Verdi - Don Carlo - "Ella giammai m'amó!"

Verdi

Ruggero Raimondi - Don Carlo - "Ella giammai m'amó!" 

 

She never loved me!
No, her heart is closed to me,
she feels no love for me!
I can still see her,
sad-faced, gazing at my white hair
the day she came from France.
No, she has no love for me,
she does not love me!

Where am I?
Those candelabra are almost spent!
Dawn whites my balcony,
day is already breaking!
I see my days passing slowly!
Sleep, oh God, has wanished from my drooping eyelids.
I shall sleep alone in my royal mantle
when I attain the evening of my days,
I shall sleep alone beneath the black vault,
there, in my tomb in the Escurial.

If the royal crown could but give me
the power to read human hearts
which God alone can see!
Ah, if the royal crown, etc.
If the Prince sleeps, the traitors watches;
the King loses his crown, the husband his honour!

I shall sleep alone in my royal mantle, etc.
Ah, if the royal crown, etc.
She never loved me!
No, her heart is closed to me,
she does not love me!