Update: Jonas Salk said: If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end.
Attila (opera) Attila is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the 1809 play Attila, KÃ¶nig der Hunnen (Attila, King of the Huns) by Zacharias Werner. The opera received its first performance at La Fenice in Venice on 17 March 1846.
Hasmik Papian plays Odabella, the woman who brings down a conqueror, in Verdi's Attila. At first glance, Verdi's Attila, an opera about Attila the Hun, might seem like a theatrical relative of Springtime for Hitler, the play within a play that Mel Brooks created for The Producers.