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Re: The Magic Flute
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Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 10 May 2000 00:05:20 -0400
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Robert Peters wrote:

>2) The operas libretto is openly racist and misogynous.

The music is sublime; the libretto, crazy.  But racist? My favorite line
in the opera, Papageno's after recovering from his fright at beholding
Monostatos: "I've seen black birds, why not a black man?"

Walter Meyer

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