It’s been a long road for an Italian handbag designer who is setting up business in Santa Fe and launching her first product to coincide with the opening of The Santa Fe Opera’s Lucia Di Lammermoor.

The initial handbag, the Lucia Clutch, set to be launched June 29 with the opening of the Italian opera, is an embossed leather pressed on a hand-carved wooded mold with a coral color that matches the Santa Fe night sky in summer, said Vera Tucci, founder of the handbag fashion company, Italisan.