Category:Nero--music (subject)

Works of music related to Nero

Overview

Since the 17th century Nero has been a frequent character in Italian operas and oratorios. The emphasis In operas, starting with Monteverdi's Incoronazione di Poppea, is on Nero as Emperor, his rise and fall and relationship with his mother Agrippina and his wife Poppaea. The oratorios instead focus on the persecution of the early Christians by Nero. Only in Boito's opera Nerone the two aspects are combined.

Bibliography

• Gesine Manuwald, Nero in Opera: Librettos as Transformations of Ancient Sources (Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 2013)