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
Sources Alphonse Marius Gossez, Les Poètes du XXe, Eugène Figuière, 1929, p. 253
External links Cent ans de Mise en scène Léon Uhl on Léon Uhl on ECMF (1918–1944