Hebert Von Karajan, Salzburger Osterfestspiele 1986.
Elisabetta - Fiamma Izzo d'Amico
Filippo II - Ferruccio Furlanetto
Roderico - Piero Cappuccilli
Eboli - Agnes Baltsa


ELISABETTA
Justice, justice, Sire!
Justice, justice!
I have faith in the integrity of the King!
I am cruelly treated in your court
and outraged by misterious, unknown enemies.
The casket where I kept all my treasures, Sire, jewels...
other articles still dearer to me,
they have stolen from me!
Justice, justice!
I claim it of Your Majesty!

FILIPPO
This is what you are looking for?

ELISABETTA
Heavens!

FILIPPO
Pray open it.
Very well, then I wil.

ELISABETTA
Oh, I will die!

FILIPPO
Carlo's portrait!
Have you nothing to say?
Carlo's picture!

ELISABETTA
Yes.

FILIPPO
Among your jewels?

ELISABETTA
Yes

FILIPPO
What? You dare to confess that to me?

ELISABETTA
I dare! Yes!
You know perfectly well my hand
was once promised to your son!
Now I belong to you...
submissive to God, but chaste as a lily am I.
And now Elisabetta's honour is suspect.
Doubt is cast upon me...
and he who wrongs me is the King!

FILIPPO
You speak to boldly!
You think me weak and seem to defy me;
weakness in me can turn to fury.
Tremble then, for yourself, for me.

ELISABETTA
What is my guilt?

FILIPPO
Perjured jade!
If such shame has o'erbrimmed my cup,
if I have been betrayed by you,
I swear before heaven blood shall be shed!

ELISABETTA
I feel compassion for you...

FILIPPO
Ha! The compassion of an adulterous wife!

ELISABETTA
Ah!

FILIPPO
Help for the queen!

EBOLI
Heavens! What have I done? Alas!

RODERICO
Sire, half the world is in your power;
could it be you are the only one in so vast an empire
you are unable to control?

FILIPPO
Oh, cursed be the fatal suspicion,
the work of a demon from hell!

EBOLI
I have ruined her, ruined her!
Oh, fatal remorse!

FILIPPO
No! She has not sullied her sworn vow!
Her proud mien tells me so!

EBOLI
I have committed a fiendish crime!
I have ruined her, ruined her!

RODERICO
Now the hour for action have struck,
the dread thunderbolt has flared in the sky.
Let a man die for Spain,
I will bequeath her a happy future.

EBOLI
Ah, I betrayed her... I betrayed that noble heart! Oh misery!

ELISABETTA
What has happened? Oh heavens!
In tears and grief, mother,
everyone has abandoned me.
I am a stranger in this land!
I have no remaining hope on earth!

FILIPPO
No, she has not sullied her sworn vow!
This woman has not been unfaithful to me!
Oh, cursed be my suspicion,
that demon, that evil demon