Fernando de Orbea
Peruvian playwright
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Fernando de Orbea was a playwright from the Viceroyalty of Peru, whose family held government positions. He is known for writing one of the few surviving plays from what is now Colombia, titled La conquista de Santa Fé de Bogotá. This play, possibly first performed in 1710, features arias and recitative in both Spanish and Quechua, drawing inspiration from Virgil's Aeneid and colonial chronicles to depict the Spanish conquest.1
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