Oh!...Essa!...Musetta!

Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème - Oh!...Essa!...Musetta!

Mimì, Mirella Freni
Musetta, Elizabeth Harwood
Rodolfo, Luciano Pavarotti
Marcello, Rolando Panerai
Schaunard, Gianni Maffeo
Colline, Nicolai Ghiaurov
Parpignol, Gernot Pietsch
Benoit e Alcindoro, Michel Sénéchal
Doganiere, Hans-Dietrich Pohl
Sergente dei doganieri, Hans-Dieter Appelt

Dir: Herbert von Karajan
Berliner Philharmoniker

R: Oh!
M: Her!
R:Musetta!
Women: Oh! Her! Yes! Oh! Her! Musetta! We're in the money! What a get-up!
A: Like a porter...running here and there...No! no! I won't put up with it...
Mu: Come, Lulu!
A: I've had enough!
S: That ugly fellow seems to be sweating!
A: What Here outside? here?
Mu: Sit, Lulu!
A: I beg you to reserve such nicknames for tête-à-têtes!
Mu: Don't be such a Bluebeard!
C: Here is vice dignified.
M: With the chaste Susanna!
Mi: She's very well dressed though!
R: The angels go naked.
Mi: You know her! Who is she?
M: Ask me that. Her name is Musetta...
Mu: Marcella has seen me...
M: Surname: Temptation!
Mu: and won't look at me, the beast!
M: Her vocation is to play the weather-vane,...
Mu: That Schaunard's laughing!
M: she turns and turns and often changes both lovers and love...
Mu: They all annoy me!
M: and like the owl
Mu: If I could only hit them!
M: she is a bird of prey.
Mu: If I could scratch them
M: Her daily fare...
Mu: But I have nothing to hand
M: is a heart!
Mu: but his tooth-pick!
M: She eats hearts!
Mu: Just wait!
M:That's why I've non any more!
Mu: Here! Waiter!
M: Pass the stew.
Mu: Here! Waiter! This plate stinks of frying!
A: No, Musetta, quiet, quiet!
Mu: He's not turning round!
A: Quiet, quiet, behave, where are your manners!
Mu: Ah, he's not turning round!
A: To whom are you talking?
C:This chicken is a dream!
Mu: Now I'll hit him, I'll hit him!
A: With whom are you talking?
Mu: To the waiter, don't be a nuisance.
S: The wine is out of this world.
Mu: I want to do as I please.
A: Not so loud
Mu: I'll do as I like.
A: Speak more softly
Mu: Don't be a nuisance!
Girls: Look, look who's here, Musetta in person.
Students: With that stammering old boy!
She, Musetta, herself! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Mu: Can he be jealous of this old mummy?
A: Propriety...my position...your honour...
Mu: Let's see if I still have enough power over him to make him give in!
S: What a stupendous joke!
Mu: You don't look at me!
A: You can see I'm ordering!
S: a rip-roaring farce!
C: Stupendous!
R: For your future guidance, bear in mind I wouldn't be constantly forgiving you.
S: She speaks to one...that the other may hear.
Mi: I love you so much...and I'm all yours!
C: And the other unkind in vain
Mi: Why do you talk to me of forgiveness?
C: Pretends not to understand, but is in heaven.
Mu: But your heart is hammering.
A: Speak softly!
Mu: Your heart is hammering.
A: Softly, softly.