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.
Primarily a court composer, Purcell also provided music for the stage. His best-known work is the opera Dido & Aeneas (1689). Composed for a performance at a girlsâ school, it is an anomaly among Baroque operas: in English, less than an hour long, and a true tragedy that ends with the death of Queen Dido.