I Shardana is a 1949 opera by Sardinian composer Ennio Porrino which was premiered in 1959 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples under Gastone Limarilli and Piero Guelfi. The libretto by the composer was inspired by Bronze Age stone towers, megalithic nuraghes, found across Sardinia.[1]
-One theory made these Corsican statue-menhirs the work of Corsican warriors fighting against an invasion of Sardinian "Shardana" during the late second millennium BC. The Shardana are mentioned in Egyptian accounts of the reign of Rameses III as one of the Sea Peoples who invaded Egypt in the twelfth century BC. There is, however, no firm connection, despite the similarity of name, between the Shardana of Egyptian re- cords and the island of Sardinia.