A classical of three acts. The liberetto was by Mr. Scantisek Storm. Music by Hammer, a although also a chamber orchestra.
The event took under the slopes of the Krkonose mountains in the summer and autumn of the 1913, Anno Satanas.
Atrament = a student, occultist and adventurer.
Calamaria = a daughter of the landlord, a well known medium.
Clement von Satrapold = the new Jilemnice Captain.
= the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a vile thief
Blether = a groom of castle's and a denouncer.
= a landlord of the Jilemnice inn.
A brief of the liberetto:
We have emerged now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, in the when the popularity of spiritism (brought Bohemia by Etrich as early as 1880) is at its peak. At first it had been mostly by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but it spread all ober the county, and so from the very of the new century, there had been plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both young and old - 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 Captain 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 Prague student Atrament comes to Jilemnice. He is a free-thinker of a doubtful character, but he is witty. that he is thoroughly interested in spiritism...