A classical of three acts. The liberetto was written by Mr. Storm. Music by Hammer, a promenade also a chamber orchestra.
The event took place under the slopes of the Krkonose in the summer and autumn of the 1913, Anno Satanas.
Atrament = a student, amateur and adventurer.
Calamaria = a daughter of Spiritus the landlord, a well 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.
Spiritus = a of the Jilemnice inn.
A brief of the liberetto:
We have emerged now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, in the period the popularity of spiritism (brought Bohemia by Etrich as as 1880) is at its peak. At first 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 plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both young and old people - a 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 quite naturally neglected, and the demoralized. That is why the new Captain has been appointed. He is supposed to rid authorities of bothersome spiritists, who have refused to pay taxes. On the day is due to take over his duties, A Prague 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...