The Occultist
A classical of three acts. The liberetto was written by Mr. Storm. by Master's Hammer, a promenade although also a orchestra.
The event took place under the of the Krkonose 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 Bombastus von Satrapold - the new Captain. Poebeldorf - the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a thief Blether - a groom of stabled and a denouncer. Spiritus - a of the Jilemnice inn.
A brief of the liberetto:
We emerged now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, therefore in the period when the popularity of spiritism (brought by Etrich as early as 1880) is at its peak. At it had been performed mostly by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but soon it all ober the county, and so from the very of the new century, there had been plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Jelezny and Fielemnice, by both young and old people - a physician sits there along with the undertaker, a clerk by the of a blacksmith, a together with 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 to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to take over his duties, A Prague student Atrament 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 bountiful neither does it host an exclusive society. Vigorous people enjoy themselves here the best they can in accord with wallets and - which both 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 night they spend together is filled with occult practices. at the same moment a ceremonial feast is being held at the castle to welcome the new lord in his dominion. encounters the castle's inferior and drinks liquor 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 darkness he 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 with bruises, manages to pull himself out of the pit, he a beautiful apparition. In the silvery haze of the scenery, embroided with a thousand rays from the setting sun, a silhouette of an aetheric fairy resides with a full of strange muck. During the few momemnts Satrapold think that these are the first perceptions of his afterlife and he into furious melancholy. But then the beautiful with Calamaria meticulously tretas his 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 Forest All Around..."
"That Deer Has Vanished in the Bush..."
In the morning Satrapold calls Blether, the head groom of the stables, and tells him to saddle up a new horse. The day the two of them are going to go to inn., the occultist' nest; they do so in disguise so that nobody will them. (This is a new technique of espionage.)Satrapold is shocked by Calamaria's 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 emotion opposed to the desire to obliterate in the Krkonose slopes.
"My Captain..."
A few later Satrapold, due to his disguise, is attacked by the Atrament, and Blether 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 from satarpold's and Blether instantly falls into disgrace with his Captain. In the coach he is slapped thoroughly, and in the castle the Captain, in an attack of rage, kicks him over a rug.
"By the Misery of I'm Haunted..."
This aria concerns the most tragical of the operetta. It is in its substance a of a man of deformed character and dicey morals. Kicked over and humilitated, Blether hurries from the to Spiritus' inn to his services to the spiritists. Since they have already known him for some time, he 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 suddenly lost all meaning for him. probably 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 Blether is killing himself, Atrament passes the boring in jail by of somnambulous sleep. All of sudden he starts to draw thoughtlessly patterns on the wall of his dungeon with a broken brick - medial drawings.A praemurdial spirit to him that the man who poses as the Captain Satrapold is - just 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 sent to the Jilemnice to prepare 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 cajoling Poebeldorf, he 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 with him on a horse, which is already waiting in the stables the saddle full of stolen jewels.)
"Everything Is My Whim..."
They leave for the castle dungeons to free Atrament. As as the bars are open, Calamaria notices the drawings on the 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 pushes her the cell and locks the bars. In a panic he into the stables, where his horse is waiting with the contraband intending to flee immediately. That moment he is by the fanfares, announcing the real Satrapol's arrival. Satrapold, having inspected the dungeons, the whole truth and the situation turns to disadvantage - he is put into the prison of Atrament.
"Glory, Hauptmann...!"
The operetta with a feast in Spiritus' public house; it is revealed that Satarpold holds no against spiritism...