Paola Prestini's 'Sensorium Ex' was featured on NPR's Weekend Morning Edition.

The centerpiece of the 2025 festival is the world premiere of Sensorium Ex, composed by Paola Prestini with a libretto by Brenda Shaughnessy, directed by Jerron Herman & Jay Scheib; and the AI-driven Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC) App, Sensorium AI, developed by VisionIntoArt and Luke DuBois at the NYU Ability Project.

In January 2025, Paola Prestini and Magos Herrera premiered their immersive co-composed opera Primero Sueño at the Met Cloisters, the work's premiere received rave reviews from critics.

Paola Prestini and Magos Herrera speak with NY1's Philip Klint about the world premiere of "Primero Sueño" at the Met Cloisters

Paola Prestini, Magos Herrera, and Louisa Proske speak with Elizabeth Vincentelli about the world premiere of "Primero Sueño"

Creative Capital awarded artist grants totaling $2.45 million to 55 artists to create 49 new works across the U.S. on the basis of their groundbreaking formal and conceptual approaches.

Paola will receive a Visionary Award during the Composers Now Festival Opening Event at National Sawdust on January 29.

Performances feature Herrera as Sor Juana, Leipzig-based vocal ensemble Sjaella, and a team of virtuoso multi-instrumentalists, directed by Louisa Proske with costumes, props and wearable technology by Andrea Lauer

Staged In the Vast Agger Fish Building, Brooklyn Youth Chorus’s Most Ambitious and First Independently-Produced Work to Date Considers the Global Significance of Port Cities and Leads Audiences Through a Musical Tour of the Navy Yard’s Past

Fred Plotkin, pleasure activist, and passionate opera expert, speaks each Friday with fascinating people in the music world. He is the author of Opera 101 and Classical Music 101 and leads opera symposia for New York Times Journeys. In this episode, Fred speaks with composer Paola Prestini.