Le dernier sorcier | |
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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.