Krzysztof Lorentz wrote:

>Robert Peters wrote:
>
>>2) The operas libretto is openly racist and misogynous.  I am no regualar
>>guest in opera houses.  How do modern productions deal with these
>>tendencies of the libretto? Thanks for any hints,
>
>'Openly racist and misogynous' are too strong words.  Because Queen of the
>Night and her Three Ladies are women

No.  Because Tamino, on confronting Sarastro for the first time, lets
himself be (rightly, perhaps) disabused of all that the Queen of the Night
had told him about the circumstances of Sarastro's having kidnapped the
Queen's daughter, by the simple question, "You mean you're going to believe
what a woman tells you?"

Walter Meyer