La Venexiana
La Venexiana (founded 1995) is an Italian early music ensemble founded and led by Claudio Cavina, an Italian countertenor and conductor. Cavina studied in Bologna with the American singer and musicologist Candace Smith, and then with the Swiss baritone Kurt Widmer and Belgian countertenor and conductor René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, then appeared regularly as a countertenor soloist and in choral works. La Venexiana, taking its name from an anonymous comedy La Venexiana ("The Venetian Girl", c.1537), was created to focus on the core four- and five-voice madrigal repertory of Sigismondo d'India, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Luca Marenzio, Barbara Strozzi, Gesualdo da Venosa, and Claudio Monteverdi. The ensemble has later broadened to be the base of Cavina's productions and recordings of operas by Monteverdi and Francesco Cavalli. With Cavina's increasing focus on opera, members of the ensemble have concurrently formed La Compagnia del Madrigale which has continued the Gesualdo series on the Glossa label.
Genre: opera, early-music, baroque, madrigal, renaissance, choral, early-music-ensemble
Copyright Verification
- CopyrightID (CopyrightChains tx_hash): 0x0b9255cb6e30cdccb7e7ca68b8ba81e2e7c9914be19cf90226946f2caec20e0d
- Status: registered
- Registered: 2026-06-12T12:49:17+00:00
- Explorer: https://explorer.copyrightchains.com/tx/0x0b9255cb6e30cdccb7e7ca68b8ba81e2e7c9914be19cf90226946f2caec20e0d
Top Tracks
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Sinfonia
- Giunto a la tomba
- Vezzosi augelli
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act III Scene 8: Finale: Pur ti miro (Poppea, Nerone)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act I Scene 9: Son risoluto, insomma (Nerone, Seneca)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act I Scene 3: Signor, deh, non partire! (Poppea, Nerone)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Prologue: Amore: Deh, nasconditi, oh Virtu (Fortuna, Virtu)
- Langue, geme, HWV 188 (18th c.)
- Artemisia: Act I: Dubbia m'appar (Meraspe, Ramiro, Artemia)
- Artemisia: Act I: Sinfonia - Dure selci (Artemisia, Eurillo, Indamoro)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act II Scene 3: Amici, e giunta l'ora (Seneca, Famigliari)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act I Scenes 12-13: Otton, torna in te stesso! (Ottone, Drusilla)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act I Scene 11: Ad altri tocca in sorte (Ottone, Poppea, Arnalta)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act I Scene 10: Come dolci, signor, come soavi (Poppea, Nerone)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act I Scene 4: Speranza tu mi vai (Poppea, Arnalta)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act I Scene 2: Chi parla? Chi parla? (Ottone, Soldati)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Act I Scene 1: E pure io tonrno qui, qual linea al centro (Fortuna)
- Cruda Amarilli
- Ah dolente partita
- Qual musico gentil
Full machine-verifiable record (JSON-LD, dual-chain proof): https://artists.proofprofile.net/api/v1/bot/artist/851884