Nero was the first historical figure to appear in an opera. He would probably have been delighted. He was, after all, an opera singer himself.
104. L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
Category: 17th century opera
103. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi)
Il ritorno d'Ulisse is rather like a Shakespearean Romance: a part-melancholic, part-comic story of gods, castaways, shipwrecks, transformations, perilous voyages, and disguises, which ends, after many years, with a family reunited.
102. Euridice (Jacopo Peri)
The oldest surviving opera.
The Opera Scribe 