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“The greatest Italian opera of this second post-war” (Felix Karlinger). A 20th Century grand opera, I Shardana (The Sherden, an ancient Sea-people) takes place in Sardinia in the Nuragic era, around 3000 years ago. A great teamwork of director Davide Livermore, with the sets of GiòForma production design, D-WOK videodesign, Marco Nateri (Costume designer) and Loic Hamelin (Light designer); with dancers, mimes, video mapping and slow motion shootings, all at once for a monumental show. Available also on Bluray (57683) and CD (CDS 7683). Porrino’s drama mirrors a period in archeology when Nuragic Sardinia was discussed even in non-specialist circles, with the island’s bronze statuettes and megaliths recalling a primeval society at the origins of European civilization. Hutalabì, indeed, is the ancient war cry of Sardinian horsemen, and the opera speaks of times when – as Porrino specifies in the score – shepherds were warriors and judges, “when man did not believe in one God but in the power of the
