Adaptations
A successful stage version of the novel by Stanislaus Stange was produced in 1900. Film versions of the novel were produced in 1912 and 1925. A 1951 version directed by Mervyn LeRoy was nominated for eight academy awards. The novel was also the basis for a 1985 mini-series starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Nero and a 2001 Polish mini-series directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
Jean Nouguès composed an opera based on the novel, to a libretto by Henri Caïn; it was premiered in 1909. Feliks Nowowiejski composed an oratorio based on the novel, performed for the first time in 1907, and then his most popular work.
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