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.
Attila the Hun (c.410-c.453 AD) Attila, King of the Huns, portrait from 1883 Â© Leader of the Hunnic empire, he led the Huns and their massed subject peoples in four massive assaults, attacking the east and west of the Roman empire twice each.