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French poet, playwright and opera librettist
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Léon Uhl
Born19 May 1889
Paris
DiedUnknown
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

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