| Le dernier sorcier | |
|---|---|
| Chamber opera by Pauline Viardot | |
 The composer c. 1853 | |
| Translation | The Last Sorcerer |
| Other title | Der letzte Zauberer |
| Librettist | Ivan Turgenev |
| Language | French |
| Premiere | 8 April 1869 (in German) Court Theatre, Weimar |
Le dernier sorcier (The Last Sorcerer) is a chamber opera in two acts with music composed by Pauline Viardot to a French libretto by Ivan Turgenev. It was first performed privately on 20 September 1867 at the Villa Turgenev in Baden-Baden and received its first public performance at the Court Theatre in Weimar on 8 April 1869 (in German translation as Der letzte Zauberer). The story revolves around Krakamiche, an old and once-powerful sorcerer whose presence in the woods has upset the elves living there, and a romance between the sorcerer's daughter Stella and Prince Lelio, whose marriage comes about through the intervention of a Queen of the Elves.
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