Porrino: I Shardana

Manrico Signorini (Gonnario), Angelo Villari (Torbeno), Gianpiero Ruggeri (Orzocco), Domenico Balzani (Norace), Paoletta Marrocu (Bèrbera Jonia), Alessandra Palomba (Nibatta), Gabriele Mangione (Perdu), Enrico Zara (Sardinian Shephard/The lookout/Second Warrior), Nicola Ravarino Guagenti (A Voice/First...

For all the drama of its tale of betrayal, filicide and forbidden love, the music eschews histrionics for something altogether more domestic in focus and feeling. The overall atmosphere is one... — Opera, October 2015 More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2015
Catalogue No: 57683
Label: Dynamic

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Porrino: I Shardana

Sung in Italian. World première on Blu-ray
Manrico Signorini (Gonnario), Angelo Villari (Torbeno), Gianpiero Ruggeri (Orzocco), Domenico Balzani (Norace), Paoletta Marrocu (Bèrbera Jonia), Alessandra Palomba (Nibatta), Gabriele Mangione (Perdu), Enrico Zara (Sardinian Shephard/The lookout/Second Warrior), Nicola Ravarino Guagenti (A Voice/First Warrior) & Elena Ledda (Special guest)
Orchestra and Chorus of Fondazione Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
Anthony Bramall (conductor) & Davide Livermore (director)

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Costume designer Marco Nateri

Light designer Loïc François Hamelin

When we examine the score of I Shardana by Ennio Porrino, we easily understand what a central role this opera played in the artistic development of the composer. The first drafts of it date from 1934-35, but the work only debuted years later, on 21st March 1959, at the San Carlo theatre in Naples, with its final title of 'I Shardana' and Porrino himself conducting. The composer would die suddenly a few months later.

Porrino’s drama mirrors a period in archaeology 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.

Video Format/ Aspect ratio: 1 BD 50 - 16:9

Audio Format: PCM 2.0 - DTS HD master 5.0

Subtitles: Fre, Eng, Ger, Ita, Jap, Kor

Region code: 0 – All regions

Recorded: September, 2013 – Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Italy

Duration: 109 min

Notes: English, Italian

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Orchestra and Chorus of Fondazione Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Anthony Bramall (conductor) & Davide Livermore (director)

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October 2015

For all the drama of its tale of betrayal, filicide and forbidden love, the music eschews histrionics for something altogether more domestic in focus and feeling. The overall atmosphere is one of lowering, pent-up emotion, deftly captured here by the conductor Anthony Bramall. The music is characterized by leavening woodwinds, scaled-back brass, portentous, rolling percussion, high, other-worldly strings and peppery piano.

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