Press Acclaim

Columbus Underground

October 10, 2025
I've never seen a performance that left me any more stunned... It's a definitive creation of a role women will be clamoring to play for decades.

The Marginalian

October 5, 2025
It was a pleasure to read the final verse of the eight-part poem at the catacombs of the Green-Wood Cemetery as part of the live performance of composer Paola Prestini’s breathtaking record Houses of Zodiac with Paola’s partner Jeffrey Zeigler on transcendent cello.

Blogcritics

October 5, 2025
The continually fascinating music proceeds...a breathtaking conclusion to a truly original event that took in the definitions of concert, dance, and theater.

Interludes

October 4, 2025
An intoxicating and decidedly avant-garde soundscape — complex, often cryptic, and emotionally potent — that encourages listeners to meditate on the mysteries of life’s winding and murky journey and the inherent divinity of our humanity.

PBS NEws Hour

July 10, 2025
The opera titled "Sensorium Ex" is both art and advocacy, aimed at giving new voice and opportunities to the disabled, using A.I. to benefit, rather than harm, and changing the world of opera itself. "Sensorium Ex" is a new opera that is pushing boundaries by using AI to assist performers with disabilities.

Forbes

June 16, 2025
A monumental disruption in the fusion of art and technology. [Sensorium Ex] fuses 3D sensing, artificial intelligence, disability solutions, operatic talent and artistic creativity to deliver a groundbreaking performance.

Opera Wire

May 13, 2025
The musical composition wove together historical moments in a beautiful tapestry of unified force designed to intoxicate the mind...The message of this performance will echo along the human journey for generations to come!

Poison Put to Sound

May 7, 2025
Though 'Port(al)' was written for young singers, there was nothing toned-down or unsophisticated about it...'Port(al)' is an anti-war requiem

Oberon's Grove

May 4, 2025
...exceptionally well written...Prestini is unafraid to take risks concerning the magnitude or moving parts of a production, and those risks certainly paid off for an inspiring performance of 'Port(al)'

Vogue

May 2, 2025
a sprawling, ambitious, innovative new collaborative production

Opera Magazine

April 1, 2025
A beguiling blend of elements drawn from folk, contemporary classical and 18th-century Baroque music, combined with improvisatory passages, drones, jazz harmonic structures and live electronics.

Opera Wire

February 5, 2025
This work is everything dreamed and imagined, produced and performed with utmost care, consciousness and soul. “Primero Sueño” lights the way forward for all.

Observer

January 29, 2025
A deeply satisfying blend of musical styles that are alternatingly gentle, mystical and joyous.

Bachtrack

January 26, 2025
Timeless and otherworldly and, somehow, boldly, a product of New York City.

Opera Canada

October 8, 2024
Each shift in Prestini’s score was arresting.