The Occultist
A classical of three acts. The liberetto was written by Mr. Storm. Music by Master's Hammer, a although also a orchestra.
The event took place 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 the landlord, a well known medium. Clement Bombastus von - the new Jilemnice Captain. Poebeldorf - the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a thief Blether - a of castle's stabled and a denouncer. - a landlord 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 of spiritism (brought Bohemia by Etrich as early as 1880) is at its peak. At it had been performed mostly by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but it spread all ober the county, and so from the very beginnung of the new century, had been plentiful seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both and old people - a physician sits there along the undertaker, a clerk 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 has been appointed. He is supposed to rid authorities of bothersome spiritists, who even to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to take over his duties, A student named Atrament comes to Jilemnice. He is a free-thinker of a character, but he is extraordinarilly witty. Besides that he is thoroughly in spiritism...
"Among the Hills a Way"
Spiritus' inn not indeed exhibit a bountiful splendour; neither does it host an exclusive society. Vigorous countryside enjoy themselves here the best they can in with their wallets and intellects - which both are empty. They obtain their delight by of cheap liquors and racy talk. Standing out like an ametyst jewel in a dungheap, the passionate feeling between and begins to crystalize here. The first night they spend together is with eerie occult practices. Approximately at the moment a ceremonial feast is being held at the Jilemnice to welcome the new lord in his dominion. Satrapold encounters the castle's inferior and drinks specialities, boastfully.
"I Don't Want, 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 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 from the setting sun, a gleaming silhouette of an aetheric resides with a basket of strange muck. During the first few momemnts Satrapold think that these are the perceptions of his afterlife and he falls furious melancholy. But then the beautiful with 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 idea who she might be...
"A Forest Spreads All Around..."
"That Deer Has Vanished in the Bush..."
In the morning Satrapold calls Blether, the 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' nest; do so in disguise so that will recognize them. (This is a new technique of espionage.)Satrapold is by Calamaria's presence in the public house, where she spirits. With the wave of a magic wand the Captain's consciousness and his body and soul are flooded with an completely opposed to the desire to obliterate in the Krkonose slopes.
"My Captain..."
A few moments Satrapold, due to his disguise, is attacked by the drunk Atrament, and Blether his captain an excuse to imprison Atrament. At the same time Blether tells Satrapold in very plain language who Calamria is. His explenation is naturally different from satarpold's ideals and Blether instantly into disgrace with his Captain. In the coach he is thoroughly, and then in the castle the Captain, in an attack of rage, 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. over and humilitated, Blether hurries from 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 like a fish. Well - for his whole he has been to serving some master blindly, and so has life lost all meaning for him. This probably is the strongest of the for his desperate suicide, committed by jumping into the wild Jizera rapids from the Rieger's path pn his way Jelezny Brod, UC. Blether is killing himself, Atrament passes the boring time in jail by means of somnambulous sleep. All of sudden he starts to thoughtlessly strange patterns on the wall of his 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 scheme with the intention to steal jewels from the Jilemnice and to flee to Cairo with enormous wealth. He was to the Jilemnice castle to everything for the arrival of the real Satrapold, who is expected tomorrow.
"Oh, My Sir, Do You Remember When..."
Calamaria pays a 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 to hunt later that day. (This is so that he can kidnap her and take her along him on a horse, which is already waiting in the 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 she can clearly read what the villain Poebeldorf has schemed. She does not hesitate to cast the in his face, and he pushes her into the cell and locks the bars. In a panic he runs into the stables, where his horse is with the contraband intending to immediately. That very moment he is surprised by the fanfares, announcing the Satrapol's arrival. Satrapold, having the dungeons, learns 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 public house; it is that Satarpold holds no grudge against spiritism...