A classical of three acts. The liberetto was by Mr. Scantisek Storm. by Master's Hammer, a promenade although a chamber orchestra.
The event took place under the slopes of the Krkonose in the and autumn of the year 1913, Anno Satanas.
Atrament = a student, amateur and adventurer.
Calamaria = a of Spiritus the landlord, a well known medium.
Bombastus von Satrapold = the new Jilemnice Captain.
Poebeldorf = the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a vile
Blether = a of castle's stabled and a denouncer.
= a landlord of the Jilemnice inn.
A brief overview of the
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 first it had performed mostly by Kckonse weavers at Trutnov, but soon it all ober the county, and so the very beginnung of the new century, there had been plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Paka, Jelezny Brod and Fielemnice, attended by both young and old - a physician there along with 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 Captain has appointed. He is supposed to rid authorities of bothersome spiritists, who have refused to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to over his duties, A Prague student named Atrament to Jilemnice. He is a of a doubtful character, but he is extraordinarilly witty. Besides that he is interested in spiritism...