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Attila

• Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Italian
• Libretto Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave. Solera abandoned the libretto after completing two acts and leaving a sketch of act 3. Piave completed act 3, with some changes agreed upon with Verdi.
• Based on the tragedy Attila, König der Hunnen by Zacharias Werner.
• Performed also with the title: Gli Unni e i Romani.
• Time: Mid-5th century. Place: Aquileia, the Adriatic lagoons, and near Rome.
• Premiere Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 17 March 1846
  
  
  

Raphael's 'The Meeting between Pope Leo and Attila' depicts Leo, escorted by Saint Peter and Saint Paul, meeting with the Hun king outside Rome.

• Characters:
  • Attila, King of the Huns, bass
    • HP Attila the Hun, "Scourge of God", King of the Huns
    • Ignazio Marini sang in the first premiere 17 March 1846
    • Gaetano Ferri
    • Marco Arati
    • Antonio "Selva" Scremin
    • Boris Christoff
    • Cesare Siepi
    • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    • Ruggero Raimondi
  • Uldino, a Breton slave of Attila's, tenor
    • Ettore Profili sang in the first premiere
    • Napoleone Moriani
    • Raffaele Angelo Agostino Mirate
    • Gaetano Fraschini
    • Lodovico Graziani
    • Leopoldo Signoretti
    • Beniamino Samuele Benedetto Gigli
    • Carlo Cossutta
  • Odabella, daughter of the Lord of Aquileia, soprano
    • Sophie Löwe sang in the first premiere 17 March 1846
    • Eugenia Tadolini
    • Teresa Brambilla
    • Marietta Gazzaniga
    • Marcella Lotti della Santa
    • Valentina Bartolomasi
    • Beverly Sills
    • Ángeles Gulín
  • Ezio, a Roman General, baritone
    • HP Flavius Aetius
    • Natale Costantini sang in the first premiere
    • Antonio Cotogni ao. in Zara
    • Piero Cappuccilli
    • Ingvar Wixell
    • Renato Bruson
    • Leo Nucci
  • Foresto, a Tribune of Aquileia, tenor
    • Carlo Guasco sang in the first premiere 17 March 1846
    • Napoleone Moriani Milano 1846
    • Carlo Bergonzi
  • Leone, bass
    • HP Pope Leo I, Saint Leo the Great
    • Giuseppe Romanelli sang in the first premiere
    • Antonio "Selva" Scremin
• Conductors:
  • Gaetano Mares conducted in the first premiere.17 March 1846
  • Eugenio Cavallini
  • Luigi Fabbrica
  • Carlo Maria Giulini
  • Lamberto Gardelli
  • Riccardo Muti
  • Gianluigi Gelmetti
• Stage directors:
  • Giancarlo Del Monaco (Budapest)
    
    
    

Last scene, as performed at Her Majesty's Theatre in London in 1848

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