The Prismatist, an online literary journal, has published two of Tony’s essays about the November 2020 election.
To read Thoughts After the Recent Election, a reflection on the tribalization of America, click here.
To read America After the Vaccine: A Post-Election Nightmare click here.
To read and hear other works by Tony, click here.
Read MoreMy Covid-19: A Journey Through Hope and Fear, Tony’s follow-up podcast to Living in Two Epicenters, is live.
To listen to this warm, sometimes funny, often harrowing physical and psychological journey filled with unexpected twists and turns click here.
For more information about Tony’s podcasts and writings, click here.
Read MoreTony gave a presentation on Vision for the Festival Musica sull’Acqua’s web series The Hero’s Journey. Tony and four other Festival artists explore five aspects of the hero’s quest and how they have affected their inner artistic lives: Talent, Vision, Tenacity, Creativity and Listening.
To watch the replay click here. (Tony was live on Monday, July 20 at Noon (12:00) EDT / 6:00PM (18:00) CEST.)
For more information about the series, click here.
Read MoreTony joined Academy of Sacred Drama artistic director, Jeremy Rhizor to discuss incorporating movement into Baroque oratorios which had remained unheard for over 300 years. Tony became the Academy’s movement director in 2019. He works with the singers and musicians to use their bodies to evoke the characters and emotions of the music.
To watch the replay click here.
Read MoreTony Lopresti reflects on what it is to live in the two Coronavirus pandemic epicenters, New York City and Lombardy, Italy and his two lives as a mime artist and a former member of the New York City Police Department.
Read MoreTony, Movement Director of the Academy of Sacred Drama, joined Artistic Director and violinist Jeremy Rhizor and a profoundly talented cast of baroque musicians and singers for the modern premiere of The Victim of Love - February 21 and 23, 2020. None knew that the impending pandemic would make this their last live concert of the year.
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Read MoreMuMo - Music + Movement, founded by Tony and his partner, Italian violinist Francesco Senese, presented four showcase performances at the 2020 APAP Conference (Association of Performing Arts Professionals), an annual international meeting in New York City of performing artists, artists representatives and venue managers.
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Read MoreAt the end of August, Tony joined the Academy of Sacred Drama at the idyllic Avaloch Farm Music Institute for a weeklong residency. With Academy Artistic Director Jeremy Rhizor and a dozen baroque musicians and singers, Tony led twice-daily movement workshops and began rehearsing with the singers to embellish their performances with movement and gesture for upcoming oratorios in New York.
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Read MoreIn France this summer at the ecumenical monastic community of Taizé, Tony led a cross-cultural, diverse group of people in a vigorous physical workshop designed to help them enter physically into well-known Gospel stories and themes. The physicality leads participants to experience more profoundly the emotions of the characters and to develop a contemporary human understanding of the story’s themes and lessons.
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Read MoreTony conducted a classical mime masterclass with the 65-member MACH Orchestra during the Festival Musica sull’Acqua on Lake Como this summer. MACH (Music Art Creativity Hub), funded by the Hilti Foundation, brings internationally renowned musicians together with young musicians at the beginnings of their careers for a week of intense rehearsal and training leading up to a major concert. Click for photos. Click for video. Click to read more.
“What Tony does with the group physically and in silence is totally orchestral.”
- Giorgio Senese, Director, Experimental School of Music "Roberto Goitre", Colico, Lake Como
Read MoreTony performed with Irene Valentini, Francesco Senese and the musicians of the Festival Musica sull’Acqua to Reynaldo Hahn’s Festivities for a Nighttime Party (“Divertissement pour une fete de nuit”). In eight minutes they presented the entire lives, loves and struggles of two soulmates. Click for photos.
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