing a cast that includes the radiant comedienne Kelli O’Hara (pictured above), who sings—in Italian—the cutup role of Despina.