The Jilemnice
A operetta of three acts. The was written by Mr. Scantisek Storm. Music by Master's Hammer, a although also a orchestra.
The took place under the slopes of the Krkonose mountains in the summer and autumn of the year 1913, Satanas.
Atrament - a student, occultist and adventurer. Calamaria - a daughter of the landlord, a well known medium. Clement von Satrapold - the new Jilemnice Captain. Poebeldorf - the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a vile - a groom of castle's stabled and a denouncer. Spiritus - a 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 spiritism (brought Bohemia by as early as 1880) is at its peak. At first it had performed by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but soon it spread all ober the county, and so the very beginnung of the new century, there had plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both young and old people - a 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 naturally neglected, and the demoralized. That is why the new Jilemnice has been 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 free-thinker of a doubtful character, but he is witty. Besides that he is interested in spiritism...
"Among the Hills a Way"
Spiritus' inn does not indeed exhibit a bountiful neither it host an exclusive society. Vigorous countryside people enjoy themselves here the best can in accord with their wallets and intellects - which are half empty. They obtain their delight by means of cheap liquors and talk. Standing out like an ametyst in a dungheap, the passionate feeling between Atrament and Calamaria begins to crystalize here. The night they spend together is filled with eerie practices. Approximately at the moment a ceremonial feast is being held at the Jilemnice castle to 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 day the Duke goes hunting with his suite. Fiercely chasing a a deer he loses his companions, and in the growing he falls with his horse into a pit - the bear-trap. By pure chance Calamaria is strolling the forest, picking magic herbs. As soon as Satrapold, covered with bruises, manages to pull himself out of the pit, he sees a apparition. In the silvery haze of the forest scenery, embroided with a thousand rays the setting sun, a gleaming silhouette of an aetheric fairy with a basket of strange muck. During the first few Satrapold think 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 with her. Although Calamaria refuses his to walk her home, she accepts an invitation 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 Satrapold Blether, the head groom of the castle's stables, and tells him to up a new horse. The same 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 technique of espionage.)Satrapold is shocked by presence in the public house, where she serves spirits. With the of a magic wand the Captain's consciousness vanishes and his and soul are flooded an emotion completely opposed to the desire to spiritism in the Krkonose slopes.
"My Captain..."
A few later Satrapold, due to his disguise, is attacked by the drunk Atrament, and Blether offers his an excuse to imprison Atrament. At the same time Blether also tells Satrapold in plain who Calamria is. His explenation is quite naturally different from ideals and Blether instantly falls into disgrace with his Captain. In the coach he is slapped thoroughly, and in the the Captain, in an attack of rage, kicks him over a Persion rug.
"By the of Fate I'm Haunted..."
This aria concerns the most tragical of the operetta. It is in its a confession of a man of deformed character and dicey morals. Kicked over and humilitated, Blether from the castle to Spiritus' inn to offer his services to the spiritists. they have already known him for some time, he leaves for Jelezny Brod, where he drinks like a fish. Well - for his whole he has been accustomed to serving master 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 wild Jizera rapids from the path pn his way from Jelezny Brod, UC. While Blether is killing himself, Atrament the boring time in jail by means of somnambulous sleep. All of he starts to draw strange patterns on the wall of his dungeon with a broken brick - medial drawings.A spirit reveals to him that the man who poses as the Captain Satrapold is - just aide Poebeldorf, who devised a vile scheme with the intention to steal jewels from the 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 just tomorrow.
"Oh, My Precious Sir, Do You When..."
Calamaria a visit to Satrapold (the false one) in the castle and after many minutes of Poebeldorf, he agrees to free Atrament, but on the condition that she will go with Poebeldorf to later that day. (This is so that he can kidnap her and take her along him on a horse, which is waiting in the stables with the saddle bags full of jewels.)
"Everything Is My Whim..."
They for the castle dungeons to free Atrament. As soon as the bars are open, Calamaria notices the drawings on the wall, from which she can clearly read what the villain 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 into the stables, where his horse is with the contraband to flee immediately. That very moment he is surprised by the fanfares, announcing the Satrapol's arrival. Satrapold, inspected the dungeons, learns the whole truth and the situation turns to disadvantage - he is put into the prison of Atrament.
"Glory, Hauptmann...!"
The operetta ends with a in Spiritus' public house; it is revealed that Satarpold holds no grudge spiritism...