Veteran conductor Mario Venzago has been active in his native Switzerland, across Europe, and in the U.S., where he was partly trained. From 2010 to 2021, he was the conductor of Switzerland's Bern Symphony Orchestra, and he remains active as a guest conductor. In 1992, he conducted a recording of Othmar Schoeck's opera Venus. After a series of conducting posts, Venzago moved to the Bern Symphony Orchestra in 2010, remaining there until 2021 and continuing as an honorary conductor. He led the Bern Symphony in a series of Bruckner symphony recordings that incorporated historical performance techniques. By 2023, when Venzago conducted the Singapore Symphony in a program of film scores, his recording catalog comprised more than 35 items.