The main aim of this paper is to prove that the wave front set of $$a^w(x,D)u$$
a
w
(
x
,
D
)
u
, i.e. the action of the Weyl operator with symbol a on u, is contained in the wave front set of u and in the conic support of a in spaces of $$\omega $$
ω
-tempered ultradistributions in the Beurling setting for adequate symbols of ultradifferentiable type. These symbols are not restricted to have order zero. To do so, we prove an almost diagonalization theorem on Weyl operators. Furthermore, an almost diagonalization theorem involving time-frequency analysis leads to additional applications, such as invertibility of pseudodifferential operators or boundedness of them in modulation spaces with exponential growth.