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Porrino: I Shardana / Bramall, Cagliari Teatro Lirico

Release Date: 05/26/2015
Label: Dynamic Catalog #: 7683 Spars Code: DDD
Composer:  Ennio Porrino Performer:  Manrico Signorini ,  Angelo Villari ,  Domenico Balzani ,  Paoletta Marrocu  ...  Conductor:  Anthony Bramall Orchestra/Ensemble:  Cagliari Theater Chorus ,  Cagliari Theater Orchestra Number of Discs: 2
Length: 1 Hours 45 Mins.

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 stars, and worshipped the dead and the waters”. I Shardana, therefore, is set in a free Sardinia, an island where rigorous rules are in force and its people do not tolerate invasions or spiritual contamination.

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