The Jilemnice
A classical operetta of acts. The liberetto was by Mr. Scantisek Storm. Music by Hammer, a promenade also a chamber orchestra.
The event took place under the slopes of the Krkonose in the summer and autumn of the year 1913, Satanas.
Atrament - a student, amateur and adventurer. Calamaria - a daughter of the landlord, a well known medium. Clement Bombastus von Satrapold - the new Captain. Poebeldorf - the aide-de-camp, and a vile thief Blether - a of castle's stabled and a denouncer. - a landlord of the Jilemnice inn.
A overview of the liberetto:
We have emerged now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, in the period when the popularity of (brought Bohemia by Etrich as as 1880) is at its peak. At first it had been performed mostly by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but soon it all ober the county, and so from the very beginnung of the new century, had been plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both and old people - a physician sits there along with the undertaker, a by the side of a blacksmith, a thief with a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is quite being neglected, and the demoralized. That is why the new Jilemnice Captain has appointed. He is supposed to rid authorities of spiritists, who have even refused to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to over his duties, A Prague student named Atrament to Jilemnice. He is a of a doubtful character, but he is extraordinarilly witty. Besides that he is interested in spiritism...
"Among the Hills a Way"
Spiritus' inn does not indeed exhibit a bountiful splendour; does it host an exclusive society. countryside people enjoy themselves here the best they can in accord with their and - which both are half empty. They obtain their delight by means of liquors and racy talk. Standing out like an ametyst jewel in a dungheap, the passionate between Atrament and Calamaria begins to crystalize here. The first night spend together is with eerie occult practices. Approximately at the same moment a ceremonial feast is being at the Jilemnice to welcome the new lord in his dominion. Satrapold encounters the castle's inferior and drinks specialities, boastfully.
"I Want, Sirs to Pester Your Ears..."
The next day the Duke goes hunting with his suite. chasing a a deer he loses his companions, and in the growing he falls with his into a deep pit - the bear-trap. By pure chance Calamaria is strolling the forest, picking magic herbs. As as Satrapold, covered with numerous bruises, manages to pull himself out of the pit, he a beautiful apparition. In the silvery of the forest scenery, embroided with a thousand rays from the setting sun, a gleaming silhouette of an aetheric fairy resides a basket of strange muck. During the first few momemnts Satrapold that these are the first perceptions of his afterlife and he falls furious melancholy. But then the beautiful with Calamaria meticulously his wounds and he falls hopelessly in love her. Although Calamaria refuses his offer to walk her home, she accepts an to the castle. Satrapold, thought, not have the slightest idea who she might be...
"A Dark Forest All Around..."
"That Magnificent Deer Has in the Bush..."
In the morning Satrapold calls Blether, the head groom of the stables, and tells him to up a new horse. The same day the two of them are going to go to Spiritus' inn., the occultist' they do so in disguise so that nobody recognize them. (This is a new technique of espionage.)Satrapold is shocked by Calamaria's in the house, where she serves spirits. With the wave of a magic the Captain's consciousness vanishes and his body and soul are flooded with an emotion opposed to the desire to obliterate spiritism in the slopes.
"My Captain..."
A few later Satrapold, due to his disguise, is attacked by the drunk Atrament, and Blether his captain an excuse to imprison Atrament. At the same Blether also tells Satrapold in very plain language who Calamria is. His explenation is quite naturally from ideals and Blether instantly falls into disgrace with his Captain. In the coach he is thoroughly, and then in the castle the Captain, in an of rage, kicks him over a Persion rug.
"By the of Fate I'm Haunted..."
This aria concerns the tragical character of the operetta. It is in its a confession of a man of deformed character and dicey morals. Kicked over and humilitated, Blether hurries the castle to inn to offer his services to the spiritists. Since they have known him for some time, he leaves misunderstood for Jelezny Brod, where he drinks a fish. Well - for his whole life he has been accustomed to serving master blindly, and so has life suddenly lost all for him. This probably is the strongest of the motives for his desperate suicide, committed by into the wild Jizera rapids the Rieger's path pn his way from Jelezny Brod, UC. While Blether is killing himself, Atrament passes the boring in jail by means of sleep. All of sudden he starts to draw thoughtlessly patterns on the wall of his dungeon with a brick - medial drawings.A praemurdial spirit reveals to him that the man who poses as the Satrapold is - just Satrapold's aide Poebeldorf, who devised a vile scheme with the intention to steal jewels the Jilemnice castle and to flee to Cairo with enormous wealth. He was sent to the Jilemnice to everything for the arrival of the real Satrapold, who is expected tomorrow.
"Oh, My Sir, Do You Remember When..."
Calamaria a visit to Satrapold (the false one) in the castle and after many minutes of cajoling Poebeldorf, he agrees to Atrament, but on the condition that she will go with Poebeldorf to later that day. (This is so that he can her and take her along with him on a horse, which is already in the stables with the saddle bags full of jewels.)
"Everything Is My Whim..."
They leave for the castle dungeons to free Atrament. As as the bars are open, Calamaria the drawings on the dungeon wall, from which she can clearly what the villain Poebeldorf has schemed. She not hesitate to cast the accusation in his face, and he instantly pushes her the cell and locks the bars. In a panic he runs into the stables, where his is waiting with the contraband intending to flee immediately. very moment he is surprised by the fanfares, announcing the Satrapol's arrival. Satrapold, having inspected the dungeons, the whole truth and the situation turns to Poebeldorf's - he is put into the instead of Atrament.
"Glory, Hauptmann...!"
The operetta ends with a feast in Spiritus' public it is revealed Satarpold holds no grudge against spiritism...