Léon Uhl

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

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

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