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Opera Bracelets<br />
At the <strong>Met</strong> Opera Shop...<br />
Helping opera fans<br />
stay connected with their<br />
passion through meaningful<br />
handmade jewelry<br />
Remember the Moment
What are<br />
Opera Bracelets?<br />
Opera Bracelets are jewelry specially<br />
designed to evoke the wearer’s favorite<br />
operas.<br />
Each bracelet uses symbolism through<br />
charms, special beads and colors to<br />
represent special opera moments.<br />
Thus the tagline<br />
“Remember the moment”<br />
The idea for opera bracelets was born<br />
while designer Cindy Battisti was<br />
standing in the <strong>Met</strong> Opera Shop...
In 2007, artist Cindy Battisti was on a mission<br />
to check off an item from her bucket list:<br />
Attend a Saturday matinee performance<br />
at the <strong>Met</strong>ropolitan Opera!<br />
“When I listened weekly to the live broadcasts<br />
on the radio, I wanted to be able to say:<br />
‘I was there’<br />
So that February, my husband Andrew and I<br />
attended Die Walkure at the <strong>Met</strong> to celebrate<br />
our wedding anniversary.<br />
Afterwards, I visited the <strong>Met</strong> Opera Shop...
There were many beautiful pieces of jewelry,<br />
but I couldn't help noticing that nothing really<br />
evoked Die Walkure. Right then, I had an<br />
idea...<br />
At home, working with beads, I came up with<br />
my own bracelet as a memento for that experience<br />
of seeing Die Walkure at the <strong>Met</strong>. It was<br />
then that the “light bulb went off!”<br />
I realized bracelets could be made for other<br />
operas and knew that if I was looking for<br />
Fast something forward tangible to a snowy to connect me to my opera<br />
January memories, day probably in 2008... other passionate opera<br />
lovers were also.<br />
By 2010, Opera<br />
Bracelets was open<br />
for business!
<strong>Met</strong> Opera<br />
2017-2018<br />
Season<br />
Opera Bracelets<br />
are now available at the<br />
<strong>Met</strong> Opera Shop<br />
and online at<br />
www.metoperashop.org<br />
Remember the Moment!
Contents<br />
8 Magic Flute<br />
10 La Boheme<br />
12 Madama Butterfly<br />
14 Tosca<br />
16 La Traviata<br />
18 Also at the <strong>Met</strong> Opera Shop<br />
Click on a page number<br />
to go to that page
The Queen of the Night Bracelet is inspired by the<br />
dark mother of Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote.<br />
Dramatic and manipulative, her command to Tamino<br />
to rescue her daughter sets the story of<br />
Die Zauberflote in motion.<br />
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9<br />
Queen of the Night<br />
Inspired by... Die Zauberflote<br />
The Magic Flute<br />
Deep indigo “goldstone” beads with their<br />
inherent sparkle evoke starlight. Deep<br />
violet crystals further symbolize the <strong>night</strong>.<br />
A regal crown charm represents the queen.<br />
The moon is indicated by a luminous glass<br />
sea opal bead and crescent moon charm.<br />
Iridescent colors and star shaped beads<br />
further the magical theme, while a dagger<br />
charm reveals the Queen's true intentions.<br />
Click to see more about this Bracelet
The Mimi and Moonlight bracelet is inspired by the love<br />
duet from Act 1 of La Boheme. Mimi and Rodolfo hunt for<br />
her missing key in the dark. The clouds part, flooding the<br />
room with moonlight and illuminating Mimi's beauty. She<br />
and Rodolfo fall instantly in love.<br />
10
Mimi and Moonlight<br />
Inspired by... La Boheme<br />
Blue crystals set the scene of the deep and beautiful<br />
winter’s <strong>night</strong>. Clear crystals evoke snowflakes and<br />
glass stars symbolize starlight. The full moon is a luminous<br />
glass “sea opal”. Glass flowers represent<br />
Mimi's words about flowers in her aria, " Mi chiamano<br />
Mimi". Glass hearts evoke love. The key charm represents<br />
the lost key Rodolfo finds, while the angel wing<br />
heart symbolizes Mimi’s pure love and sad fate. A candle<br />
charm indicates the reason Mimi has stopped at<br />
Rodolfo's door- it has blown out in a draft...<br />
Click to see more<br />
about this bracelet<br />
11
The Un bel dì Bracelet is inspired by the character<br />
of Cio Cio San from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.<br />
Former geisha Butterfly has faith that her love will<br />
return. She sings of how she will see him returning<br />
to her from afar. We want to believe with her and<br />
knowing we cannot is all the more heartbreaking.<br />
12
13<br />
Un bel di<br />
Inspired by... Madama Butterfly<br />
Blue and pink beads evoke Butterfly's view of<br />
Nagasaki harbor framed by blossoming cherry<br />
trees. Glass hearts, flowers and butterflies further<br />
symbolize her gathering flowers to fill the house<br />
when she hears her love is near. Charms include<br />
Butterfly (geisha) and Pinkerton's ship. A heart<br />
charm with a tiny growing dot motif symbolizes<br />
Butterfly's vision of watching Pinkerton walking<br />
to her from the harbor.<br />
Click to see more about<br />
this bracelet
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E lucevan le stelle<br />
Inspired by... Tosca<br />
Deep blue beads and iridescent stars evoke Mario and<br />
Tosca's starlit <strong>night</strong>s of love, further represented by<br />
heart and star charms. A watery tear drop encasing a<br />
rosebud symbolizes Mario's grief at the loss of his life<br />
when it had only just begun to flower.<br />
Click to see more about this bracelet
15<br />
Tosca’s Kiss<br />
Inspired by... Tosca<br />
Beads of ruby and garnet red evoke both Tosca's loving<br />
heart and the violence that results when she is put into<br />
an impossible situation. Charms on the bracelet<br />
represent her love (heart), her actions (knife) and the<br />
aria " o dolci mani" (heart in hand).<br />
Click to see more about this bracelet
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19 17<br />
Violetta<br />
Inspired by... La Traviata<br />
Glass pearls, hearts and flowers reflect Violetta's<br />
delicacy, while hints of purple symbolize her name.<br />
A camellia charm signifies the flower she gives<br />
Alfredo at the beginning of their love affair and a<br />
cameo is the portrait that she gives him to<br />
remember her by upon her death. A large heart<br />
with purple stones represents "love"which is<br />
engraved on the back in English, French<br />
(the setting of the opera) and Italian<br />
(the language of the opera).<br />
Click to see more about this<br />
bracelet
18<br />
Also at The <strong>Met</strong> Opera Shop...<br />
The Ring Cycle<br />
Charm Bracelet
19<br />
This elegant bracelet commemorates Wagner's<br />
opera epic ,the Ring of the Nibelung. Composed of<br />
sparkling gold colored glass beads, meaningful<br />
charms evoke important moments and characters of<br />
the Ring Cycle operas:<br />
The Rhinemaidens (Mermaid), Valhalla (Castle),<br />
Wintersturme (Tree), Ride of the Valkyries (Helmet),<br />
Forging Song (Sword), Fafner (Dragon), Siegfried<br />
and Brunnhilde (Hearts) and The Ring<br />
Click to see more about this bracelet
Visit<br />
The <strong>Met</strong> Opera Shop or<br />
www.metoperashop.org<br />
to see<br />
Opera Bracelets<br />
and many other opera<br />
gifts and mementos<br />
Remember the Moment
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