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, König der Hunnen (Attila, King of the Huns) by Zacharias Werner. The opera received its first performance at La Fenice in Venice on March 17, 1846. This 1970 live recording stars Ruggero Raimondi, Antonietta Stella, Giangiacomo Guelfi and Gianfranco Cecchele. Riccardo Muti conducts.