Sultan bay is returning from the market
Hå is speaking by himself while he is coming slowly
SULTAN BAY:
All say just what I say: May there be an acquired widow, à mullah, three manats money, à loaf of sugar and that’s àll. What should be done? Where can I find such à woman? Oh come, oh, you lovely woman! Where are you? Come, I pray, come!

While he says these words Jahan comes out and wants to pass by.

Sultan bay is surprised

Askar's aria

Jahan's couplets and dance

Suleyman's song

Suleyman's, Jahan's and Vali's couplets and dances

Gulchohra's aria

Telli's song

Askar's song

Girl's chorus

Askar and
Gulchohra's duet

Gulchohra's aria

Asya and Telli's duet

Askar's song

Sultan bay's couplets

Gulchohra's aria

Asya's song

Vali and Telli's duet

Gulchohra's song

Trio. Asya, Telli and Gulchohra

Gulchohra's weeping

 

SULTAN BAY: Wow! Do I see à ghost? No, it seems to me she is à real woman, and she comes out of my house. It seems that God sent my equal.
Hå is going towards Jahan
SULTAN BAY: Lady, who are you? What are you doing in my house?
JAHAN: I brought Arshin Mali, to show the girls.
SULTAN BÀÓ: (aside) She is à real woman. But it would be not bad if I could see her face. (Hå says to her). Well sister, may be you are à man in à woman’s clothes!
JAHAN: Oh, brother, what are you saying?
SULTAN BAY: If not, then open your face à little bit, I want to be sure.
JAHAN: (opening her face) Do you see that I’m à woman?
SULTAN BAY: Yes, I do (aside) she is just the woman I wanted! (Hå says tî hår) Well, explain to me, who are you? What are you? And whom do you belong to?
JAHAN: I’m the cloth peddler’s aunt and I sell goods to girls and women.
SULTAN BAY: But you didn’t tell me whom you belong to?
JAHAN: Bay, I am the broker Karbalayi Nasir's wife. May be you knew him.
SULTAN BÀÓ: No, I didn’t know. I do not have any contact with brokers... Well it means your husband is à broker, and you sell Arshin Mali...
JAHAN: Yes, my husband used to be à broker.
SULTAN BAY: Used to? And what is he doing now?
JAHAN: God knows what he is doing now! My late husband died 12 years ago.
SULTAN BAY: (chuckles) Is he dead? So it means you are à widow, aren’t you?
JAHAN: Yes, I am.
SULTAN BAY: So, there you are!
Hå coughs and becomes serious
 
 
  © Musigi Dunyasi, 2005