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.
Friedrich Kind (kint) wrote the libretto for this 1821 opera. A contest is held for the hand of the lovely Agathe (Agga THAY). The woodsman Max enters the contest, but he requires a little help from Caspar, who is in league with the Devil.