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This aria concerns the most tragical character of the operetta. It is |
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in its substance a confession of a man of deformed character and dicey |
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morals. Kicked over and humilitated, Blether hurries from the castle |
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to Spiritus' inn to offer his services to the spiritists. Since they |
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have already known him for some time, he leaves misunderstood for |
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Jelezny Brod, where he drinks like a fish. Well - for his whole life |
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he has been accustomed to serving some master blindly, and so has life |
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suddenly lost all meaning for him. This probably is the strongest of |
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the motives for his desperate suicide, committed by jumping into the |
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wild Jizera rapids from the Rieger's path pn his way from Jelezny |
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Brod, UC. |
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While Blether is killing himself, Atrament passes the boring time in |
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jail by means of somnambulous sleep. All of sudden he starts to draw |
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thoughtlessly strange patterns on the wall of his dungeon with a |
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broken brick - medial drawings. A praemurdial spirit reveals to him |
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that the man who poses as the Captain Satrapold is - just Satrapold's |
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treacherous aide Poebeldorf, who devised a vile scheme with the |
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intention to steal jewels from the Jilemnice castle and to flee to |
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Cairo with enormous wealth. He was sent to the Jilemnice castle to |
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prepare everything for the arrival of the real Satrapold, who is |
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expected |
