Overview
- Venezi said in a July 31 interview that she will focus on international work, confirming festival dates in Georgia and an autumn debut conducting Verdi's La Traviata in Novosibirsk.
- Her appointment as musical director of Teatro La Fenice on September 22, 2025 generated internal unrest, including orchestra and chorus agitation, protests and strikes that sustained public controversy.
- The Fondazione Teatro La Fenice formally ended all collaboration with Venezi on 26 April and she has legally contested that termination, leaving the dispute open in the Italian courts.
- In recent remarks she acknowledged mistakes in how parts of the Fenice episode were handled, said institutional calls to 'resist' influenced her choices, and expressed a wish to 'forget Venice' and move on.
- The immediate stakes are both legal and professional: the court outcome will determine whether her contract ends permanently, and her foreign engagements will test whether she can rebuild her career and professional relationships abroad.