The Occultist
A classical operetta of acts. The liberetto was written by Mr. Storm. Music by Hammer, a promenade also a chamber 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 Spiritus the landlord, a known medium. Bombastus von Satrapold - the new Jilemnice Captain. Poebeldorf - the aide-de-camp, and a vile thief Blether - a of castle's stabled and a denouncer. Spiritus - a of the Jilemnice inn.
A brief overview of the
We emerged now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, therefore in the period when the popularity of spiritism (brought by Etrich 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 spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both and old people - a physician sits there along with the undertaker, a by the side of a blacksmith, a thief together a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is naturally being neglected, and the demoralized. is why the new Jilemnice Captain has been appointed. He is supposed to rid of bothersome spiritists, who have even refused to pay taxes. On the day 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 that he is interested in spiritism...
"Among the Hills a Way"
Spiritus' inn does not indeed exhibit a bountiful splendour; does it host an exclusive society. Vigorous people enjoy themselves here the best can in accord with their 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 passionate feeling Atrament and Calamaria begins to crystalize here. The night they spend together is with eerie occult practices. Approximately at the same moment a ceremonial feast is being at the Jilemnice castle to welcome the new 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 his suite. Fiercely chasing a a deer he loses his companions, and in the darkness he falls with his horse into a deep pit - the bear-trap. By chance Calamaria is through the forest, picking magic herbs. As soon as Satrapold, covered with numerous bruises, manages to himself out of the pit, he sees a apparition. In the silvery of the forest scenery, embroided with a thousand rays from the setting sun, a gleaming silhouette of an aetheric fairy resides a basket full of muck. During the first few momemnts Satrapold think these are the first of his afterlife and he falls into furious melancholy. But then the beautiful with Calamaria meticulously his wounds and he falls hopelessly in love 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 Dark Spreads 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 will recognize them. (This is a new technique of espionage.)Satrapold is by Calamaria's presence in the public house, where she serves spirits. the wave of a magic wand the Captain's consciousness vanishes and his body and are flooded with an emotion completely to the desire to obliterate in the Krkonose slopes.
"My Captain..."
A few moments later Satrapold, due to his disguise, is by the drunk Atrament, and Blether offers his an excuse to imprison Atrament. At the time Blether also tells Satrapold in very plain who Calamria is. His explenation is quite naturally different from satarpold's ideals and Blether instantly falls into disgrace his Captain. In the coach he is thoroughly, and then in the castle the Captain, in an attack of rage, kicks him over a rug.
"By the of Fate I'm Haunted..."
aria concerns the most tragical character of the operetta. It is in its substance a confession of a man of character and dicey morals. Kicked over and humilitated, Blether hurries the castle to Spiritus' inn to offer his services to the spiritists. Since have already known him for time, he leaves misunderstood for Jelezny Brod, where he drinks like a fish. Well - for his whole 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 into the wild Jizera rapids the Rieger's path pn his way from 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 on the wall of his dungeon with a broken brick - drawings.A praemurdial spirit reveals to him that the man who poses as the Captain Satrapold is - Satrapold's treacherous aide Poebeldorf, who devised a vile with the intention to steal jewels the Jilemnice castle and to flee to Cairo with enormous wealth. He was to the Jilemnice castle 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 that she will go with Poebeldorf to hunt later that day. (This is so he can kidnap her and take her along with him on a horse, which is already waiting in the stables the saddle full 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 pushes her into the cell and locks the bars. In a he runs into the stables, where his horse is waiting the contraband intending to immediately. That very moment he is surprised by the fanfares, the real 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 a feast in Spiritus' public house; it is revealed Satarpold holds no grudge against spiritism...