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Feb 19, 2019
The Elixir of Love: Nostalgia in Opera
On January 29th with our Opera in Conversation, we discussed the power of 80’s Pop Culture, pop culture in general, and nostalgia, in honor of Opera Omaha’s upcoming production of The Elixir of Love (set in the 1980’s in all its glory) with the owner of Pop Culture Exchange, Candy Pacheco. Our rendition of The Elixir of Love taps into very current trends of covet towards fashion and styles of the past with costumes that are straight out of Grease and Clueless. We recognize each of the characters for the tropes that they represent, and in spite of having seen them before, continue to want them replicated. Candy Pacheco has bu...
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