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: Claudio Monteverdi
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.
57. La favola d’Orfeo (Claudio Monteverdi)
The earliest opera still regularly performed.
The Opera Scribe 