Léon Uhl

Léon Uhl
Born	19 May 1889 Paris
Died	Unknown Unknown
Occupation(s)	Poet Playwright Librettist

Léon Uhl (19 May 1889 in Paris – ? ) was a 20th-century French poet, playwright and opera librettist.

Léon Uhl: Postcard of the poet as Harlequin

Works

Operettas

• 1926: La Dernière valse, 5 May, three-act operetta, French adaptation of Der letzte Walzer on a music by Oscar Straus.
• 1927: La Teresina, 4 May
• 1928: La Rose de Stamboul, 26 January
• 1929: Une seule nuit, 9 March
• 1930: La Belle inconnue, 1 January
• 1932: Mariage à Hollywood, 2 March, operetta in 4 tableaux, French adaptation of Hochzeit in Hollywood on a music by Oscar Straus.
• 1935: Lady Poum, 23 February, French adaptation of Die Erte Beste
• Dante, in collaboration with Jean Sardou at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux.
• Jeanne de France, mystère lyrique in 4 acts and 8 tableaux, poem by Léon Uhl, music by Jean Nouguès (operas composer born in Bordeaux in 1875), Orléans, 5–8 May 1929, Gaîté Lyrique, 10 May 1931

Editions

• 1950: La Dernière Valse, three-act operetta, libretto by Léon Uhl and Jean Marietti, music by Oscar Straus, M. Eschig
• 1937: La Prière sur le tombeau, preface by Léon Frapié, Chanth
• 1927: Un théâtre national en France. Paul Fort et les chroniques de France, Mercure de France, 15 September
• 1927: La Teresina, three-act operetta, music by Oscar Straus, M. Eschig

Theatre

Léon Uhl: Autographed photo of the poet to his sister

• Alceste au désert
• Le Mouchoir
• La Miniature
• Amoureuses
• L'Œillet rouge
• Le Sommeil de Racine, one-act play in verse, Revue française, 8 February 1925; Paris, Odéon, 22 December 1924
• La Parade de Tabarin
• Le Nid dans l'orage
• La Première Nuit de Don Juan
• Arlequin, rival de Don Juan, one-act play, Théâtre Athéna, 22 April 1931

Poetry

• 1927: Odyl, with a présentation by Paul Fort, Eugène Figuière

Sources

• Alphonse Marius Gossez, Les Poètes du XXe, Eugène Figuière, 1929, p. 253

External links

• Cent ans de Mise en scène
• Léon Uhl on data.bnf.fr
• Léon Uhl on ECMF (1918–1944