The Occultist
A classical of three acts. The was written by Mr. Scantisek Storm. by Master's Hammer, a promenade although also a orchestra.
The event took under the slopes of the Krkonose mountains in the summer and of the year 1913, Anno Satanas.
Atrament - a student, amateur and adventurer. Calamaria - a daughter of Spiritus the landlord, a known medium. Bombastus von Satrapold - the new Jilemnice Captain. Poebeldorf - the aide-de-camp, and a vile thief - a groom of castle's stabled and a denouncer. Spiritus - a of the Jilemnice inn.
A brief of the liberetto:
We have emerged now in in the year 1913, and, therefore in the period the popularity of spiritism (brought Bohemia by Etrich as as 1880) is at its peak. At first it had been performed mostly by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but it spread all ober the county, and so the very beginnung of the new century, there had been plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both and old people - a physician sits along with the undertaker, a clerk by the side of a blacksmith, a thief together a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is quite being neglected, and the demoralized. is why the new Jilemnice Captain has been appointed. He is supposed to rid of bothersome spiritists, who have even to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to take over his duties, A Prague student named comes to Jilemnice. He is a free-thinker of a character, but he is extraordinarilly witty. Besides he is thoroughly interested in spiritism...
"Among the Hills a Way"
Spiritus' inn does not indeed exhibit a splendour; neither does it host an society. Vigorous countryside people enjoy themselves the best they can in accord with their wallets and intellects - which both are half empty. They obtain their by means of cheap liquors and racy talk. Standing out an ametyst jewel in a dungheap, the passionate feeling Atrament and begins to crystalize here. The first night they spend together is filled eerie occult practices. Approximately at the same moment a ceremonial feast is held at the Jilemnice to welcome the new lord in his dominion. Satrapold encounters the castle's inferior and liquor specialities, boastfully.
"I Don't Want, Sirs to Your Ears..."
The next day the Duke hunting with his suite. Fiercely chasing a a deer he loses his companions, and in the growing he falls with his horse into a deep pit - the bear-trap. By pure Calamaria is strolling through the forest, picking herbs. As soon as Satrapold, covered with numerous bruises, manages to out of the pit, he sees a beautiful apparition. In the silvery haze of the forest scenery, embroided with a thousand from the setting sun, a silhouette of an aetheric fairy resides with a basket of strange muck. During the first few momemnts think that these are the first perceptions of his afterlife and he falls into 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, does not have the slightest who she might be...
"A Forest Spreads All Around..."
"That Magnificent Deer Has in the Bush..."
In the morning calls Blether, the head groom of the castle's stables, and tells him to saddle up a new horse. The day the two of them are to go to Spiritus' inn., the occultist' nest; they do so in disguise so that will recognize them. (This is a new of espionage.)Satrapold is shocked by Calamaria's presence in the public house, where she spirits. With the wave of a magic wand the 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 moments later Satrapold, due to his disguise, is by the drunk Atrament, and Blether offers his an excuse to imprison Atrament. At the same time Blether also tells Satrapold in plain language who Calamria is. His explenation is naturally different from satarpold's and Blether instantly falls into disgrace with his Captain. In the he is slapped thoroughly, and then in the castle the Captain, in an of rage, kicks him over a Persion rug.
"By the Misery of I'm Haunted..."
This aria concerns the most tragical of the operetta. It is in its substance a confession of a man of character and dicey morals. Kicked over and humilitated, Blether hurries the castle to Spiritus' inn to offer his services to the spiritists. they already known him for some time, he leaves misunderstood for Jelezny Brod, where he drinks like a fish. Well - for his life he has been accustomed to serving some blindly, and so has life suddenly lost all meaning for him. This is the strongest of the for his desperate suicide, committed by jumping into the Jizera rapids from the Rieger's path pn his way from Jelezny Brod, UC. While is killing himself, Atrament passes the boring time in jail by means of sleep. All of sudden he starts to draw thoughtlessly strange on the wall of his dungeon with a broken brick - drawings.A praemurdial spirit reveals to him that the man who poses as the Captain Satrapold is - Satrapold's treacherous aide Poebeldorf, who devised a vile scheme the intention to steal from the Jilemnice castle and to flee to Cairo enormous wealth. He was sent to the Jilemnice castle to prepare everything for the arrival of the Satrapold, who is just tomorrow.
"Oh, My Precious Sir, Do You When..."
Calamaria pays a visit to Satrapold (the false one) in the and after minutes of cajoling Poebeldorf, he agrees to free Atrament, but on the condition that she will go with Poebeldorf to hunt that day. (This is so that he can kidnap her and take her along him on a horse, is already waiting in the stables with the saddle bags of stolen jewels.)
"Everything Is My Whim..."
leave for the castle dungeons to free Atrament. As soon as the bars are open, Calamaria the drawings on the dungeon wall, from which she can clearly what the villain Poebeldorf has schemed. She does not hesitate to the accusation in his face, and he instantly her into the cell and locks the bars. In a panic he runs the stables, where his horse is waiting with the contraband intending to flee immediately. very moment he is by the fanfares, announcing the real Satrapol's arrival. Satrapold, inspected the dungeons, learns the whole truth and the situation turns to Poebeldorf's disadvantage - he is put the instead of Atrament.
"Glory, Hauptmann...!"
The operetta ends with a feast in Spiritus' public it is that Satarpold holds no grudge against spiritism...