The venomous police chief Scarpia is on the verge of finding the fugitive. Cavaradossi engages in clandestine activities because he is trying to save the life of an escaped political prisoner. She believes that he has fallen in love with another woman, but actually, her suspicions are unfounded. Her paramour is the painter Mario Cavaradossi.
The heroine of the piece is the pious singer Floria Tosca. The opera is set during the Napoleonic era, a full century before Puccini’s time, and the protagonists’ problems are not average in any sense. The characters in “Tosca,” however, are not contemporary people. As scholar William Schoell writes, verismo operas strove to capture “the average contemporary man and woman and their problems.” Thus, they became interested in everyday life. When the opera premiered in 1900, many Italian composers were tired of writing of kings and queens, gods and nymphs.
Tiny cat’s eye beads whimsically evoke Tosca's demand that Mario change his painted Mary Magdalene’s eyes from blue to black.A green heart represents Tosca’s jealousy.A black disc and black heart indicate Scarpia's twin desires to see Mario dead and Tosca in his arms.A black bead symbolizes the evil Scarpia, it is faceted because he is always working every angle.A blue bead encasing a pink flower represents Mario because Tosca is always in his heart.A passionate red bead with a pink flower represents Tosca (drawn from her first name Floria meaning flowered).Also, a story chart explaining the symbolism of the beads and charms accompanies every bracelet.
Some of the most important beads and charms are described below and you can see all of the symbolic descriptions on the spiral chart photo above or to the left. Laced with stunningly beautiful arias and heart piercing duets, the romance of this passionate love story and its tragic conclusion will be something you want to remember forever.Įach bead and charm of the Tosca Opera Bracelet represents a character or moment from the work.
THIS is Puccini’s Tosca, the tale of a talented singer pushed by the forces around her into an impossible position from which she lashes out with lethal results.įull of historical detail, Tosca’s situations and emotions could as easily be pulled from a current newspaper. Passion, jealousy, love, politics, religion, pure evil, torture, indecent proposals, betrayal, tragic sacrifice, stabbing, murder, suicide.
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