La Venexiana is one of the leading madrigal ensembles on the international stage today. The group attempts to convey in its interpretations the theatricality, subtleties of language, and the celebration of contrasts between the refined and the popular, the sacred and profane. It has established a new style in Italian early music performance: a warm, truly Mediterranean blend of textual declamation, rhetorical color and harmonic refinement that the Frankfurter Allgemeine has described as "an intoxicating mix of rich vocal sound and eloquent expression of text." Said the Sunday Times, they "perform with an ultra-refined passion, introducing a varied palette of voices and respond to the inflexions of the poetry with consummate flexibility."  In the view of The New York Times, their approach "has the effect of taking Monteverdi's madrigals out of the museum and presenting them as living, vital works."  The Guardian's comments on their recent Orfeo recording: "Anyone who has heard any of La Venexiana's superlative recordings of the Monteverdi madrigals will know how dramatically alive their approach to this music can be. Every bar of L'Orfeo had that same special charge, one that non-native Italian singers can never quite match."

By now, La Venexiana has performed at numerous major festivals and concert halls around the world--Barcelona, Brussels, Utrecht, Strasbourg, Amiens, San Sebastien, Mexico City, Bogota, Tokyo--as well as at the Musikverein's Golden Hall in Vienna, De Singel in Antwerp, and the Brugges Festival. In the United States, it has performed in e.g. New York City, Ann Arbor, Chicago, St. Paul, St. Louis, Houston, Tucson,  San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle.
 

La Venexiana started recording in 1996, and has recorded for the Opus 111, the Cantus label. Since 1998, it has been recording exclusively for Glossa. Its recordings of madrigals by Monteverdi, D’India, Luzzaschi, Marenzio and Gesualdo, have won it much notice and critical acclaim, including the Cannes Classical Award 2002 and the Gramophone Award 2001, which proclaimed it the "new Orpheus of the Italian Madrigal Repertoire." Other awards include the Diaspon d’Or for September 1999, November 1999, and October 2001, the Editors Choice of Repertoire of December 1999, the Prix Cecilia 1999, the Prix Fondazione Cini Venice 1999, the Prix Amadeus 2000, and CDs of the Month by Luister (Holland) and Goldberg (Spain). In addition,  the group received the Gramophone Award 2001 and the Cannes Classical Award 2002 and, more recently, the Grand Prix du Disque 2003.