Nerone (Nero) is an opera in three acts by Pietro Mascagni from a libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, based on the 1872 play Nerone by Pietro Cossa. Most of Mascagni's music was drawn from a failed project Vistilia (from 1907)[1] – the music made to 'fit' a wholly unconnected libretto.
It received its first performance on 16 January 1935 at La Scala, Milan, which was conducted by Mascagni himself.
| Atte | soprano | Lina Bruna Rasa |
| Claudio Cesare Nerone | tenor | Aureliano Pertile |
| Clivio Rufo | bass | Duilio Baronti |
| Egloge | soprano | Margherita Carosio |
| Epafrodìto | baritone | Fabio Ronchi |
| Faònte | tenor | Gino Del Signore |
| Icèlo | tenor | Giuseppe Nessi |
| Menècrate | baritone | Apollo Granforte |
| Vinìcio | baritone | Aristide Baracchi |
| Nevio | tenor | Ettore Parmeggiani |
| Pastore | tenor | Nello Palai |
| Basilio | bass | Tancredi Pasero |
| Petronio | bass | Giuseppe Noto |
| Mucrone | bass | Luciano Donaggio |
| Eulogio | bass | Franco Zaccarini |