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Giuseppe Verdy: Attila, Opéra En 3 Actes / Lyrical drama in a prologue and three acts / TEATRO ALLA SCALA / Choir and Orchestra of the Milan Scala / Conductor: Riccardo Muti / DVD
Format: PAL
Run time: 119 Minutes
UPC: 9120005650435
- Product Dimensions : 5.59 x 0.2 x 4.92 inches; 3.53 Ounces
- Media Format : DVD
- Number of discs : 1
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 17 March 1846.
Ezio's act 2 aria of heroic resolution "È gettata la mia sorte" (My lot is cast, I am prepared for any warfare) is a fine example of a characteristic Verdian genre, and it achieved fame in its own time with audiences in the context of the adoption of a liberal constitution by Ferdinand II. Other contemporary comment praised the work as suitable for the "political education of the people", while, in contrast, others criticised the opera as "Teutonic" in nature.
