The Occultist
A classical operetta of acts. The was written by Mr. Scantisek Storm. Music by Master's Hammer, a also a chamber 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. - a daughter of Spiritus the landlord, a well known medium. Clement Bombastus von - the new Jilemnice Captain. Poebeldorf - the aide-de-camp, and a vile thief Blether - a groom of 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 when the popularity of spiritism (brought Bohemia by 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 beginnung of the new century, there had been plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both young and old people - a sits there with the undertaker, a clerk by the side of a blacksmith, a thief with a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is naturally being neglected, and the demoralized. That is why the new Captain has been appointed. He is supposed to rid authorities of spiritists, who have even to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to take over his duties, A Prague student Atrament comes 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 exhibit a bountiful splendour; neither does it host an exclusive society. Vigorous countryside enjoy themselves here the they can in accord with their wallets and intellects - which are half empty. They obtain their delight by means of cheap and racy talk. Standing out like an ametyst jewel in a dungheap, the feeling between Atrament and Calamaria begins to crystalize here. The first night they together is filled eerie occult practices. at the same moment a ceremonial feast is being held at the Jilemnice to welcome the new lord in his dominion. Satrapold encounters the castle's and drinks liquor specialities, boastfully.
"I Want, Sirs to Pester Your Ears..."
The next day the Duke goes hunting with his suite. Fiercely a a deer he his companions, and in the growing darkness he falls with his horse into a deep pit - the bear-trap. By pure is strolling through the forest, picking magic herbs. As soon as Satrapold, with numerous bruises, manages to pull himself out of the pit, he a beautiful apparition. In the silvery haze of the forest scenery, embroided with a thousand from the setting sun, a gleaming silhouette of an aetheric fairy resides a full of strange muck. During the first few momemnts Satrapold think that are the first perceptions of his afterlife and he falls into melancholy. But then the beautiful Calamaria meticulously tretas his wounds and he falls hopelessly in love her. Although Calamaria refuses his offer to her home, she accepts an invitation to the castle. Satrapold, thought, does not have the slightest idea who she be...
"A Dark Spreads All Around..."
"That Deer Has Vanished in the Bush..."
In the morning calls Blether, the head groom of the castle's stables, and him to saddle up a new horse. The same day the two of them are to go to Spiritus' inn., the occultist' nest; they do so in so that nobody will recognize them. (This is a new of espionage.)Satrapold is shocked by Calamaria's presence in the public house, where she serves spirits. With the of a magic wand the Captain's consciousness vanishes and his body and are with an emotion completely opposed to the desire to obliterate in the Krkonose slopes.
"My Captain..."
A few later Satrapold, due to his disguise, is attacked by the drunk Atrament, and Blether offers his captain an to imprison Atrament. At the time Blether also tells Satrapold in very plain language who Calamria is. His is quite naturally different from satarpold's ideals and Blether falls into disgrace with his Captain. In the he is slapped thoroughly, and then in the castle the Captain, in an attack of rage, him over a Persion rug.
"By the Misery of I'm Haunted..."
aria concerns the most tragical character of the operetta. It is in its substance a confession of a man of deformed character and morals. Kicked over and humilitated, hurries from 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 a fish. Well - for his whole life he has been accustomed to some master blindly, and so has life lost all meaning for him. This probably is the strongest of the motives for his desperate suicide, committed by jumping the wild Jizera rapids from the Rieger's pn his way from Jelezny Brod, UC. While Blether is himself, Atrament passes the boring time in jail by means of sleep. All of sudden he starts to draw thoughtlessly strange patterns on the wall of his dungeon a broken - medial drawings.A praemurdial spirit reveals to him that the man who poses as the Captain Satrapold is - just treacherous aide Poebeldorf, who devised a scheme with the intention to jewels from the Jilemnice castle and to flee to Cairo with enormous wealth. He was sent to the Jilemnice to prepare everything for the arrival of the Satrapold, who is expected tomorrow.
"Oh, My Sir, Do You Remember When..."
Calamaria pays a visit to (the false one) in the castle 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 with him on a horse, which is already in the stables with the saddle full of stolen jewels.)
"Everything Is My Whim..."
They leave for the dungeons to free Atrament. As soon as the bars are open, Calamaria notices the on the dungeon wall, from which she can clearly read what the Poebeldorf has schemed. She does not to cast the accusation in his face, and he instantly pushes her into the cell and locks the bars. In a he runs into the stables, where his horse is waiting the intending to flee immediately. That very moment he is surprised by the fanfares, the real Satrapol's arrival. Satrapold, having inspected the dungeons, the whole truth and the situation to Poebeldorf's disadvantage - he is put into the prison of Atrament.
"Glory, Hauptmann...!"
The operetta ends with a feast in Spiritus' house; it is revealed Satarpold holds no grudge against spiritism...