Verdi ATTILA Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Conductor Riccardo Muti Riccardo Muti conducts a fine cast in the powerful and atmospheric 1991 production of Verdis ninth opera, whose story of the heroic tussle between Ezio, a Roman general, and Attila, the Nordic invader was written for the 1846 Teatro la Fenice season and premiered there to huge acclaim. Sung in Italian with English subtitles