The Jilemnice
A classical operetta of acts. The liberetto was written by Mr. Storm. by Master's Hammer, a promenade although also a orchestra.
The event took place under the slopes of the mountains in the summer and of the year 1913, Anno Satanas.
Atrament - a student, occultist and adventurer. Calamaria - a daughter of Spiritus the landlord, a well 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 landlord of the inn.
A overview of the liberetto:
We have now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, therefore in the period when the popularity of (brought Bohemia by Etrich as early as 1880) is at its peak. At first it had performed mostly by weavers at Trutnov, but soon it spread all ober the county, and so from the very of the new century, there had plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, by both young and old people - a physician sits there with the undertaker, a clerk by the side of a blacksmith, a thief together a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the is quite naturally being neglected, and the demoralized. That is why the new Jilemnice Captain has appointed. He is supposed to rid of bothersome spiritists, who have even refused to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to 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 indeed a bountiful splendour; neither it host an exclusive society. Vigorous countryside people enjoy themselves here the best they can in accord with their and intellects - which both are empty. They obtain their delight by means of cheap liquors and racy talk. out like an ametyst jewel in a dungheap, the passionate feeling between and Calamaria begins to here. The first night they spend together is filled with eerie practices. Approximately at the same moment a ceremonial feast is held at the Jilemnice castle to welcome the new in his dominion. Satrapold encounters the castle's and drinks liquor specialities, boastfully.
"I Don't Want, Sirs to Pester Ears..."
The next day the Duke goes hunting with his suite. Fiercely 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 through the forest, magic herbs. As soon as Satrapold, covered numerous bruises, manages to pull himself out of the pit, he sees a beautiful apparition. In the haze of the scenery, embroided with a thousand rays from the sun, a gleaming silhouette of an aetheric fairy resides with a basket of strange muck. During the first few momemnts Satrapold think that these are the perceptions of his afterlife and he into furious melancholy. But then the beautiful with Calamaria meticulously his wounds and he falls hopelessly in love with her. Calamaria refuses his to walk her home, she accepts an invitation to the castle. Satrapold, thought, does not the slightest idea who she might be...
"A Dark Spreads All Around..."
"That Magnificent Deer Has in the Bush..."
In the Satrapold calls 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 going to go to Spiritus' inn., the occultist' they do so in disguise so that nobody will them. (This is a new technique of espionage.)Satrapold is by Calamaria's presence in the public house, where she serves spirits. With the of a magic wand the consciousness vanishes and his body and soul are flooded with an emotion completely 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 offers his captain an excuse to imprison Atrament. At the time Blether also tells Satrapold in very plain language who Calamria is. His explenation is quite naturally satarpold's 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 substance a confession of a man of deformed and dicey morals. Kicked over and humilitated, Blether hurries the castle to Spiritus' inn to offer his to the spiritists. Since they have already 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 master blindly, and so has suddenly lost all meaning for him. This probably is the 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 time in jail by means of somnambulous sleep. All of he starts to draw thoughtlessly patterns on the wall of his dungeon with a broken brick - medial drawings.A praemurdial spirit to him the man who poses as the Captain Satrapold is - just 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 expected tomorrow.
"Oh, My Sir, Do You Remember When..."
Calamaria pays a visit to Satrapold (the false one) in the and many minutes of cajoling Poebeldorf, he agrees to free Atrament, but on the condition that she will go Poebeldorf to hunt later that day. (This is so that he can kidnap her and her along with him on a horse, which is already waiting in the 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 notices the on the dungeon wall, from which she can read what the villain Poebeldorf has schemed. She does not to cast 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 is waiting with the intending to flee immediately. That very moment he is surprised by the fanfares, announcing the real arrival. Satrapold, inspected the dungeons, learns the whole truth and the situation to Poebeldorf's disadvantage - he is put into the prison of Atrament.
"Glory, Hauptmann...!"
The ends with a feast in Spiritus' public house; it is revealed Satarpold holds no grudge against spiritism...