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.
Orffâs masterpiece greatly appealed to the Nazi regime, to whom its rhythms, as one critic put it, were reminiscent of the âstamping columns of the Third Reichâ. When Carmina Burana was first performed at La Scala, in 1942, it was as a showpiece for fascist values. Comments. 1  Read more about Orff.