A classical of three acts. The was written by Mr. Scantisek Storm. by Master's Hammer, a promenade also a chamber orchestra.
The event took place under the slopes of the mountains in the and autumn of the year 1913, Anno Satanas.
Atrament = a student, amateur and adventurer.
= a daughter of Spiritus the landlord, a well known medium.
Clement Bombastus von Satrapold = the new Captain.
Poebeldorf = the Captain's aide-de-camp, and a thief
= a groom of castle's stabled and a denouncer.
Spiritus = a landlord of the inn.
A brief of the liberetto:
We have emerged now in Jilemnice in the year 1913, and, in the period when the popularity of spiritism (brought Bohemia by as early as 1880) is at its peak. At first it had been mostly by Kckonse at Trutnov, but soon it spread all ober the county, and so the very beginnung of the new century, there had been plentiful spiritistic seances at Semily, Nova Paka, Brod and Fielemnice, by both young and old people - a physician sits there along with the undertaker, a by the side of a blacksmith, a together with a gendarme. The farming, and cosequently, all of the economy is naturally being neglected, and the demoralized. That is why the new Jilemnice has been appointed. He is supposed to rid authorities of bothersome spiritists, who even refused to pay taxes. On the day Captain is due to over his duties, A Prague student Atrament comes to Jilemnice. He is a of a doubtful character, but he is extraordinarilly witty. Besides that he is interested in spiritism...